DIDN'T go to a rally today to protest Gov. Snyder's tax plan...
I planned on making it; unfortunately, my 5-year old boy got sick and had to stay home from preschool, so I was on Daddy Duty today instead. HOWEVER, I am very happy to report that, judging from...
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Michigan Seniors Step Up, Chanting "It’s not fair - Recall Rick ..."
It's enough to inspire hope again, when all hope seemed to be missing in action ... caught between rampant Unemployment ... and the Tea Party Fire Sales to dismantle America's way of life ... Today...
View ArticleDefend the Dream Rallies in Ohio and Across the Nation
Tonight I went to a Defend the Dream rally sponsored by MoveOn that took place in Steubenville, Ohio. For those of you who don't know, Steubenville is a small city in eastern Ohio. Like Weirton,...
View ArticleWe are One with Labor
The fate of the middle class cannot be divorced from the fate of unions and labor. Our destiny is inextricably linked together. A strong labor movement would mean that the middle class would be much...
View ArticleSherrod Brown (D-OH) Much Safer
I'm not sure whether if it is because of the "Midwestern Revolt" or because of the improving economy, but either way, it's great news for us: http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/... From the great...
View ArticleBoy Asked To Be “Slave” At School
President Obama is president, but inside our American schools some educators are still teaching as if we were in segregated America, per this recent incident at an Ohio school.
View ArticlePPP Nails It. Our A$$es Were Handed To Us On A Silver Platter. Let's Not...
Crossposted from The People's View During the 2010 mid-term election, a lot of Democrats did not get out to vote and as a result our asses were handed to us on a silver platter. However, a lot of...
View ArticleKasich's Little Budget of Horrors
Well, actually, his big budget of horrors — nearly 800 pages of horror after horror after horror, unveiled yesterday to anger on the left and silence on the right (It's been pointed out that most of...
View ArticleOhio CAN have a do-over: How to throw the bums out This Year
Kos wrote in Ohio wishes it could have do-over in governor's race that Ohio is having major buyer's remorse over the election of John "Lehman Brothers" Kasich as governor. Due to citizen disgust at...
View ArticleFaithful America Fights Ohio's Immoral Budget
Cross-posted from Bold Faith Type While Wisconsin governor Scott Walker made headlines nationwide this month by denying teachers and nurses the right to negotiate for fair benefits and working...
View ArticleTime for some Kasich bashing
Mr. John Kasich is the governor of my great state of Ohio. I refuse to call him my governor because I feel towards him and deep and abiding enmity that will surpass my enmity towards the last...
View ArticleThis Is What Class War Looks Like: A National Campaign, State by State
The wealthiest 5% of Americans control 72% of America's financial wealth. The bottom 80% control only 7% of the nation's financial wealth. The richest 400 Americans have more combined wealth than...
View ArticleOH-Pres: Obama leads in Ohio
The political tide has turned substantially in Ohio thanks to the missteps of Governor John Kasich. Not only is senior Senator Sherrod Brown well ahead, but so is President Barack Obama - by margins...
View ArticleDr. King and collective bargaining
An increasingly frequent meme among Republicans in Wisconsin and elsewhere is that public employee unions erroneously refer to their collective bargaining "rights." No, shout the Repubs, collective...
View ArticleI propose that the new mantra to be...
YOU'RE FIRED! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU'RE FIRED!!! Everytime these teapublicans start the talk, YOUR FIRED! Make a speech, YOU'RE FIRED! Try to talk about the tax cuts for the wealthy, YOU'RE FIRED!...
View ArticleDon't let these 'Democrats' get away with it either
I am very glad that the political backbone has stiffened up in opposition to Republican led efforts to strip bargaining rights or introduce draconian budget cuts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. But I...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich channeled $125K to Hate Group targeting 3 Iowa Supreme Court...
Newt Gingrich gave the repulsive anti-LGBT hate group the American Family Association $1245,000 to target three Iowa Supreme Court Justices who voted in favor of LGBT equality, Chief Justice Marsha...
View ArticleJohn Kasich's Raid on Ohio, Part 6 (with poll)
Part 5 of my series looked at John Kasich's overthrow of the State Board of Education, purging both Republican and Democratic moderates, and politicizing a formerly non-political state organization...
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Why Teachers Like Me Support Unions
Cross-posted at edusolidarity.us I am a teacher. There was a time when those words, when spoken, would automatically elicit respect and deference. There was a time when people would openly thank...
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