I keep thinking that I should be able to put the Tea Party to bed. For some reason, I get it in my head, from time to time, that the fever pitch of tea bagging is over and that history has already recorded it as a temporary, reactionary, populist wannabe movement from a frightened fringe. …
Month: May 2012
Bruce Braley for Congress!
We have a very important race for Congress here in eastern Iowa. Congressman Bruce Braley will be challenged in District 1 by the Republican nominee Ben Lange, who barely lost to Braley in 2010. Lange benefitted from 1 million dollars from the American Future Fund to invest in negative advertising. Let me be perfectly clear: Bruce Braley has been a shining light…
Trayvon was my son, too.
I’ve been staying away from writing about the controversy surrounding Trayvon Martin because I wanted to hear all of the facts first, but today I realized that any new information that may come out is irrelevant to how I feel about this tragedy. There is a serious illness in our society that is growing more…
Fixing a Flat
Taxes. What a concept. Is there any way to satisfy those who believe progressive taxation is a more fair distribution of burden, those who believe the only fair formula is that everyone should pay the same percentage, and those who think that we should abolish federal taxes altogether and pay as we play? Personally, I believe…
Welfare Queens and NyQuil
I had a dream where America settled down for a day. We all took a collective breath and did some research about social spending along with doing a little math. My dream was inspired by a news report that I saw, as I was nodding off, about how a big part of the budget controversy,…