
Unions brought us some niceties which Americans seem to be taking for granted.

Michele Bachmann is attempting to serve two masters, at least until she can do away with one of them.

For this weekend’s reading list, we have articles on the impacts of Texas’ new forced sonogram law and of conservative efforts to privatize special education programs, how the conservative movement has been crazy for the past sixty years, greenwashing at Walmart, and the impacts of cost-benefit analysis on environmental protection.

So, here we are again with Boehner, reaching into his ‘bag of tricks’ for sake of placating his ‘Tea Party’ laden House. The Speaker has to offer up a cross-Continental pipeline with an added measure of ‘environment killing’ ‘pacifiers’ for his party.