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Retired labor union official, newspaper editor/reporter, and community worker. Also community activist.

Category: 'Fair and Balanced'

  • Sen. Johnson: Have you the courage?

    An Open Letter to Sen. Ron Johnson: Every so often a legislator gets a chance to take a courageous step forward.  Now is YOUR time to make that act of fortitude. Please remove the shackles of conformity that have linked you to the current Republican Party’s view that it must scuttle President Obama’s nuclear arms…

  • The shames of one blogger and the President

    My, oh my, how can one blogger turn the President of the United States into a quivering and quaking wimp? That’s how I read it, anyway.  When conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, already discredited for earlier fabrications, claimed current Department of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod admitted to not working hard to assist a white farmer in…

  • Call them ‘NeoPopulists’

    How could it have happened?  The tea-baggers!  The angry white mobs at the town meetings! The Republicans! Are these today’s “populists?”  The media loves to throw the noun “populist” on these folks, claiming they are the “common people,” or “ordinary folks.”  And the reporters use the word “angry” to describe them. Yet, are these folks…

  • Resolutions for everyone else for 2010!

    No, I won’t make a New Year’s Resolution this year.  Over the last few years, I’ve vowed to cure my addiction to reruns of “Law and Order,” the original and all of its offsprings, but alas, I seem to violate it on the very next “Law and Order” marathon day.  I’ve concluded I can’t be…

  • ‘Fair and Balanced’ My Eye!

    Praise must go to Wisconsin State AFL-CIO President David Newby for braving the “Fair and Balanced” segment of Fox News on Thursday, Dec. 17. Governor Jim Doyle’s signing of the bill to call for the state’s education standards to include labor history and collective bargaining has gathered some national attention; it may indeed be the…