Posted at the Chron: The Bush tax cuts for the rich will add $3.8 trillion to the debt over the next ten years. “About $700 billion of that reflects the projected costs of tax cuts for those in the top 2 percent of income-earners.” According to Republicans, the top 2 percent are the “job creators” who use their tax savings to expand...

Today’s show: Horrible new employment numbers illustrate need for a new WPA, which would rebuild infrastructure and put millions to work. By the way, weren’t we told that lowering taxes on the rich would create jobs? How many jobs have been created by the Bush tax cuts for the rich? And by contrast, the CBO reports that between 1.2m-3.3m jobs were...

The Veterans Cemetery in Houston is under fire for what one anti-separation of church & state group claims is religious discrimination. What’s actually happening is that the VA is, to these right-wingers’ disappointment, following the Constitution…plus Col Shaggy has his first on-air doughnut and comes up with some new traffic terms. Listen...

There’s a proposal in Texas to issue license plates with Confederate flags on them. We talked about this insulting and morally bankrupt idea on the show today. Listen here. I’ve also got a post in the Chronicle on the issue. That’s...

My dad joins as co-host for the entire hour to discuss the marriage equality/civil rights debate going on in NY, the religious conservatives who want to impose their theocratic view of government on everybody else and the way history will inevitably view them with the contempt they deserve. Listen...