Not My Mother's Blog

Dear Joe, Lately, you’ve been musing a lot about things like why the president’s approval rating on things like health care and the economy is dropping. You’ve been asking dramatically why people are so. afraid. of. change. You wonder why the polls show that fewer and fewer people like the “president’s health care plan” or [...]

Good on Carlos Watson this morning for pushing back against Rep. Mike Pence’s attempt to score talking points with the low math-low-info crowd. In a conversation about the cost of health care reform, Pence asserted that the bill currently in committee would raise taxes by $1 trillion dollars. At that point, Watson interrupted Pence to [...]

The Robin Hood Foundation is an organization headed up by a group of some of the United States’ wealthiest families and individuals. The Foundation’s mission is to make this world a better place through charitable giving and donations. In many ways, the Robin Hood Foundation represents the best and highest ideals to which a charitable [...]

Cynicism is dangerous. It stands in the way of our progress as a country. We don’t have to be naive. We don’t have to be fools drinking the Koolaid. We just have to step back and let a little reality in – and we might find that just like the sunshine, it brightens up the whole world.

I love Rachel Maddow. She has a way of putting things into sharp perspective. Take her short segment tonight on the new minimum wage, which went into effect in the U.S. today. Here’s the math on how the new minimum wage affects the ability to purchase health care in this country. Annual Gross Salary @ [...]

For those who are just hearing about the whole Obama birth certificate lunacy, it must be confusing as all hell. I mean, after all, Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to a mother who was a United States citizen. Based on what most people understand about citizenship and the law, that makes him a natural born citizen two times over – he was born on U.S. soil and his mother is a natural born citizen. Therefore, really, it shouldn’t matter where he was born, right?