Bailing out the super rich won’t help grow the economy. It will only further grow the monstrous gap between unemployed and struggling average American workers and the elite ranks of greedy CEOs — which is part of the problem in the first place

I don’t share White House Spokesperson Robert Gibbs’ outrage that the “professional left” is currently being too critical of President Obama. What I am outraged about is that the professional left wasn’t more critical of Obama a year ago.

The language of the Proposition 8 ruling is a victory for family diversity of all shapes and orientations. Yet the gay movement’s aim to expand the privileged category of marriage rather than formally redefine state marriage and extend all the rights and privileges of marriage to all family forms does little to dent the in-group/out-group superstructure in which homophobia and heteronormativity fester

If “populism” is really a coded critique for the lack of respect for and attention to real grassroots organizing and popular leadership development in the progressive movement, then I say “populism, yes”!

While some Democrats (not to mention the oligarchic Republicans) seriously debate whether to kill the Bush era tax cuts for the richest of the super rich, we’re forcing children across the nation to get their nutrients from Elmer’s Glue. That is, if the schools have enough money to buy glue.

I’m not confused by your nonsensical ideological narrow-mindedness. That I’ve come to expect. What I am confused by is how you are now casting your nonsensical ideological narrow-mindedness as protecting “Mama Grizzlies.” Aren’t you the one who hunts bears from helicopters

So what’s more interesting, I think, than pointing out the obvious existence of explicit racist extremists in the Tea Party is examining whether the Tea Party as a whole, by its very nature, is intentionally, implicitly built on racial resentment. In this regard, the NAACP resolution might be considered tame — it goes to great pains, as many other liberals have, to suggest that only a few folks in the Tea Party are racist but by no means the entire enterprise. I say: Not so fast…

Why is it that the Tea Party — the right-wing edge of the conservative political sphere — exerts a gravitational pull on the Republican party and the conservative mainstream while the United States Social Forum and the leaders and groups gathered here, who represent the left of the liberal mainstream, are disregarded as marginal and irrelevant — that is, if they’re regarded at all

In an election year marked by voters’ unprecedented distaste for incumbents, it is still remarkably difficult to be a challenger. Consider Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter’s race to unseat New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada.

To all those who blame the hundreds of thousands of families facing foreclosure for their predicament and argue that big businesses like Bank of America should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want, in the spirit of “free market” capitalism and the American way, you need to meet Edda Lope