Political Progressives

The front pages of our newspapers are not filled with good news these days. There’s Ebola to worry about from Africa. Domestic abuse scandals with the NFL at home. But while those two issues seem to be occupying the public’s attention for now, a larger threat looms: the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (or […]

In our last post, we were pretty harsh on the police officers of Ferguson and St. Louis. And, to be fair, understandably so. Our police officers are trained to protect and serve us, and the fact that they have taken several steps which seem to indicate they’re more interested in protecting themselves than protecting is […]

At Political Progressives, we have a mixed opinion on The Daily Show. We’re disappointed that people are increasingly using his comedy show (and The Colbert Report) as their source of daily news. This is frustrating because Stewart and Colbert would be the first to tell you that their shows are not news shows at all. […]

Yesterday while our writer was at his local game store, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the Republican National Convention was playing on the small TV usually reserved for Packer games or other life changing events. The conventions are always fun to watch, and it’s interesting to listen to the myriad of speeches made […]

Paul Ryan’s selection as Mitt Romney’s Vice President made a huge splash in the media and political worlds last weekend. It was very unexpected, and everyone had to quickly analyze the new candidate because he was so far down on most people’s VP lists. Ryan played things smart over his first week as the new […]

Yesterday, we made a somewhat surprising post detailing why we think Mitt Romney’s selection of WI Rep. Paul Ryan was a good thing. Some of our readers initially thought that we meant that the selection was “good” for Democrats and that we were bashing the pick for Republicans. Not true. We really do feel that […]

At PoliticalProgressives, we’ve made some pretty bold (and very far-out, timewise) predictions about the 2012 Presidential Race. Many have been wrong, and we’ll fess up to it. But we definitely predicted (almost a year and a half ago!) that this race would come down to Romney and Obama – and that Obama would win. We […]

As some of you who follow PoliticalProgressives know, our writer works for an educational camp during road construction season (or for those who live out of state: summer). While he enjoys the students very much during the eight weeks he works with them, they’ll be returning home very soon, and so after our summer recess, […]

Political Progressives was so disheartened when the Democrats fell just short of taking over the Senate in last year’s recall elections. It’s not like we bemoaned the fact that the Democrats were able to wrestle away two seats from Republicans in the middle of a term, but we weren’t ecstatic, either. 17-16 looked a whole […]

Perhaps it’s a sign we’ve been involved in politics for far too long, but we’re actually not surprised at how little the average person knows about politics. The fact that the vast majority of our country’s citizens could not pass a citizen exam is old news; the fact that a majority of GOP voters in […]