At some point, we must say, “No.” At some point, we must recognize that every member of Al Queda or ISIL we kill comes back to haunt us – in the form of five more recruits. Five more people who hate us. Who are determined to pay us back. Who

Capitalism is endemic to the American way of life. Since the earliest days of its founding, the United States has valued, praised, and encouraged “free enterprise” as a hallmark of individual initiative and a key element in citizens’ rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All that changed

Artie: What the hell are you thinking? Is your memory really that short? Your male pride that excessive? Or your desire to become the pet of the government that irresistible? I gotta tell you, Junior. When the rumors first surfaced up here on Wednesday, I had my doubts. My own

From the “Love Me I’m A Liberal” department: The New Yorker is reporting that today’s firing of The New York Times’ first female Executive Editor, Jill Abramson, occurred because she was “pushy” with the paper’s masters er, CEO and owner. Specifically, Abramson demanded equal pay for equal work, and Art

Go to GoodReads, search on Hunter S. Thompson, and you’ll get first-page results like this: Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used

Tired of the DNC filing up your mailbox? Christ knows I am. So I’m helping these morons figure it out: Not that it’ll change anything: If the DNC had any intention of giving a shit about the distinction between words and deeds, we’d have smelled it a long time ago.

A conference on building progressing power, duplicating the highly successful one held last month in Duluth, is under way today in Minneapolis. Watch via Livestream here. If you are in the Twin Cities, try to attend this free event, at 4200 Cedar Avenue. occupymn on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free Activists

For years which have become decades, Democratic candidates have run on improving working conditions for all Americans, starting with better pay. All we have to do, they’ve told us, is elect them. But when we have, one of two things always happens: Nothing, or Far too little, much too late.

UPDATE: WEDNESDAY JAN 29, 2 P.M. EST: Building on the Duluth forum mentioned in the original text (below) Minneapolis will play host to another forum on “Building Progressive Political Power” on February 15. More info can be found on the event’s Facebook page, here. ORIGINAL POST: The New Progressive Alliance is

When people ask my religion I usually respond, “Recovering Catholic.” If there is one faith that has mastered the subjugation of its followers by any means necessary (fear, guilt, major motion pictures) AND the inserting of itself into socio-political debates when frankly nobody asked for its damned opinion, it is Catholicism.