susan the bruce

A look at one of the lessons being learned from the Occupy movement. From Barbara Ehrenreich at Mother Jones: What the Occupy Wall Streeters...

First, a 91 year old woman can't get a voter ID in Murfreesboro. From The Tennesseean: Ninety-one-year-old Virginia Lasater says she was...

A disgruntled worker explains what was behind his theatrical resignation. From HuffPo: Like almost anyone who's ever held down a job, Jo...

I’d like to take a moment to thank NH House Speaker William O’Brien, and the entire Teabaglican legislature for providing me with endless co...

The invasion of the presidential candidates has begun. The media is crafting the narrative they prefer, and the debates are in full swing. S...

Since the new health insurance reform law went into effect in 2010, over a million young adults have been able to get health insurance. The ...

The work of repairing the damage done to our state by Hurricane Irene continues. The Kancamaugus Highway has been repaired enough to allow ...

There hasn't been nearly enough job creation to help the (officially) 14 million Americans who are out of work. As I've said before,...

Pity the plight of poor Congressman Fleming, a Tea Partier from Louisiana. From TPM: Fleming -- a businessman who owns Subway sandwich shops...

US Senate finally moves forward on a bill that would provide disaster aid to states devastated by Hurricane Irene. From Politico: Senate Dem...

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has a mixed message about unemployment in her state. Houston Chronicle: Here she's saying the unemp...

A short, chilling, clip from last night's Tea Party Express debate on CNN: By all means - let's just let the uninsured die. These p...

In last week's story about Voter ID in Wisconsin, we learned of a memo that was sent out to DMV employees: An internal memo from a top ...

Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin has been having a tough time with his constituents. Back in April the home town folks were expressing th...

It’s been a big year for disaster in the US. Floods, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, and hurricanes have cost lives and billions of dolla...

Back in June, I wrote about NH Governor Lynch vetoing a Voter ID bill. Yesterday the NH Senate voted on whether to override or sustain the g...

Presidential candidate and Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, recently told a group of voters in Iowa that Social Security is "a Ponzi sch...

US Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio: Senator Rubio is presenting a fanciful revision of history. As ThinkProgress points out: ...

Once again, Crow Dickinson has put Conway on the map. The first time he accomplished this by trying to carry a loaded gun in his lugga...

The current NH legislature has made a concerted effort to try to overturn nearly every law enacted during the 4 years that the Democrats con...