Why I can no longer support Jared Polis
on many issues Jared Polis has been a strongly progressive Congressman. I knew that he and I did not see eye to eye on charter schools, but I often disagree on matters of policy with people I feel free to support. What is not acceptable to me is to see someone engage in ad hominem attacks on someone who disagrees with them. By now many here know that Polis responded to a tweet in which Randi Wein
Wash Post likely voters TMac + 8
In this story for which the Post sent out a breaking news email alert, we find McAuliffe leads 47 percent to 39 percent among likely voters, with Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis’s 10 percent suggesting an unrest among voters not satisfied with either major-party contender. In a one-on-one matchup without Sarvis in the mix, the poll shows a narrower, 49-44 race between McAuliffe and Cuccinell
Krugman goes after Republicans on SNAP
in a column today titled Free to be Hungry, which I highly recommend. He starts by noting the Right's obsession with the word "freedom" (such as in Freedom Works and "freedom fries") before offering this gem of a paragraph: The right’s definition of freedom, however, isn’t one that, say, F.D.R. would recognize. In particular, the third of his famous Four Freedoms — freedom fro
9-21-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: September 21, 1974was a Saturday. It was late afternoon. I had spent several hours visiting friends on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. I lived not far away, in Rosemont, and I had planned to go into Philadelphia, riding the Paoli Line train, top attend a party to which I had been invited. I was 28 years old, working as a computer programmer analyst, living in a rented