This Voting Measure Has Got to Go

This Voting Measure Has Got to Go

No one can deny that voting is a civic duty, right? Well that depends on who you are. The reality is that many powerful people don’t want certain folks to vote. They go to extremes to discourage those folks from voting and even harass them to keep away from the...
Engineering Away Consumer and States Rights

Engineering Away Consumer and States Rights

In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption buried Pompeii in ash. Nearly 2,000 years later, an eruption of hot legislative ash is spewing from Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) is threatening U.S. consumers. Pompeo is the right-wing Congress critter from the Ideological Republic of...
Waiter, Am I Subsidizing Your Pay?

Waiter, Am I Subsidizing Your Pay?

Late April doesn’t just bring flocks of tourists to Washington. It’s when hundreds of members of the National Restaurant Association — a.k.a. the “other NRA” — swarm Capitol Hill for two intensive days of lobbying. With a $65 million budget and...
This Week in OtherWords: April 16, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: April 16, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson tells “vegangelicals” they’d become better missionaries for a healthy-eating lifestyle if they just stopped preaching and Amanda Ufheil-Somers suggests that the United States and Saudi Arabia end what she...