(via Josh Healey) For most of the last decade, I lived in the crazy, cold, contradictory state that is Wisconsin. I wrote research papers in Madison, performed poems in Milwaukee, walked picket lines in Jefferson, organized student conferences in Eau Claire, led artistic workshops in Green Bay, spoke at my roommate’s wedding in Merrill, and […]

The Rent Is Too Damn High Candidate Jimmy McMillan has literally had us laughing all day long, not because he’s a joke, but rather we believe in his message. Rent is too damn high. The more we thought about it, the more we began to have an issue of our own! So when Jimmy McMillian […]

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Last night, the star of the New York Gubernatorial debate was most definitely Jimmy McMillan of the Rent Is Too Damn High party. Let’s face it, political debates are totally boring – the answers are stilted and prepared, no one actually addresses the pressing issues in a genuine, matter-of-fact way. It’s always the fringe candidates […]

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The rent is too damn high was the theme at last night’s New York Governor debate. A slew of candidates made their views be known but one message New Yorkers got last night from the candidate, Jimmy McMillan,  who is running for Governor of New York is The rent is to damn high. That is Jimmy McMillan’s platform and that is what Jimmy McMillan […]

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Carl Paladino, New York Governor Candidate, is off his rocker, Paladino had to be restrained from whooping a reporters ass, Fred Dicker was the reporter that confronted Paladino after the two got into a physical altercation. This is crazy looking at these two almost come to blows. Paladino, who is the one of the newest nut jobs in the Republican party accused […]

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Sarah Palin in Homer, Alaska goes relieves herself on Facebook by posting ‘And here I am, thousands of miles away from DC out on a commercial fishing boat, working my butt off for my own business, merely asking the Democrat politicos and their liberal friends in the media: ‘What’s the plan, man?’, and they seem […]

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Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, died Monday. He was 92. A spokesman for the family, Jesse Jacobs, said Byrd died peacefully at about 3 a.m. at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, […]

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I am stunned by Governor Paterson’s recent proposal to cut the New York State Council on the Arts’ budget by 40%. It seems like an abandonment of his values and his lifelong stance about the importance of the arts in community, economic, and human development. I understand what a difficult position the Governor is in […]

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This is a blog by Chuck D and Theresa Johnson from the Huffington Post: The Arizona immigration bill — which Governor Jan Brewer has decided to sign into law — is racist, deceitful, and reflects some of the most mean-spirited politics against immigrants that the country has ever seen. The power that this law gives […]

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It seems that the Governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, is declaring April, ‘Confederate History Month‘. This might be a bad move; McDonnell’s rational for this is that the confederacy is a defining chapter in Virginia’s history and it should be studied, understood and remembered by all Virginians. The Confederacy was made up of eleven southern […]

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Virginia’s Republican Governor Bob McDonnell has declared April to be ‘Confederate History Month,’ the first time in 8 years that such a proclamation has been issued in the state. Peep what the Gov. had to say: ‘this defining chapter in Virginia’s history should not be forgotten, but instead should be studied, understood and remembered by […]

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New York Governor David Paterson has pulled the plug on his bid to seek reelection, a source close to the governor said Friday. Paterson will announce his decision on Friday. Paterson will not resign though, he will stay and serve the remainder of his term.  The Governor has been under fire for having contacted a […]