PPTS: May 4, 2014 The Battle For Reason (Part II)
"Progressive Politics:Tennessee Style" (PPTS) has been looking, for some time now, at "The War on the Poor!". I have determined eight "battlefields" upon which a majority of this war, from my...
View ArticleTennessee Republican compares Obamacare to the Holocaust, and means it
Oh, right. That guy.Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield, who we have heard from before due to his status as a thundering moron, blogs his "Thought of the day."Democrats bragging about the number of...
View ArticleSaturday nutpick-a-palooza: Feminists hate men so, so much!
Today's source material: It's becoming faddish again to mentally bra-burn. The Times found twenty-something feminist actresses who are perpetually outraged at people's failure to bow to feminism. HBO...
View ArticleWater Wars: A prologue
What to make of the following, gargantuan contradiction?1. As climate change leads to ocean levels tens of feet higher later in this century, and as coastal cities already are estimating the initial...
View Article9/11/2014: A Special PPTS Presentation
On this thirteenth anniversary of "that moment" which changed forever the landscape of America and her citizens, "Progressive Politics: Tennessee Style" (PPTS) will present a very special hour-long...
View ArticleHispanic man delivers absentee ballots in Arizona: Conservatives demand he be...
LOOK OUT EVERYONE HE'S REALLY REALLY TANThis may be the stupidest conservative panic to come over the transom all year. All. Year.In the video — which was posted at Glenn Beck’s The Blaze under the...
View ArticleDaily Kos Elections Power Rankings: The final countdown
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) ends 2014 atop the Power Rankings for competitive Senate races. After the long two-year midterm cycle, we are now down to the final sprint. Within 72 hours, we will have the...
View ArticleHOMELESS IN AMERICA
This is a very personal diary today. It deals with a topic that is near to my heart, because I am currently homeless. The path that led me here is a story that could belong to anybody.My husband and I...
View ArticleWhat Are You For?
In the grit and grime of the political life, we often get caught up, and carried away with the process.GOTV and the eternal campaign for dollars are necessary to any politician. It has always been so....
View ArticleWill You Help these Causes....Help for them is needed !
Well I wrote a diary regarding the minimum Wage and got some really strange debate from what sounded like Wall Street folks. I observed so much debate against the minimum wage and actually some...
View ArticleHuckabee Goes Into A Rage Over Kim Davis' Arrest And Religious Freedom At GOP...
According to Mike Huckabee, the SCOTUS just legislated marriage equality rather than interpret the US Constitution. They just created same-sex marriage rights "out of thin air." And, now good...
View ArticleUht Oh! Tennessee Is At It Again! Calling Kim Davis!
There is currently before the Tennessee State Legislature a bill which sets out to nullify the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding Same Sex Marriage...and, for that matter any other ruling by that or...
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