TPA Roundup 10/15/2012
Posted by bosskittyThe Texas Progressive Alliance and this week’s roundup are both certified 100% malarkey-free.
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TPA Roundup 10/1/2012
Posted by bosskitty2012 Elections, current-events, Politics, Texas Blogs, Texas History, Texas Politics, Texas Progressive Alliance The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that the deadline to register for the election is October 9 as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff has a Q&A with Democratic Supreme Court candidate Michelle Petty, who is running against one [...]
TPA Roundup 9/24/2012
Posted by bosskittyThe Texas Progressive Alliance is enjoying the change of season as it brings you this week’s roundup.
TPA Roundup 9/17/2012
Posted by bosskittyThe Texas Progressive Alliance is still on a post-convention bounce as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff analyzed the latest poll of Texas and its implications. BossKitty at TruthHugger is suspicious about the timing of that horrid film clip using the name of Mohammad as a fuse to global meltdown against all [...]
TPA Roundup 9/3/2012
Posted by bosskittyThe Texas Progressive Alliance has its eyes on Charlotte as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Republican Whack A Mole Misses the Point
Posted by bosskittyThe point is: While the Republicans struggle to dethrone the Obama they hate, the country is suffering from inattention daily. To quote the precious gun lobby, “we just need to enforce the laws we have.” That would be great if the GOP would quit deregulating and withholding funds from enforcement agencies. Today’s America is a [...]
Campaign Season Op Ed: BossKitty Awakens
Posted by bosskittyAwakening from my 2011 sabbatical, I’m compelled to comment on the catastrophe that the American Electoral Process is. I cannot abide today’s state of the country and state of the world without comment. After all, America’s leaders have brought us to the condition we find ourselves in now. Through intentional manipulation, America’s Defense Industry has [...]
Election Postmortem: A Picture of Dorian Gray
Posted by nytexanby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy It is said that insanity is repeating a failed strategy in the expectation of one day getting a different result. Because that never happens, the nation is nuts! Just enough people always vote against their own interests to guarantee that wealth will continue to ‘trickle up’, that wars benefiting [...]
The Constitutional Ignorance of the Tea Party
Posted by nytexanAs we have all come to learn, the Tea Party, both candidates and their supporters, are extremely ignorant of the document they want to restore, the U.S. Constitution. Let’s not fool ourselves and think that the Tea Party and the wing nuts just stumbled upon their ignorance, its been in full bloom since Bush began [...]
Corporate-Sponsored TeaParty Thugs Assault a female MoveOn Protester (VIDEO)
Posted by nytexanby Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire First off, a humble thank you to The Political Carnival for originally putting me on to this video of a female MoveOn protester being violently mob-tackled to the ground, and then having her torso and head stomped on by right-wing goons. Folks, this is what corporate-sponsored paranoia and [...]
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