CT Blue

I’ve been a critic, but when you compare Obama to what we could have gotten, or could get, it’s hard to complain too much. This well done video does a great job of highlighting Obama’s achievements, which none of us should forget.    

 He can drive you crazy sometimes, but you can’t help liking him. That may be the key to this year’s election, since you can’t help loathing the competition.  

From Firedoglake: When Barack Obama ran for president he promised to respect the states’ medical marijuana laws. But since tak ing office Obama has been steadily using more and more parts of the federal government to wage a war on medical marijuana. His Administration’s actions as of late have become so aggressively anti-medical marijuana that […]

This is something that was under my radar, so I pass it along in case it’s escaped notice generally. In the current New York Review of Books Diane Ravitch reviews two books, one of which is Class Warfare, by Steve Brill, in which Brill argues that union busting and charter schools, among other right wing […]