I’ve been saying for years now that the U.S. economic picture was facing a startling wake up call when the squeezing of the middle class reached the boiling point, when the housing bubble popped, when corporate America’s cost cutting scraped … read more
The little Dutch boy would need to hire a crew of Mexicans to help him plug all the holes in the Bush Administration’s wall of defense. Unfortunately for them, Alberto Gonzales was not one of them today. His clear failure … read more
Our glorious leader today declared that he opposed expanding the nation’s small, but popular health care insurance plan for low income families, State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) based on what his staffers call “philosophical grounds.” If that isn’t the … read more
What is a Republican anyway? What the hell do they stand for? They now claim about the Democrats what we’ve been claiming about them for years: that they don’t really stand for anything. They define themselves by opposition to every … read more
While the site went through 9 months of preparation, the official birth of Soapblox came on a warm summer day in 2005, it was July 4th. Since that day, not much has changed here at Soapblox. We have learned a … read more