The Disparity of it All

I, for one, am tired of the whole Jeremiah Wright thing. So this is not about him, really, but it uses events of the past few days as a springboard.

McCaincare Ain’t No Care

John McCain remembers the good old days and wants to bring them back — the good old days, that is, before World War II — at least as far as health insurance goes.

How the Death Penalty is Racist

Of all the arguments against the death penalty, the hardest to prove has been that it is biased based upon the defendant’s race. Not any more. 

But As For The Nooz in General

During the last great cultural clash some forty years ago, a college acquaintance pointed out why the United States didn’t need censorship. We were watching some lame dance troupe like the Doodletown Pipers jumping around on teevee to “Penny Lane.” In those days, Beatles’ songs had a countercultural signficance to us.

“That’s why we don’t need censorship,” my acquaintance said. “We can say anything in America. And the establishment eventually will do that to it!”

Fast forwarding to the present, the establishment doesn’t have to work so hard.

Labor Under Attack

(h/t MissLaura)

I was in D.C. a few years ago when Senator Ted Kennedy and Reps. George Miller and Peter King were introducing the most significant piece of labor legislation since — probably — Gerald Ford was president. I managed to get this snapshot.

Heroes Lodged Like Rats

Here’s a graph of reality. That money goes somewhere.

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Is It Incitement?

Well, I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t have one on retainer to answer impetuous questions, so I went to Ask A Lawyer and found this.

Congressional Dems Assure Us That Obama, Clinton, Are Full of Beans on Health Care

You know all that backing and forthing between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over the differences in their healthy care proposals? Ever think it might be worth the effort of trying to weigh the merits of their respective proposals, or do you just tell yourself it doesn’t much matter anyway?

Pennsylvania Primary Pugilism Postmortem

As if it needs another one? Well, why not?

So it turns out that professional wrestling and Pennsylvania presidential politics went together.

Senate Republicans: You Just Hold On There, Little Ladies

You remember Lilly Ledbetter? She’s the Dred Scott of women’s rights.