Ariens CEO Dan Ariens The Ariens Company, of Brillion Wisconsin, has BANNED PRAYER BREAKS for its Muslim employees. According to the company website, Ariens CEO Dan Ariens is a "community leader" (emphasis mine): Dan Ariens, … [Read more...]

I'm trying to watch the live stream. ABC apparently has a monopoly on that stream. The feed barely works. It is choppy. It freezes, then jumps again. Segments are being skipped. Resolution varies from high to low without warning. Of … [Read more...]

On my way to bed, I figured I'd watch just a little of the GOP debate, just to see if perhaps my contempt for these clowns is unjustified. Based on what I saw tonight, it is not. I gave up fifteen minutes of my life, and heard Donald … [Read more...]

I just received the following email from Elizabeth Warren's official website. I'm sure they won't mind if I quote it here in its entirety and without further commentary from me: Over the past four years, millions of people have fled … [Read more...]

19-Nov-2015 Update Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced, this morning, that "We are at war with ISIS": This "interview" is, itself, a case-study in media propaganda. The "questions" are little more than thinly-disguised demands … [Read more...]

  I'm really not kidding, I'm not making this up — watch the video yourselves Senator Marco Rubio openly compares Muslims to Nazis. Here are his words (0:15-0:23, emphasis mine): That would be like saying we weren't at war with … [Read more...]

I just finished navigating the CBSN links to watch the entire debate (I had to join late, so I watched the live portion after 10p, and then back-filled the first hour). It was nice to watch grownups running for president. I was again … [Read more...]

We progressives participate in sustaining the lie of "trickle down" economics, even as we more superficially say we oppose it. I realized today that we need to not just oppose the concept, we need to reject the very metaphor. Here's … [Read more...]

No picture this time. We've heard lots of talk about "electability". We've heard lots of discussion about "flip-flopping", about whether or not Americans are ready to elect a self-professed socialist, and of course we've had numerous … [Read more...]

Multiple sources report the escape of a giant unmanned military surveillance blimp from military custody today: The U.S. military has two giant unmanned surveillance blimps it uses to watch the East coast from a base in Maryland. And one … [Read more...]