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Why Republicans have it tougher than the rest of us

February 10, 2015 Arthur Lieber Ethics, Religion in Politics, Republicans 3 comments

The Humor Games are almost always won by the left-wing comics. Whether it’s Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Larry Wilmore, or whoever, the last laugh

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Midterms: Democratic Party didn’t give people a reason to vote

November 12, 2014 Madonna Gauding Campaigns, Democrats, Politics, Prison, Privatization, Republicans, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

It’s absolutely true that Mitch McConnell and the Republicans obstructed every Democratic initiative. On the other hand, Democrats didn’t give people a reason to

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RIP Democratic Party: The best of the 2014 election post-mortems

November 6, 2014 Willy Kessler 2014 Election, Campaigns, Democrats, Republicans Leave a comment

The average American lost big in the midterm election yesterday when their last, best, if imperfect, hope, the Democratic party, was, in legislative terms

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Don’t overthink it: What happened in the 2014 election is simple

November 6, 2014 Steve Sorkin 2014 Election, Republicans Leave a comment

Almost all of the analysis of the election results is over-complicated at best and wrong at worst. This professor has it exactly right, in

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Obstructionism works

November 3, 2014 Steve Sorkin 2014 Election, Congress, Obama, Republicans Leave a comment

Perhaps the Democrats will be able to avoid losing the Senate tomorrow. I hope so, because if they don’t, we are in for a

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The billionaire’s blimp

October 17, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Humor, Missouri region, People, Politics, Republicans, States Leave a comment

Talk about overinflated: Missouri’s own right-wing billionaire and political meddler—Rex Sinquefield—has found a novel way to pump up support for his latest pet project.

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The minimum rage: Wisconsin edition

October 15, 2014 Joanna Sandsmark 2014 Election, Economy, Employment, Poverty, Republicans, States Leave a comment

With all the talk of raising the minimum wage, there is one state that shouldn’t have any trouble at all doing just that. Why?

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Inside the mind of a low-income Republican voter

October 13, 2014 Susan Cunningham Republicans, Uncategorized Leave a comment

We Democrats keep asking ourselves why in the world poor people vote Republican when it’s the Democrats who build and defend programs that will

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The political grandmaster behind the big chess tournament in St. Louis: Rex Sinquefield

September 5, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2014 Election, Campaigns, Missouri region, People, Politics, Republicans 2 comments

I have nothing against chess. But for those of you following the big chess tournament here in St. Louis, it might be interesting to

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Immigration foes say, “Immigrants steal our culture.” Why they are wrong.

September 3, 2014 Adam Levin Immigration, Republicans Leave a comment

I recently saw a Facebook post entitled, “Here’s All I Want.” It included four wishes: “Obama: Gone!” “Borders: Closed!” Language: English!” “Culture: U.S. Constitution

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