Author: Forgiven

Stupid Is, As Stupid Does

I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them. – President George Bush The one thing you have to admit about the emergence of all of the teabagger candidates is that the...

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Democrats Winning Strategy

History isn’t on the GOP’s side, either. If keeping the top marginal tax rate at 35 percent–the rate under Bush, and the rate that Republicans are fighting to preserve–spurs so much hiring, why...

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Why The Beck Event Didn’t Need Politics

Palin likened the rally participants to the civil rights activists from 1963. She said the same spirit that helped them overcome oppression, discrimination and violence would help this group as well.”We are worried about...

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Citizens Against Taxing Big Oil

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. – (attributed to) Abraham Lincoln One evening I was watching the news minding...

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The Right Wing War Against The Future

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” –...

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