via Sunlight Network: Punch Clock Responses. If you are an employer, you want to know your employee is doing his job, not out back smoking crack, mugging some schmo, or getting jolly with a local hooker. Well, it seems that’s just about what some of our Congressmembers seem to have been up to. Advertisement The … Read more

Via International Herald Tribune: U.S. Senate majority leader calls for efforts to bring Taliban into Afghan government. Boy, this is going to hurt… I’m going to have to go out to the workshop, put my hand in the vise, and saw it off with a hack saw after I type this (with one hand, so … Read more

I’m encouraged that both Pederson and Giffords are demonstrating the importance of undermining the middle- to low-income appeal of GOP tax policy by offering populist programmes of their own. Pederson has proposed the bolder plan by recommending a revenue neutral 25% cut in payroll taxes (pdf). Now if Pederson’s IT team would just make the … Read more

This post is a magnet for pre-meeting discussion and resources for our inaugural meeting of Reading Liberally on Wednesday Oct. 4th at 7:30 PM at Bookmans on Speedway and Wilmot. We will be discussing John W. Dean‘s "Conservatives without Conscience". First, it is recommended that you have read the book. It is available at booksellers … Read more

The Democratic Party released a statement today demanding that Randy Graf return any money raised for him by Speaker Dennis Hastert, on the grounds that Hastert covered up a pedophillic sex scandal involving Florida Representative Foley for a year. "The Republican leadership has admitted that Dennis Hastert knew about Foley’s disturbing and dangerous behavior for … Read more

Thought provoking study of the damage done by the hetero lifestyle: The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths.

Jeff Latas has accepted the position of Chairman of the Sonora PDA. In recent years, southern Arizona Democrats has spawned a litter of competing, and often mutually antagonistic, progressive organizations. It is the classic pattern of American progressive politics becoming so fractious and divided by ideoogy and personality that the entire movement is mooted as … Read more