Oscar Grant and Police Reform
By Nick Sifuentes - Jan 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pmThe Bay Area has been roiled by the shooting of an unarmed man by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer and the resulting protests…
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Head for the Hills
By Nick Sifuentes - Jan 6th, 2009 at 3:40 pmDescribing the city as a “deeply unnatural and overwhelming place,” Jonah Lehrer writes a lengthy paean to the countryside in The Boston Globe, anchored by…
Shooting the Elephant in the Room
By Nick Sifuentes - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 amBecause it’s exactly the sort of thing we would cover here at Pushback if it happened at any other organization, we would be remiss if…
Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull, No Brains
By Nick Sifuentes - Dec 18th, 2008 at 11:05 amCampbell Brown, a journalist in the fine CNN tradition that has brought you Nancy Grace and Glenn Beck, hosts one of the most extraordinarily vapid…
No Big Surprises Here
By Nick Sifuentes - Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:15 amRick Warren
The lefty blogosphere and gay rights advocates are furious at Obama’s selection of Rick Warren as the preacher who will deliver the invocation…
The Worst Idea on Infrastructure Spending Ever.
By Nick Sifuentes - Dec 4th, 2008 at 9:28 amThis article on Clusterstock is easily the stupidest thing I have seen on the Internet about infrastructure spending.
Every single sentence is replete with idiocy,…
Bush Is Determined to Screw the Middle Class Forever
By Nick Sifuentes - Dec 2nd, 2008 at 5:03 pmIs anyone surprised that the Bush administration has undertaken a systematic, long-range approach to dismantling worker protections at every stage possible? Yesterday, the White House…
Can’t Get a Nut
By Nick Sifuentes - Dec 1st, 2008 at 2:29 pmPity the squirrel. As a recent Washington Post article points out , several species of oaks are failing to produce acorns this year, leaving residents…
Isn’t a Robot Governor Enough?
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 25th, 2008 at 3:52 pmWhen I first read this story from The New York Times, my initial reaction was to find anyone I could named John Connor and hide…
Syzygy
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 21st, 2008 at 10:38 amNot only is it an awesome word that I never get to use, but it also describes the current state of the healthcare debate. Watch…
The Almighty Creator Weighs In
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 20th, 2008 at 5:41 pmSo it seems that God Herself has finally decided to get off her duff and chime in, via an amicus brief, on the California same-sex…
RFK Jr. Would Make a Terrible Head of the EPA
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 14th, 2008 at 4:55 pmRumors are swirling that the Obama transition team may be eyeing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to head up the Environmental Protection Agency. Despite his left-leaning…
Sen. Baucus: The Last Guy I Expected to See with a Mandate
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 13th, 2008 at 10:11 amThe progressive blogosphere is abuzz with the news that Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate, has announced a…
After 8: The Way Forward
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 11th, 2008 at 12:30 pmPart three of a three-part post (here are parts one and two).
If we are to undo the injustice done by Proposition 8 and the…
John Podesta at the Center of it All
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pmMichael Crowley’s piece in The New Republic highlights a particularly important figure in the nascent Obama administration: CEO of Center for American Progress and the…
