Month: July 2010
What Has the Past 12 Years Done to America? Killed the Middle Class, for One Thing.
    Ron    July 25, 2010        
    
    Many who look beyond the insane rhetoric of never ending lowered taxes for the super-rich, while insisting that Americans work until they drop dead rather…
Reinstate Shirley Sherrod at USDA. Reject the Dog-Whistle Racism of the Radical Right
    Ron    July 21, 2010        
    
    I just posted this note via the contact form at the White House, regarding the forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod from her USDA position. If…
Posted in Separation Church and State
    Juan Coal on Palin on the Ground Zero Mosque vs. the Founding Fathers
    Ron    July 19, 2010        
    
    Juan Cole, who regularly publishes some of the most commentary available on the Middle East on his blog, Informed Comment, has published one of the…
Local Booksellers, National Trade Associations, ACLU, and Others Sue to Block Internet Censorship Law
    Ron    July 13, 2010        
    
    Signed into law in April by Governor Patrick and effective today, the law, Chapter 74 of the Acts of 2010, imposes severe restrictions on the…
Paul Krugman on “Punishing the Jobless”
    Ron    July 5, 2010        
    
    Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman published a column in the New York Times on July 4th that relates directly to my posts here of…
 
