Tom McClintock was at various venues in Grass Valley recently, revealing his poor grasp of local and national issues, as reported by someone close to me (full disclosure: my wife, in an op-ed in today’s The Union): More than 26 million Americans are now out of work or are underemployed. Four million homes have been…
Here’s Rachel Maddow at her best, explaining why the struggle in Madison, Wisconsin has nothing to do with the budget, and everything to do with the GOP’s effort to permanently destroy the Democratic Party. Before you decide that my previous sentence was hyperbole, watch this video:
This isn’t just gorgeous, although it is gorgeous. It’s also a work of genius. An improvisation on Handel’s Sarabande, by Gabriela Montero.
Editor’s note: I received this request today from the Institute for Policy Studies, to support the “Investing in Our Future Act of 2011,” a bill that would “put a levy on foreign currency transactions to curb short-term speculation while generating revenue for U.S. deficit reduction and for global public goods like climate change programs.”…
Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Ralph Silberstein, President, and Mike Pasner, Vice-President, of Citizens Looking at the Impact of Mining in Grass Valley (CLAIM-GV ). In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that I’m a member of CLAIM-GV and have assisted in efforts to research the Draft Environmental Impact Report….