boiler emissions.jpg The U.S. EPA has bowed to pressure from Republican members of Congress and relaxed the proposed rules for boiler emissions. By allowing utility industry companies to make “upgrades”…
NOAA.jpg This week, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives sent a strong message to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – they’re not concerned about climate change. The NOAA…
Looks like it. WASHINGTON — Republicans have already begun campaigning on the Super Committee’s impending failure by blaming Democrats in a blast email Monday morning. “Without fail, Democrats have refused…
This and that for your evening reading.- Erin offers up his suggestions for the Saskatchewan NDP's renewal process:The next NDP leader will presumably be met with a barrage of negative…
You gotta love Republicans. In Michigan, the Republican-heavy Senate has passed a new anti-bullying bill that promotes bullying by giving perpetrators the ‘moral conviction’ right to bully on behalf of…
I came across a piece from 1967, written three years after extremists began taking over the Republican Party, with the nomination of Barry Goldwater to run for president. He took…
Watching the Republican presidential hopefuls duke it out to determine who is the most absurd, I'm reminded of how far this party has fallen since the days of Eisenhower. I…
Boys ‘n’ girls, I’d like to introduce a young political science and history student from the US who would like to contribute posts about American politics from time to time…
This video demonstrates that nothing has been done in more than 25 years to close the tax loopholes that Reagan supposedly wanted to close in 1985. Obama is saying the…
Via Think Progress, Bill Clinton, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, blasting the Republican Party for supporting denial of climate science: “The best thing you could do is…
Mother Jones has a must-read post on something that is no mystery but needs to be said. Western evangelicals like Stephen Harper, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann et al have a…
For a while, I was feeling very energized about the NDP leadership race. We on the left were going to get six months or so to have a real and…
On February 15, 1983, the New York Times ran a headline: Reagan Misstatements Getting Less Attention.Ronald Reagan was not only the first American President to bring the Religious Right into…
There’s a reason the Republicans and Conservatives seem obstructionist both while in government and in opposition. Prorogation at every turn in Canada, and filibustering every routine bill in the States…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper tries just to stifle his worst instincts. Warning: Canadian prime ministers may not be exactly as illustrated. If you’re too young to get this, just don’t…
Harper Government: Changing our genes and caffeine. Arnie the Governator was right! There are girly men. Do you know what’s causing them, and causing girls to hit puberty before their…
Paul Krugman calls out the U.S.' Republican Party for holding the country hostage until its demands are met. Lucky our own right-wingers are so much more reasonable.
Truly. Applicable for both the Tea-baggers and non-tea-baggers alike. Enjoy, boys ‘n’ girls! Happy Thursday!
In this clip from The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur responds to CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria. Zakaria criticize’s American liberals for their strong dissatisfaction with President Obama, saying among other things that…
Yep, Orwell’s Bastard has it right. I will go further in guessing that President Obama is not just a wimpocrat, he’s actually a Rethuglican who only became a wimpocrat, probably…
