Featured Perspective

Ouch.  The GOP lost ground in 25 or 26 demographics polled in a new Gallup poll on political party identification.  Tracing party ID from 2001 to 2009 (i.e., the Bush years), the GOP managed to stay even in only one category; weekly church goers.  Here’s the data

Yessiree, this strategy of having Dick Cheney, Karl Rove [...]

Civil and Domestic Issues

Today the California Supreme Court issued its ruling to uphold the hateful Proposition 8 banning same sex marriage. The Court also held that the 18,000 marriages that occurred between the time of Court’s ruling that gay marriage was protected under the California Constitution and when the electorate voted to amend the Constitution to ban same [...]

Politics

Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) was interviewed on FOX News today for his reaction to ex-Republican Senator Arlen Specter’s decision to bolt to the Democratic Party.  Watch the interview:
Maybe I’m missing something here, but Sen. Inhofe’s points make absolutely no sense.  First, he claims there’s “people already starting to rebel against (the Obama agenda)”.  Huh?  Let’s [...]

Economy

I’ve written several times about tax policy and middle class wage stagnation.  There’s plenty of evidence that as middle class wages languished for the last 25 years, those individuals chose to use overinflated home equity and easy credit to become more and more leveraged in order to live a lifestyle that had moved out of [...]

Health and Environment

PRIORITY FOR OBAMA”S HIV POLICY AGENDA: NEEDLE EXCHANGE

President Obama has vowed a renewed focus on the domestic HIV epidemic. The only thing that I can give President Bush is establishing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to address HIV/AIDS globally but he failed miserably at addressing the epidemic in this country. President Obama’s [...]

Sheer Press

Obama’s Weekly Address 5/09/2009

Media Influence

If you walk on the sane side of the world you might wonder where the young men got his flawed logic from or if perhaps he was suffering from some mental disorder.  However, if you walk in the valley of the wingnut, you know damn well where the shooter picked up his tainted and flawed [...]

Special SP Commentary

I can’t begin to express my disappointment in Obama’s decision regarding crimes that were committed by the previous administration. I have supported President Obama, even when I have disagreed with some of his decisions, but for me, this crosses the line. I could write about my opinion on this in depth, but Keith [...]

Sheer Progress Picks

It must be noted that when you have 60,000 people volunteering for something that requires less than 30,000 people it must be considered special.
An unprecedented 60,000 people have sent applications to the Presidential Inaugural Committee to volunteer for activities surrounding the swearing-in of Barack Obama — even if it means simply giving directions or friendly [...]

foreign policy

Here’s a shocker.   JOHN BOLTON would attack Iran now. Why do we have to keep listening to this warmonger?  Oh, right he’s on Fox Fake News. Who else would give cause for America to enter a third war without taking into account America’s lack of money (economic meltdown) and troops (serious shortage) that is [...]

World Perspective

Today marks the fifth day of Israel’s military action against Hamas.  Although both sides have been actively participating in fire exchange, the amount of destruction thus far has mainly been one sided.
The Israeli government, today, anounced their approval to allow the military to call up 2,500 reserve soldiers.  This action is the first active sign [...]