Why We Should Stop Trying To Please Republicans

Environmental advocate, civil rights activist and attorney Van Jones on the individual mandate: “Insurance is what you buy when you don’t know if something bad is going to happen. Maybe I’ll crash my car. Maybe I won’t. I don’t know. So I’m going to get car insurance just in case. Everybody’s going to get sick and die, so you know every single person’s going to need health insurance. That’s not something you can provide insurance for, that’s called a service.”

Yes, People Like This Can Vote

If there were a way to finagle Voter ID legislation to weed people like this out, I’d be in favor of them. Alas.

Noam Chomsky On Sandwiches And Twitter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKVyrSv5GwI

Does the guy have a point, or is this just another example of a generation gap?

Welcome To The Tea Party Galaxy

“In this rarified atmosphere, facts don’t matter. Winning is all that matters…delusion is not a state of mind; it’s a negotiating tactic.”

Why We Need To Say No To Keystone

The oil that Canada has deep within its chunk of earth’s crust is hardly the light, clean oil that we can see and draw from on the daily in Saudi Arabia. It’s heavy, tar sand crude, which is some of the most expensive, difficult, and environmentally hazardous to refine. Beyond that, it’s not even coming to the United States, it’s going through it, all the while releasing harmful greenhouses gases and, given the incredibly corrosive chemical additive and sand cocktail, running the risk of seeping through these transcontinental pipes. In other words, big oil stands to gain. We don’t.