Category Archives: Organizing

#StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “#StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail It’s time for Limbaugh’s defenders to stop before they hurt themselves. Actions like #StopRush have been going on for a long time without any help from George Soros or Media … Continue reading →

Posted in ALEC, Organizing, rush limbaugh | 18 Comments

Alabama State House Rally for Women’s Rights

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Posted in alabama, Organizing, War on Women | 21 Comments

Why Progressives Don’t Get All Their Cookies

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Why Progressives Don’t Get All Their Cookies”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail While disappointed, marijuana activists have no one but themselves to blame if they invested too much in a president. For as I keep saying, presidents don’t make the laws — … Continue reading →

Posted in Civics, Congress, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Organizing, progressives | 27 Comments

Angie’s List a Perfect Fit for Limbaugh

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Angie’s List a Perfect Fit for Limbaugh”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail This was forwarded to me by a #stoprush volunteer who wrote Angie’s List to cancel their membership over the company’s continued sponsorship of Rush Limbaugh’s sick misogyny circus. It is … Continue reading →

Posted in ALEC, Organizing, rush limbaugh | 24 Comments

Colonel Mustard Pets a Troll

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Colonel Mustard Pets a Troll”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Like the President, William A. Jacobson, Esq. (pictured) has been the Senior Editor of a Harvard legal publication, the International Law Journal. From 1984 to 2007 he maintained a successful private practice … Continue reading →

Posted in astroturf politics, Colonel Mustard, Organizing, rush limbaugh | 16 Comments

Progressives Have One Million Plans

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Progressives Have One Million Plans”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail One of the more hilarious right wing memes out there is the idea that every progressive is a Saul Alinsky acolyte. Alinsky titled his book Rules For Radicals because all too often, … Continue reading →

Posted in health care reform, Kulturkampf, Organizing, progressives | 3 Comments

The Conservative Song Remains the Same

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “The Conservative Song Remains the Same”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI’m a big fan of Gordon Skeene’s Newstalgia blog at Crooks & Liars, where I found this feature on H.L. Hunt last night. Hunt sounds exactly like an Atlas Shrugged-thumping tea party … Continue reading →

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Occupy Irrelevance

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Occupy Irrelevance”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI’ve entertained hope that Occupy would evolve into what tea parties pretended to be, and failed to become: a populist uprising that grows roots and becomes a lasting force. Unfortunately, the militantly-leaderless nature of the movement … Continue reading →

Posted in Obama Derangement Syndrome, Occupy America, Organizing | 4 Comments

Be Relevant

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Be Relevant”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailPresented without commentary.

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Third Parties In Two Party America

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Third Parties In Two Party America”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIn 2008, the Dole Institute of Politics hosted a discussion of third parties in America — and why the modern system has defaulted to just two.

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The Center Cannot Hold

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “The Center Cannot Hold”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail I could not bear to watch the final Republican debate. One of my Twitter correspondents — a sweet-tempered Alabamian named Jill who identifies with neither party, and so considers herself part of the … Continue reading →