On Hulled Boats and Rising Tides

Something I threw up on Facebook, but it’s worth preserving before it falls down the memory hole. I linked to this, an article by Steve Benen on opposition to the minimum wage by Senate candidates in Missouri. Benen writes: Indeed, the fact that U.S. Senate candidates would have no qualms about standing against the existenceContinue reading “On Hulled Boats and Rising Tides”

On Mitt Romney’s Inhumanity

After winning the Florida Primary, Mitt Romney wanted America to know — he’s “not concerned about the very poor.” Erick Erickson, the CNN pundit and proprietor of Red State wrote that Romney’s line “played straight into the liberal caricature that Republicans don’t have hearts.” That’s not how it is, though. It’s not that Republicans, especiallyContinue reading “On Mitt Romney’s Inhumanity”