Category: Politics
Rick Perry and the Father’s Day Massacre
by WS Editors | Sep 15, 2011 | PoliticsYet it is Perry’s June 17, 2001, record that seems more remarkable. In an assault on the Legislature in which he had served for five years, Perry vetoed 79 bills on the last day he could do so after the session adjourned, ensuring that no veto could be overridden. Perry’s total veto count for the […]
How the Texas Governor Created His State’s Budget Crisis
by WS Editors | Sep 1, 2011 | Economy, PoliticsThe $27 billion equaled 15 percent of the $182 billion biennial budget the Legislature had passed two years earlier. If not Armageddon, an apocalyptic loss of revenue in a low-tax state that provides bare-bones public services. Perry’s statement was even more remarkable because most of the budget shortfall was a consequence of a business-tax bill […]
Rewriting the Rules for Political Campaigns
by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2011 | PoliticsThe landscape that Basic Rights Oregon has set out to change was redefined in 2004, when Republicans and evangelical Christians forced initiatives prohibiting same-sex marriage onto ballots in 11 states. Ohio’s ballot initiative got most of the media coverage, because it was a state that George W. Bush had to win in order to be […]
Reed, Redemption, and Revival
by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2011 | PoliticsRodent Republicans Were someone to discover “a rat head in the bottom of the bottle,” Norquist said, “Coke’s brand would be ruined for everyone.
“Republican elected officials who vote to increase taxes are rat heads in a Coke bottle.”
—Grover Norquist, June 2011
Three days before Ralph Reed brought 800 Evangelicals to Washington, the New York Times ran an article anticipating the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference Reed had organized. Faith & Freedom is Reed’s new startup, an advocacy group intended to get Christians engaged in the 2012 elections. There was a small conference last year; this was to be a more ambitious event. But the Times story was a profile of Reed, not his organization. And despite the space it dedicated to him, it only briefly addressed his past transgressions…
Who’s Afraid of Elizabeth Warren? | Innocence Abroad: NYU in the U.A.E.
by Alison Fairbrother | Jun 1, 2011 | Economy, PoliticsA Bonus for Consumers “Wall Street bonuses in 2010 alone totaled $20.8 billion — more than 51 times the size of the C.F.P.B.’s budget cap.” —Elizabeth Warren in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee THREE BILLS WORKING THEIR WAY THROUGH the House Financial Services Committee are precisely what most Republicans on the committee […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety