Actually, Joel Connelly, Labels Are Useful

by Steven HsiehWill this lettuce make me sick? Only one way to find out. Getty
In 2010, a group of centrists launched a national campaign in response to the gridlock and divisiveness that characterized much of the Obama administration. They called themselves No Labels. (Remember Akon? He wrote the group's theme song.) If you read No Labels' mission statement then, you wouldn't have be able to make out what they stood for other than wagging their fingers at the practice of politics. "Sign the No