This “golden boy” of social art has already created historic images. And he’s just beginning. For the thousands of people who have participated in recent pro-immigration marches and demonstrations in Arizona, the name Ernesto Yerena is not as popular as some of the posters he has created and which have become an emblematic symbol in the [...]

This post was originally published on Think Progress. As House Democrats prepare to vote on health care reform in the next few days, tea party activists protested outside the Capitol this morning, shouting cries of “kill the bill.” Reps. Steve King (R-IA) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) addressed the crowd to warn about perceived tyranny and to distort [...]

Twitter is all abuzz today over news that Erick Erickson, the right-wing, tea-partying Editor-in-chief of RedState.com, has been hired as a contributor to CNN, the “most trusted name in news.” Rather than name all the reasons this is bad — this is the man who joked, upon hearing that Obama was a Nobel laureate: “I [...]

By Blanca E. Vega, Doctoral Candidate at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College, Race-Talk contributor The days of openly supporting the educational ambitions of students of color are gone. More and more institutions of higher education continue to feel the threat of lawsuits and speculations of color consciousness if they uphold programs that specifically reach out to [...]

This post was originally published on Commondreams.org U.S. – Israeli relations are worse now than they’ve been in 35 years, according to Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. And you’ve got to wonder why. Yes, right-wingers in the Israeli government launched a diplomatic grenade just as the U.S. was about to preside over the [...]

This post was originally published on Hullabaloo. Right wing lies and distortions about the health care bill just keep on coming. Thank goodness there are enough wonks and analysts out there to bat them back, although I’m really doubting at this point it makes any difference in the short run. The proof will be in the [...]

Over the weekend, Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), who is challenging John McCain in Arizona in the Republican primary, aired his concerns that same-sex marriage could lead to …. a man marrying his horse?!?! Last night, Rachel Maddow had Hayworth on her show. Needless to say, she had no trouble picking apart his argument. Watch: Visit msnbc.com for [...]

Sometimes one has to pick a scab. A question to my original intent, strict constructionist readers: Is the extension of “rights” to corporations as “people” under the Equal Protection Clause a perversion of the sacred cow that is “original intent?” Or is it in keeping with the framers’ belief that corporations should [...]

We talked about the economy today, and whether Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner deserves more credit. What he should be getting credit for, it seems to me, is that Lehman Brothers report — well, not the report, but the cover-up. To give you the thumbnail sketch, a court-appointed bank examiner spent a year researching [...]

For a while, Republicans were awfully worked up about using the reconciliation process to pass a health-care related budget fix, despite the GOP’s repeated use of the same procedure. Now Republicans are headed for the fainting couch over use of the self-executing rule, despite the GOP’s repeated reliance on the [...]