1. 13 Apr


    Yunte Huang: If [young progressives] truly care about the left-wing ideals they espouse, they ought to mobilize for the man who — while hardly an ultra-liberal standard-bearer — is still likely to defend many principles held dear by progressives. The Republican, on the other hand, will dismantle them. Obviously, Obama has disappointed the Left. He is, after all, a politician. But he’s hardly the worst politician the Left could imagine. And come November, liberals ought to remember that. Read the full column.

    Yunte Huang:

    If [young progressives] truly care about the left-wing ideals they espouse, they ought to mobilize for the man who — while hardly an ultra-liberal standard-bearer — is still likely to defend many principles held dear by progressives. The Republican, on the other hand, will dismantle them. Obviously, Obama has disappointed the Left. He is, after all, a politician. But he’s hardly the worst politician the Left could imagine. And come November, liberals ought to remember that.

    Read the full column.

     

  2. 4 Oct



    The GOP fears losing in a fair fight, so the party is trying to rig the game through voter suppression, plain and simple.
    — 

    Steve Benen, Washington Monthly

    A wave of new Republican-driven election laws will make it harder for millions of eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012. The most significant restriction requires Americans in several states to present state-issued photo IDs when they vote. It is estimated that 3.3 million eligible voters in the affected states — Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin — don’t have such IDs now. The GOP insists the new rules were needed to stamp out voter fraud. The Left maintains these laws add up to a coordinated effort to suppress the Democratic vote.

     

  3. 14 Mar


    Have conservative blogs gone ‘brain dead’? In a blog post about his reading habits, liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman acknowledged that he doesn’t habitually peruse conservative websites, because he can’t think of any “that regularly provide analysis or information I need to take seriously.” Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic says that Krugman isn’t alone, and that the “brain dead right” is “paying a high cost for its unholy marriage to Limbaugh-style rhetoric.” It’s a lose-lose situation, says Kevin Drum at Mother Jones. The only reason to read the “loony blogs” is “entertainment value.” And, while the “non-insane conservatives” on the moderate right can make interesting points, they’re “so out of touch with mainstream conservatism” (which won’t concede that cutting taxes reduces revenue, or that climate change is man-made) that they feel irrelevant, too. More opinion here.

    Have conservative blogs gone ‘brain dead’?

    In a blog post about his reading habits, liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman acknowledged that he doesn’t habitually peruse conservative websites, because he can’t think of any “that regularly provide analysis or information I need to take seriously.” Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic says that Krugman isn’t alone, and that the “brain dead right” is “paying a high cost for its unholy marriage to Limbaugh-style rhetoric.”

    It’s a lose-lose situation, says Kevin Drum at Mother Jones. The only reason to read the “loony blogs” is “entertainment value.” And, while the “non-insane conservatives” on the moderate right can make interesting points, they’re “so out of touch with mainstream conservatism” (which won’t concede that cutting taxes reduces revenue, or that climate change is man-made) that they feel irrelevant, too.

    More opinion here.