Republicans are of course against class warfare, the poor against the rich, the middle class against the rich. And so they should be; the corporate elite of the country and what George H.W. Bush called “the investing classes” have already won that war, at least in the private sector. But, seizing the circumstances of hard times, the Republicans are promoting intramural class warfare by pitting what is left of the private-sector middle class against the public-sector middle class.

As America's middle class battles for its survival on the Wisconsin barricades, fans of enlightenment, democracy and justice can take comfort from a significant victory north of the Wisconsin border. Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canada regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news.

We’re in a situation where we have so many people who are disconnected from possibility that it is on the brink of social dynamite. Huge swaths of this country have lost everything that defines their culture.

Our own U.S. Capitol has played a seditious role in our economy. They have used their political power to rig the tax laws to shift the wealth disproportionately to the top, and they used that same power to break the back of organized labor in the private sector by the wholesale export of our industries.