A good primer on what may be the next racial issue we’ll be hearing about, but not actually dealing with in any substantive or helpful way: Another public conversation about race may be the last thing the Obama administration wants, but thanks to the Supreme Court, one is very likely on the way. It has …
Texas Doesn’t Secede…This Time
There are more uninsured residents of Texas — 6.1 million and counting — than there are people in 33 states. The state’s elected officials might be expected, therefore, to cheer a federal health care law that is likely to deliver billions of dollars from Washington to Austin and cover millions of low-income Texans. In Austin, …
Two Tiers
These bailed-out workers took a real hit: Among workers building the Jeep Grand Cherokee here, there are few obvious distinctions. Clutching lunch sacks and mini-coolers, they trudge together through the turnstiles at the plant’s main gate each day to tinker with the same vehicles, along the same assembly line, performing the same tasks. Yet they …
Center Right Nation
Hello again. I was kay the commenter and now I’m Kay. I live in a rural Ohio county and I’m active in the county and state Party. I’m a political minority here, and I am sometimes photographed standing next to the other Democrat, so I get email “notices” like this from local Republicans who know …