The New York Times
Armistice Day to be observed Friday at Milwaukee City Hall
Armistice Day program on Nov. 11
to feature speakers, music, poetry
Milwaukee Veterans for Peace will sponsor its third annual Armistice Day observance on Friday, Nov. 11, at 7 pm in the rotunda of Milwaukee City Hall.
Ruth Conniff, political editor of The Progressive, will be the main speaker at the one-hour program, which will also include remarks by Iraq veteran Zach LaPorte, music by Robin Pluer, poetry by Harvey Taylor, and commemoration of Wisconsin's war dead.
Ruth Conniff covers national politics for The Progressive and is a voice of The Progressive on many TV and radio programs. Conniff was a regular on CNN's Sunday Capital Gang and is now a regular on PBS's To the Contrary. She also has appeared frequently on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and on NPR and Pacifica. Conniff's op-ed commentaries have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. She also contributes regularly to Isthmus, Madison's weekly newspaper.
Armistice Day program on Nov. 11
GOP 'Class Warfare'
What's one focus of GOP state legislators throughout the county, including here in Oklahoma, as a new U.S. Congressional Budget Office report released last week outlined massive wealth disparity between the nation's richest residents and everyone else?
That GOP focus is to drug test welfare recipients and deny them benefits.
Now that's the essence of "class warfare," a term Republicans like to use in an attempt to demonize anyone who thinks the wealthy should pay more in taxes or the government should do more to create job and educational opportunities.
Both Parties Have Failed On Climate Change
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
The New York Times notes America's singular state of denial, inaction and downright arrogance about climate change awareness and effort.
Look to our politicians' short-term thinking and the pervasive influence of climate change experts, such as Professors Beck and Limbaugh, the Koch Brothers' money and the propagandists at Fox.
Paul Ryan, Message Machine
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
An authority no less than
The New York Times says a recent Paul Ryan riff was a "minor masterpiece of image calibration."
In the span of two dozen sentences, Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, mentioned the Bible, or rather a beginner’s version of it, which he said he was reading aloud to his 6-year-old son. He mentioned his truck and his appetite for hard rock, thus establishing automotive and musical affinities that balance his wonkier, number-crunching bona fides. He mentioned hunting — with a bow, no less.
Then came the capper. He mentioned his talent for what I’d like to call venison charcuterie, just because he so clearly wouldn’t. “I butcher my own deer, grind the meat, stuff it in casings and then smoke it,” he said, making clear that Sarah Palin in all her moose-eviscerating glory has nothing on him.
New study: Plutocrats like Paul Ryan often vote for the agenda of the wealthy
Air campaignThe Center for Responsive Politics says the average US senator has a $13 million personal fortune. Meanwhile, members of the House of Representatives average close to $5 million -- and here in Wisconsin, GOP Rep. Paul (Taxing The Rich is Class Warfare) Ryan is among the millionaires. Does that wealth matter when it comes to how these legislators vote? Short answer, which won't surprise progressives one bit: Yes, and a lot. Rich legislators tend to vote for measures that benefit rich Americans.
Duke University political scientist Nicholas Carnes put the issue to statistical analysis in a study matching members of Congress, their class backgrounds, and their votes in the near-century between 1901 and 1996.
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