- Export-Import Debate Exposes Hillary as an Advocate of Corporate Welfare https://www.laprogressive.com/export-import-bank/ 7 comments politics
- Rubio Advisor: 'Trump Is a Fascist' https://www.laprogressive.com/trump-fascist/ 21 comments politics
- Kim Davis: Personal Beliefs and Public Duty https://www.laprogressive.com/kim-davis/ 7 comments politics
- Black Lives Matter Needs Justice, Not Lectures - "How condescending it is for a politician to tell suffering, oppressed people how to respond to their victimization, that they should engage in their activism in a docile, peaceful, and non-threatening manner — to white folks, that is." https://www.laprogressive.com/lecturing-black-lives-matter/ 26 comments politics
- Republicans for Bernie - "he tells us what’s wrong, and how to fix it, never ran a dirty campaign, so as a Republican, Marine vet, and Minister, I’m voting for Bernie Sanders.” https://www.laprogressive.com/republicans-for-bernie/ 1672 comments politics
- If the Tea Party Were Liberal: If liberals were doing to their country what extremist tea party Republicans are doing to theirs – it would be called unpatriotic. A whole tsunami of sound bites would sweep the country calling for the sabotage to stop. http://www.laprogressive.com/?p=57141 3 comments politics
- Democracy Is Messy: Every Member of Congress who votes against increasing the debt ceiling should be targeted for defeat in the 2012 election. If that is not successful in changing the makeup of Congress after 2012, I may follow the lead of my ancestor Pelatiah Everett, and begin a new revolution. http://www.laprogressive.com/?p=56209 3 comments politics
- The Myth of California’s Death Penalty: Out of more than 900 men and women sentenced to die in California only 13 have ever been executed. Victims’ family members are dragged through decades of appeals and hearings while they wait for an execution that rarely comes. http://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/myth-death-penalty/ 2 comments politics
- We're All Black Now: Corporate greed on the part of arms manufacturers has turned an obscure and anachronistic amendment dealing with militias into a license to kill, literally, on a massive scale. http://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/black-experience/ 5 comments politics
- Outside of the White House, is there an American anywhere who believes that U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan are essential to our national security — particularly when we have some 800 bases around the world ready to deploy troops at the drop of a bomb? http://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/afghan-drawdown/ 6 comments politics
- The 2012 Clown Brigade: Bill Maher recently described Michele Bachmann as the candidate for people who find Sarah Palin too intellectual. Wish I'd said that! http://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/gop-clown-brigade/ 4 comments politics
- Paul Ryan Still Doesn’t Get It: Scare tactics? Seniors have every right to be scared. His plan would eviscerate Medicare by privatizing it with vouchers that would fall further and further behind the rising cost of health insurance. http://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/paul-ryan/ 8 comments politics
- Voter ID: GOP’s Latest “Block the Vote” Effort: In a normal world, when you want to win an election, it’s all about “Get Out The Vote” efforts. But when your goal is to snatch victory from the gutter, “Block The Vote” will do. http://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/voter-id/ 40 comments politics
- Our Role in Incarceration Nation: Drug prohibition is the biggest failed policy in the history of the United States second only to slavery. http://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/jim-crow-role-incarceration-nation/ 12 comments politics
- Planned Parenthood and the Rape of American Women: The House’s vote to gut Planned Parenthood is a criminal act against poor and working class women and their families. http://www.laprogressive.com/gender-discrimination/planned-parenthood/ 8 comments reddit.com
- It's Still the Same Old Story—from Guns to Nuclear Weapons: Does the fact that nearly 100,000 Americans are shot with guns and nearly 10,000 Americans are killed with them each year really have no connection to the remarkable availability of guns in the United States? http://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/guns-nukes/ 13 comments politics
- The whole tenor of the next two years is going to feel like Bush never left office. The GOP will have de facto control over the nation's politics and agenda. If President Obama goes down the Clinton path of triangulating against his progressive base then he deserves to be a one-term president. http://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/stupid-politics-smart-administration-2/ 5 comments politics
- When the Chips are Down, Democrats Defend Blue Dogs: What good is defending a Democrat, who will simply give bi-partisan “cover” to right-wing forces of obstruction who want Obama to fail? http://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/democrats-defend-blue-dogs/ 5 comments politics
- I suggest a dramatic presidential shakeup, openly stated, clearly implemented, publicly announced in an October surprise, going to voters in November with a program to regain the mantle of change that the president championed in 2008, which would inspire independents and rally Democrats in 2010. http://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/third-party/ 12 comments politics
- Call it a new New Deal, call it socialism, call it democracy, call it what you will. But one thing is clear: American-style capitalism is eating the people alive, and now is the time to put it in check. http://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/poverty-rise/ 24 comments politics
- A properly functioning democracy begs for an informed populace, and America enjoys neither. And the tea party movement, the engine of excitement in the GOP, is anti-intellectual, as lynch mobs tend to be. http://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/evil-ideas/ 7 comments politics
- The Republican Party has embraced the movement to demonize Moslems with the same fervor with which it embraced the Beck-Palin program of “restoring honor” to the glory days of night-riding, segregated lunch counters and no citizenship for brown babies born in the United States. http://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/new-red-scare/ 3 comments politics
- The radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next generation. Don’t be surprised that by the time they can vote 18 years from now, the children born this year will take universal health care, clean energy, and gay marriage for granted. http://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/lessons-romfdr/ 27 comments politics
- Beyond the Grim Sleeper Case: Why do we continue to waste hundreds of millions of dollars on the death penalty even though it has never been proven to deter murderers and even though 1,000 killers get away with murder each year? http://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/cut-death-penalty/ 3 comments politics
- Citizens United case: Corporations are immortal. They don’t need health care, or minimum wages, or pensions, or food stamps. They don’t raise children and have families. They have no morality or ethics other than maximizing their profits. They are sociopathic. http://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/citizens-human-beings/ 262 comments politics
- Room for Progressives In Today’s Democratic Party? Regrettably, at this time, there is virtually no Left to counter the Tea Party and other right-wing forces: not a labor movement, women’s movement, peace movement... http://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/progressives-democrats/ 3 comments politics
- Native American Suggests He Was Profiled By Arizona Police: ‘New Bill Targets People Of My Color’ http://www.laprogressive.com/immigration-reform/native-american-suggests-profiled-arizona-police-bill-targets-people-color/?awesm=fbshare.me_amkwb 55 comments politics
- Weimar America: Our democracy is under attack. Men in high public office and with control over our national airwaves are deliberately stoking a potentially violent movement opposed to our democratic process. http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/10/21/weimar-america/ 9 comments politics
- "We must eradicate corruption there because the United States has invested too many troops and too much treasure to fail. I say. We cannot afford to stay in Afghanistan." Eradicate? This word is becoming popular now in the debate on the war. http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/09/23/rethink-afghanistan/?wscr=1280x800 3 comments politics
- Most health care reform haters have conceded that there’s language in the House health care bill that explicitly excludes undocumented immigrants, but none of them are willing to swallow their pride and admit that Rep. Joe Wilson’s blow-up was also factually incorrect. http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/09/15/conrad-and-baucus-appease-joe-wilsons-lie/ 10 comments politics
- Proposition Hate Redux: A government is ethically bankrupt when it legally frames a minority group's civil rights as a ballot question. http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/05/27/proposition-hate-redux/ 5 comments politics
- White House Media Pack Goes Diddley Over Bo: While newsworthy in itself, The Puppy Chronicles also highlight how distorted the priorities of American journalism has become. http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/04/12/white-house-media-pack-goes-diddley-over-bo/ 3 comments politics
- The Obamas' Farewell Tour to Eight Years of Neo-Con Foreign Policy | Far from being "worldly" policy planners with a clear-headed analysis of human nature -- the neo-cons, in reality, are nothing but a bunch of chumps. http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/04/08/the-obamas-farewell-tour-to-eight-years-of-neo-con-foreign-policy/ 3 comments politics
- Close Down Guantanamo? What About Our Own Hellholes? From Florida to California, America’s dehumanizing prisons confront Obama and our governors with a challenge every bit as daunting as Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/03/23/close-down-guantanamo-what-about-our-own-hellholes/ 15 comments worldnews
- Guns and Butter (Again): Obama needs to wise up, withdraw from Iraq & Afghanistan, find bin Laden in Pakistan, withdraw from the U.S. Empire, and slash the U.S. defense budget. http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/02/05/guns-and-butter-again/ 4 comments politics
- Bush killed a lot of people. Innocent people. He has a lot of blood on his hands. And he will remain oblivious to the suffering he caused. http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/01/07/just-go-mr-bush-please-just-go/ 3 comments politics
- What would happen if Obama took the position that flooding Cuba with American goods and tourists could show the Cuban people the benefits of a different system? http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/01/02/havana-and-hamas/ 154 comments politics
- For the first time in the lives of many of the rich, they are in as much financial trouble as the middle class, poor, and working poor. It just shows up differently. http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/12/15/the-grapes-of-writhing/ 9 comments politics
- Catholic Priest Says Vote No on Prop 8. No longer a priest... http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/10/11/priestly-portrait-of-courage/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Here Come The Smears - Palin accusing Obama of "pallin' around with terrorists" http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/10/06/here-come-the-smears/ 6 comments politics