WP’s NYT Comments on Climate Change, Deficits, and International Adoptions
Here are some recent comments by Winning Progressive on New York Times opinion columns regarding climate change, deficits, and international adoptions. In response to Tom Friedman’s column The Market...
View ArticleWeekend Reading List
For this weekend’s reading list we have articles on guns in the US, journalists in the pocket of fiscal scold Pete Peterson, the different approach of conservative judges to voting rights vs. campaign...
View ArticleSqueezed, Part III: Building Better Government
(By NCrissie B) This week’s series explored the causes and consequences as working Americans are increasingly squeezed by stagnant wages and rising costs of living. First, we saw how workers have...
View ArticleExtortion During the Fiscal Cliff Deal
(By The Pragmatic Pundit) This story first appeared in the New York Times on January 19 and because everyone isn’t angry, I have to believe you missed it, so I’m telling it again. Since the 2010...
View ArticleWe the People, Part III: Why Are “We?”
This week’s series explores three different views of the U.S. Constitution, through the lens of the Preamble’s first three words: “We the People.” First we considered libertarian views and the question...
View ArticleMarco Romney or Mitt Rubio?
In the wake of the GOP’s electoral drubbing last November, many conservatives and their enablers in the media have been pretending that Republicans have learned their lesson and are presenting a new,...
View ArticleOn Boehner’s Debt Ceiling Threat: No More Ransom Payments
(By NCrissie B) Yesterday House Speaker John Boehner announced that Republicans intend to hold the debt ceiling hostage again this summer: Speaking at his regular news conference, Boehner said the only...
View ArticleWindows, Curtains, and Fringes
(By NCrissie B) We need political fringes because that’s where most new ideas begin. Many will be bad ideas, like the House Republican Budget’s plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program. Others will...
View ArticleWP Comments on the Failure of Austerity, Marriage Equality, Syria, and More
In our latest installment of comments made at the New York Times, we have Winning Progressive’s comments regarding failed austerity in Europe, conservative calls for others to suffer economically, how...
View ArticleProgressive Reading List – Health Care Reform Edition
For this weekend’s progressive reading list, we have a pro-Affordable Care Act column from Governor Steve Beshear of Kentucky, along with a series of reports on how various provisions of ObamaCare have...
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