Author - SK Ashby

Open Thread

Madness

Artist – Rob Rogers In other news, Virginia Republicans have successfully blocked a full expansion of Medicaid that would have provided healthcare to 375,000 people. It’s a victory for...

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Environment

Delicious Coal Ash Slurry

Seventy-seven people, including employees and their families, have filed a lawsuit against a landfill in Ohio where coal ash is deposited because they were denied protective gear and were sickened by...

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Open Thread

Common Ground

Artist – J.D. Crowe In other news, the militiaman who was fired upon after creeping up behind a Border Patrol agent earlier this week is reportedly a convicted felon and thus broke federal law...

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Comedy

No Country for Little Kids

The Daily Show somehow manages to sit down with Jim Gilchrist, the co-founder of the Minuteman Project, to talk about immigration and Operation Normandy. If this is Operation Normandy and the...

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Ethics Jobs

Failing at Life

Erick Erickson doesn’t mean to be ugly but, if you have a job and you’re paid less than he is, you’re probably a failure. “The minimum wage is mostly people who failed at life...

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Iraq Open Thread

Do Something

Artist – Tim Eagan In other news, a federal judge has blocked a reduction in early voting in Ohio on the grounds that it violates the equal protection clause and the Voting Rights Act...

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Immigration

What Could Go Wrong?

What could go wrong continues to go wrong along the southern border where vigilantes and militiamen are taking matters into their own hands. Or trying to take matters into their own hands and failing...

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Immigration

Outreach

If some immigrant children are killed after being deported as the Los Angeles Times recently reported, that’s tragic but we should deport them anyway according to freshman Representative Robert...

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Iraq LGBT Open Thread

Change the Channel

Artist – Chan Lowe In other news, Haliburton will pay $1.1 billion in a settlement with gulf residents, businesses and local governments for damages stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil...

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