From Joseph Gerth at the Louisville Courier-Journal, interesting and encouraging news about the newest state Green Party: Tired of Democrats and Republicans who don’t speak to the issues or solve the problems important to them, about 35 people gathered Saturday in Anderson County to form the Green Party of Kentucky... Geoff Young, a ...

Forget the debt ceiling debacle--making the U.S. Congress the laughingstock of the developed world--for a moment. It's not just government breaking down. The economy is contracting--maybe collapsing--and society as we know it may well collapse right along with it. Apocalyptic, you say? Overly dramatic? Glenn Beck-esque? Perhaps. But I'm not ...

Originally posted this morning at All Education Matters. All Education Matters has been reporting about the threat to Pell Grants since mid-May. It is on the chopping block, and some members of the GOP have described the program as being akin to welfare. Pell has helped many low-income and minority students pay ...

Bernie Sanders' folks (anti-austerity petition here) sent us a link to an interview and floor speech the Senator gave in his seemingly futile fight to instill some good sense, and maybe even some awareness of the plight of the working class, into the current Mad Tea Party going on in ...

Jon Huntsman is Mormon like Lady Gaga is Catholic. Okay, I exaggerate. Gaga was raised Catholic but her art exists in antagonistc tension with the Catholic Church. Jon Huntsman flouts the rules of Mormonism, but he doesn't antagonize the LDS Church. Still, Huntsman is barely more “Mormon” in the technical ...

Concerning liberals, Phil Ochs designated them "ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally." This was an understatement: Rich liberals sometimes don't even need to be affected personally in order to swing sharply rightward. Sometimes they ...

When "well-placed sources" began to discuss that Rick Perry might enter the presidential race--there was excitement across the Tea party nation.  And a sigh of relief in Texas. This is not a scientific data.  But, here is a random sampling of the responses of my Facebook friends (all Texas natives, most ...

The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was removed from office for defying the Constitution and a federal court order is now one of 14 major candidates running for the Republican nomination for the presidency. by Walter Brasch Alabama’s Court of the Judiciary unanimously had ordered Roy S. Moore removed ...

What's in a number? In the case of 330 ppm, a whole lot. "Imperialism, not human nature, has caused this global crisis; anti-imperialism and solidarity are the only paths out." by Macdonald Stainsby Though the arguments made in this article appear to be about the numbers set as targets in parts per million ...

by Walter Brasch “If it bleeds, it leads” is local TV’s aphorism that dictates its belief that fires, car crashes, and shootings lead off the nightly newscast. These stories, of course, are more “visual” and easier to cover than poverty, worker exploitation, and the health care crisis. But, now and then, it’s ...