Stewart Acuff

May 15

Building the Resources Needed to Protect Democracy

Perhaps the single Supreme Court decision most threatening to American democracy is the Citizens United case, which ruled that corporations are people and money is speech; therefore corporations are entitled to spend all the

Apr 30

Radical Right-Wing Republican Knuckle Draggers

This bunch of right-wing radical Republicans in Congress have to be amongst the most dim-witted politicians since a Senate was first convened in ancient Greece. First, their answer to every question, including how we get

Apr 26

Progressive Values vs. the Values of the Radical Right

Yesterday, I joined the conversation on John Case’s morning labor radio show at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. It was not an unfamiliar scene for me. I’ve been going up for John’s 7

Mar 29

How the Sequester is Jeopardizing Our Safety

The Huffington Post has reported that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is closing 149 air traffic control towers at America’s airports. The FAA is laying off or furloughing so many air traffic controllers that they

Mar 25

No Amount of Re-Branding Will Save the Radical Right!

Right-wing Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus has done what has been alternately called a study of their electoral problems or an autopsy to decide how to re-brand themselves or figure out a new marketing

Mar 15

Protect The Big Three!

The radical rightwinger Paul Ryan has submitted his budget. 60% of his cuts come from healthcare for the poor. Did you ever notice that any of former Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan’s budgets

Mar 6

The Imperative of Change

In my blog Change is Coming, I provided ideas for a new and mostly complete agenda for America’s unions to fight our way out of the crisis that workers, our unions and country are

Jan 16

Dr. King was assassinated because he was a nonviolent revolutionary

In a wonderful irony of America’s continuing struggle with and for racial justice, President Obama’s second inauguration is on the same weekend as our Dr. King Holiday, the man who led the nonviolent revolution

Jan 8

We Take Care of Our Own!

It is 11 pm and I will be up at 5 to do a morning radio show at the Shepherdstown University radio station. I’m staying at the home of John Case, a retired union

Jan 3

Knife in the Back

“Knife in the back”… That’s the phrase the Republican Long Island Congressman Peter King said about Republican Speaker John Boehner and the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. It is “why the American people

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