More fun for the kids in Texas - yesterday it was homelessness, today it’s fight clubs for the institutionalized. Not long ago it was physical and sexual abuse in Texas Youth Commission jails. It’s about time some one in this state took a hard look at protections for our kids. Legislatio...

New statistics from the Class War this morning show that victims number 12.5 million. The unemployment numbers grow, the numbers that represent wounded and out of action in our economy. There are growing numbers of the economically wounded, and those numbers represent losses to the whole ‘real...

Matt Singer is keeping me honest: Health Care for America Now’s blog responded to what I wrote earlier this morning about the meaningful difference between Max Baucus’s healthcare plan and the Massachusetts plan, but there’s something in the HCAN writeup I can’t quite agree w...

The decision by the Supreme Court on Wyeth v. Levine contained several surprising elements. It was a setback for the previous maladministration’s attempts to end medical lawsuits by invocation of the ‘preemption doctrine’ which put state laws in abeyance when they conflict with fed...

SEIU has a great new video on the employee free choice act up: I personally wonder about the “scare tactics,” though. Are the people saying things like the Employee Free Choice Act will “destroy our civilization” saying this to scare the public, or do these people really mean...

The number of jobs being lost is an astonishing number, especially because what it represents is households faced with sudden, alarming, economic disasters. Each job lost represents a tilt into desperation. When a household makes a decision to buy something, a car or a house, or even the inevitable ...

This week, the health care reform fight moves forward. Since the election of Barack Obama, we have been in the momentum building portion of our campaign to win health care for all (see step 1 of our “steps to win”). Tomorrow, President Obama will make a speech to Congress and the nation,...

Attorney General Eric Holder’s speech to Justice Department employees urging the country to suck it up and have those hard conversations about race generated the predictable accusations from the pundit crowd, both conservative and liberal. Why is he still trying to make white people feel guilt...

As a last ditch attempt to stop the Solis confirmation, the group Americans for Limited Government, a so-called “grassroots organization” financed solely by a handful of wealthy conservatives, is pushing a bogus ethics complaint: Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson tod...

While browsing through some church choir books recently, I came across a song entitled “We Want America Back” - a popular contemporary Gospel song written by Jeff Steele.  A sampling of its lyrics: Something is wrong with America. She once held the Bible as her conscience and guide. B...