Jim Moss

Stumbling from infancy to toddlerhood, The Coffee Party held more than 350 meetings of local chapters around the United States on Saturday.

Tags: coffee party, tea party

Sadly, it appears that Barack Obama is unwilling or unable to take on corporate America. He talks tough, but accomodates when the chips are really on the table – as the health care debate has conveniently demonstrated. More and more Americans are waking up to the fact that with a few notable exceptions, both Republicans and Democrats in Washington are basically employees of corporate lobbyists.

The Texas Board of Education is considering removing Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum and “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.” And that’s not all.

Tags: curriculum, education, revisionist history, Texas, Thomas Jefferson

Would the Democrats be better off making a list of the ten most important things to accomplish through health care reform, and then committing to getting them passed piece by piece?

Tags: health care reform, incremental health care reform

Kansas City school officials promised Thursday to shut down nearly half the district’s schools by the start of classes in the fall.

Tags: education, Kansas City, Public Schools

More GOP than Democratic lawmakers use Twitter to communicate with constituents and the news media, according to a new Congressional Research Service study.

Tags: facebook, Republicans, twitter

Some interesting stats on the American worker and retirement savings, courtesy of CNN.

Tags: retirement, savings

The Supreme Court will decide whether the father of a fallen Marine is entitled to damages from Westboro Baptist Church. The infamous church in Topeka, KS routinely pickets the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. They make the claim that God is punishing the United States through military deaths because it tolerates homosexuals.
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Tags: First Amendment, Hate Speech, Supreme Court, Westboro Baptist Church

Tom DeLay thinks that unemployment benefits cause people not to look for work. There is a kernel of truth to this belief, but it completely misses the larger reality of the situation.

Tags: Tom DeLay, unemployment

The Missouri Senate opened debate Thursday on a bill to replace the state’s income tax with a higher and broader sales tax. It’s an idiotic idea all around.

Tags: income tax, Missouri, poverty, sales tax, working class