Author - SK Ashby

Quote

Tell Us How You Really Feel

“I’ll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.” -House Republican Conference Chairman John Boehner, April 1996 Have Speaker Boehner’s views evolved since the...

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Open Thread Racism

Swap Meet

Artist – Pat Bagley In other news, the office of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is apparently overflowing with racists who have nightmares about being a “negro.” Get it? ACORN nut...

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LGBT

Jim Crow for Gays in Arizona

Kansas isn’t the only state moving ahead with Jim Crow-style laws for gay people. The Arizona Senate has passed a similar bill that would allow business owners to refuse service to gay people...

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Healthcare

They Aren’t Hiding It

Following up on the earlier story about kicking 96,000 people off of Medicaid; Arkansas state Representative Nate Bell (R) introduced an amendment to the appropriations bill (the bill did not pass)...

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Ethics Georgia

Heritage

Georgia state officials have approved a new licence plate featuring a confederate flag that covers the entire plate. Because its our heritage. From the Associated Press The Georgia division of the...

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Healthcare

Obama’s Fault

If you like your plan you can’t keep it. Lawmakers and angry residents will almost certainly blame the president for this, but let it be known that Republican holdouts in the Arkansas state...

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Open Thread

Science Learnin’

Artist – David Horsey In related news, a snow plow driver had a gun pointed in his face outside Pittsburgh today because he had the audacity to plow snow from a driveway into a yard as people...

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