Wisconsin news made The Rachel Maddow Show again last night. That's because on Monday, coal ash from the grounds of We Energies' Oak Creek Power Plant was swept into Lake Michigan when a shoreline bluff collapsed during construction — ironically, for an air quality...
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C. Peter Wagner’s New Apostolic Reformation
It was on The Rachel Maddow Show back on August 10 that I first heard of the New Apostolic Reformation. That segment aired just before Rick Perry entered the 2012 presidential race, and just after his August 6th prayer rally — "The Response" — at Houston's Reliant...
Paul Ryan is Dagwood Bumstead
In the video clip above we see Rachel Maddow, aggravated over Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and the tendency of the news media to portray him as a bright and earnest young man on the rise — a numbers-whiz with a sharpened pencil behind his ear who has the guts to level...
Rachel Maddow Show: ‘Shock Doctrine’ used to take over Michigan towns
This segment on last night's Rachel Maddow Show regarding the Shock Doctrine and the governor of Michigan was jaw-dropping. (Read the transcript here.) Apparently, new laws speeding through the Michigan Legislature will empower Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to appoint...
Green Bay Packers ownership: A socialist success story
The Green Bay Packers' unique history, hometown, and ownership have been in the spotlight the past few weeks, and last night MSNBC's Rachel Maddow closed her show with an admiring look (video clip above) at the NFL's only remaining old-school team town, and the...
Eric Holder and Second Amendment, Eric Holder and firearms
The video clip above, regarding Eric Holder's record on guns, from last night's installment of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, is a fantastic thumbnail of this midterm election. Rachel Maddow took her show to Anchorage, Alaska. The demonstrators shown here are...
Rachel Maddow: Miracle on the Hudson wrought by jobs well done
Yesterday afternoon, Steve Dahl tweeted that he was already sick of the "Mirace on the Hudson" coverage of US Airways Flight 1549. I know what he means. TV news has mastered the process by which the most astounding occurrence is instantly hyped so full of grandiose...
The Great Recession of 2008
I cannot process the economic depression is unfolding here in the U.S.A. over the last few days. A crushing, amorphous weight has me plastered to the sofa in front of the TV. My breathing is labored, and my heart stops beating every now and then for ten or fifteen...