Good old crackpot Tommy Thompson, in tonight’s GOP debate, said it’s okay for employers to discriminate against homosexuals. I didn’t see it because I don’t have cable. Thanks to Jeffrey Feldman I didn’t have to.
From Frameshop:
“When asked if it would be OK for an employer to fire an employee solely because they were gay, Thompson [...]

Tommy Thompson has a lot of nerve to claim he is a pioneer of welfare reform.
Yes, he was the Governor in Wisconsin at the time welfare reform was first talked about but it seems that very few people have their facts straight on this one. Welfare reform was not Tommy Thompson’s baby — it [...]

John Nichols is about the only guest of Jean Feraca's show, Here on Earth, that I'll listen to through a pledge drive. Especially when he's promoting his new book The Genius of Impeachment: The  Founders' Cure for Royalism. While conservatives will dismiss the book as partisan grenade lobbing, what I've always liked about Nichols is [...]

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
-William Proxmire, US senator, Reformer (1915-2005)