Progress Michigan blog posts.
If Democratic voters don’t turn out on Election Day, and independent voters help make a huge Republican wave on November 2, Big Oil and Big Coal will have won a stealth victory that will doom America to dependence on foreign oil and more greenhouse gas pollution for years to come. For that we would largely…
Those shadowy, right-wing front groups who have spent $80 million to buy a Republican takeover of Congress are now flooding hundreds of thousands of dollars into three Michigan races for seats held by Democrats. Yesterday, MoveOn.org issued a report, Buying Democracy,(see below) showing a corporate front group from Iowa, American Future Fund, has spent $506,761thus…
Image via Wikipedia Alright, the name is a bit of a misnomer, because what you’re about to read didn’t come from an actual viewer (since I’m not a television personality — I’m barely even a personality!) but from one of those random people on the same “fwd” list as I. We were both on the…
Sunday’s televised debate threw a rare spotlight on Rick Snyder, the kind he didn’t entirely control. Mostly what we heard from him was a blank pistol firing into an echo chamber–lots of empty noise repeated as meaningless sound bites like “values-based budgeting.” The format was narrow and didn’t allow for much real debate, and among…
The blog MassLive is saying the Boston Globe has a story about a suit alleging political sabotage involving Michigan-based Strategic National Consulting chief John Yob. Yob has several prominent Michigan Republican clients who have paid his firm more than $300,000 this election cycle. They are (with fees paid as of September 2010*): Rick Snyder for…
Image via Wikipedia When Doc Holliday said it (famously, at least to me, in the movie Tombstone, when the outlaw is deputized by Wyatt Earp) he said it with full recognition of the lie he was perpetuating. Doc Holliday, the smooth Southern killer, was not a man who believed in the law. He spent his…
Image via Wikipedia Forget for a moment that the Republican Pledge to America announced yesterday is utter nonsense if you try to make the math work. Economist Paul Krugman writes that the GOP pledge to end the Bush tax cuts would create an additional $3.7 trillion in debt over the next decade, a problem…
Image by Uncle Paul the Birdman: back injury “again” via Flickr About two weeks ago I decided it was time to go caffeine free. Now, some of you may be thinking, “Why the heck would you do that?” while others will remind me that, in moderation, caffeine is not a bad thing. I agree. However,…
Image by Getty Images via @daylife If you live under a rock, or just don’t watch “reality” television like Dancing With the Stars — a show that gathers already rich, privileged or just plain annoyingly famous people and pits them against each other in a dance competition — you may not know that Bristol, the…