| Feb 5, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Mitchell Zimmerman, Khalil Bendib, and I weigh in on the Affordable Care Act and Jill Richardson ponders better ways to mark Valentine’s Day. On our blog, Karen Dolan sizes up the Farm Bill in verse. Do you want to make sure you...
| Feb 4, 2014 | Food / FarmingYou think bipartisan support is rare? Not when there’s cuts to poor people in there. The Farm Bill again cuts nutrition assistance And barely got any liberal resistance. More subsidies to support the Big Farmer Gets a signature from Barack...
| | Rights / DemocracyPresident Barack Obama’s support for the NSA’s domestic spying program prompted a critic to say: “Given the unique power of the state, it is not enough for leaders to say: ‘Trust us, we won’t abuse the data we collect.'” Oh wait,...
| Feb 2, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyWhatdya know? Chris Christie knew Cars wouldn’t go, They wouldn’t get through. Ex-pal Wildstein used his Authority, ‘Cuz vengeance, it seems, was Christie’s priority.
| Jan 29, 2014 | Environment / HealthIf President Barack Obama wants to make action on climate change a legacy of his administration, he better do a lot more in the next three years than his lackluster performance in this year’s State of the Union address. Instead of outlining an approach to build...