Mike Elk: Republicans Oppose Using Federal FEMA Funds for Snow Removal
This past week the Northeast has been ravaged by blizzards not seen in several decades. However states facing increasing budget cuts have been unable to...
Mike Elk: The Great Snowball Fight of Malcolm X Park & the Political Power of Laughter
With two feet of snow on the ground, there wasn't a car on the roads of Northwest Washington, D.C. However, the roads were packed though...
Mike Elk: What Getting Dumped by My Girlfriend Taught Me About Being Dumped by Obama
It was a cold February night when I got together with Irene to watch Obama's first budget address to Congress. Irene was a drop-dead gorgeous...
Mike Elk: Jane Hamsher Gets It Wrong on Unions Not Leading the Fight Against the Banks
AFL CIO President Richard Trumka has been the leading voice of the progressive movement on these issues, twisting the arms of Democrats behind the scenes to get them to push for tougher financial reform legislation.
Mike Elk: Obama Says “I Don’t Want to Punish the Banks”, Despite Thousands of Crimes Unpunished
Last night during the State of the Union, President Obama while calling for tough financial reform said, he "was not interested in punishing the banks"....
Mike Elk: My Crazy Trip to a Goldman Sachs Executive’s Brazilian Slave Plantation
I have made friends with a lot of people in my life. But as working-class kid from Pittsburgh, perhaps my most unusual friendship was with...
Mike Elk: Abandoning EFCA Is Obama’s Political Suicide: Lessons From Three Presidents on Workers’ Rights
Whatever happened to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)? Is it dead? I remember sitting in a meeting last May with Senate staff who said...
Mike Elk: My Grandmother Takes a Stand for Gay Marriage in Church Despite Loving Glenn Beck
I was shocked when I heard that my conservative Grandma had stormed out of church after her pastor denounced "being gay as the worst sin."...
Mike Elk: Wall Street’s Favorite Democrat Melissa Bean Aims To Weaken Current Bank Regulation
Here she goes again: Wall Street's favorite Democrat, Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., is once again shilling for the banks. As I wrote back in October,...
Mike Elk: Liberal Elistism Will Make Sarah Palin President – How Only Union Ogranizing Can Stop It
Conservatives win many votes saying that liberals are elitist. I am here to tell you that the liberal movement is indeed very elitist. Its organization's...
Mike Elk: Labor Leader Trumka To Testify Against “Reform” Bill Deemed “TARP on Steroids”
After leading the dramatic three day Showdown in Chicago at the American Bankers Association (ABA) Convention in Chicago, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will head to...
Mike Elk: Martin Luther King Would Have Loved the Teabaggers, Not Called Them Racists
Very few of us have made any attempt to really reach out to the teabaggers on the issues that we share with them. We could lock arms with them and form a powerful alliance; but instead we attack each other.
