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Neoconservatives accuse Barack Obama of leading the United States down the road to communism. In reality, mainstream Democrats have become more fiscally conservative since the Cold War era. Obama is no more economically radical than Richard Nixon, whose presidency produced the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, increased . . . → Read More: WHY THE AMERICAN LEFT HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND (NO MATTER WHAT THE AMERICAN RIGHT CLAIMS) By Ben Easher On January 16, 2012, Mitt Romney tweeted that, “More Americans have lost their jobs under Barack Obama than any president in modern history.” I am so tired of hearing GOP Presidential candidates bash President Obama’s alleged folly. Instead, let’s focus on the last decade. First, according to the Wall Street Journal, the eight years . . . → Read More: Clarifying the Facts on Obama’s Job Creation Record, By Mark Erickson I was recently asked, “Did the Iraq War foment the Arab spring? Is this even a legitimate question?” To which I responded: Yes, absolutely a legitimate question. Although I would do the professory thing and say, well, do you mean it was the sole and exclusive catalyst/cause? or it was a factor? Maybe because . . . → Read More: Did the Iraq War Foment the Arab Spring? By Lawrence Spaulding To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication. Go here. Go here. Army Private Bradley Manning has been charged with aiding the enemy, transmitting defense information in violation of the Espionage Act and more than 20 other crimes. He could face life in a military prison. I viewed three of the files he is accused of illegally transmitting. Two had incident coordinates and basically nothing more . . . → Read More: Lax Army Oversight of Bradley Manning: How Did a Mere Private Gain Access to Highly Classified Information? By Mark Erickson Does America have Alzheimer’s?! How is it possible that we take in the regurgitated drivel of elections past with the appetite we demonstrate?! I swear I heard a republican say it was time for “change.” We need new ideas and the Republican Party has them. What in the hell is going on?! What we . . . → Read More: America is a Spoiled Brat that Needs a Spanking, By Paul Johnson Thanks to Mitch Hurst for this link: New Dominionists: Meet the Christian Couple Behind the Right’s Most Viral Videos – News – GOOD This is a bit much, but it might be a good conversation starter: Daily Kos: An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America Here’s the author’s website: www.jesselagreca.org …even if he wins the Iowa caucuses or comes in second, or third. And Ron Paul won’t be the next president if he wins either. Really. The importance of Iowa is not that it picks the winner, just ask President Pat Robertson or President Mike Huckabee, instead it helps identify the losers (or more . . . → Read More: Don’t Worry (or Celebrate?) Rick Santorum will Not be the Next President, by Lawrence Spaulding We’ll make an untrue attack ad accusing someone of supporting us. Orwell’s Doublespeak concept had nothing on today’s politics. – Steve Stav ”US press coverage has usually cast the Tea Party as an authentic expression of popular anger against Washington insiders. Anthony DiMaggio’s new book, Rise of the Tea Party, shatters such myths, demonstrating that the Tea Party has never been a genuine social movement or political outsider but rather an elite-dominated group that was closely . . . → Read More: The Tea Party Was Astro-Turfed – Democracy is All But Dead in the USA, By Anonymous January 14 – Arab Spring: Toppling of Tunisian Government marked the beginning of the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring otherwise known as the Arab Awakening, is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world against oppressive regimes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p9NJVgqgW8 March 11 – A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the . . . → Read More: The Most Significant Events of 2011 (IMO), By Eduardo Gomez I am a single guy. I have a retirement income of approximately the median income of a family of four. That means that I enjoy “surplus capital”–income I don’t need after I pay the rent, put food on the table, etc. Yes, I spend some of that “surplus capital” on non-essentials–computer, camera, music, etc. . . . → Read More: Confessions of a Capitalist – How I Contribute to the Economic Problem, By Ken Peck Today is Dec 7. Growing up in the shadow of world war, you remembered and honored those days. Days like Armistice Day and Pearl Harbor. When done rightly, the honor fell upon those who risked and gave their lives to stop global tyranny. When done badly, the day could become a day of self-righteous . . . → Read More: “I Did Things, Terrible Things” – PTSD Can Remain Long After War is Won, By Gordon Jack Schultz Full story is here. I think she’s either mentally deranged, on drugs, or just the result of centuries of inbreeding. Having said that, it is hilarious that she’s been arrested. That’s England for you! A punch in the mouth, maybe, but arrested… Well there’s a reason why we separated from England. Some Americans have forgotten the reason, but . . . → Read More: Racist Woman on Tram is Ultimately Arrested, By Steve Stav Keith Olbermann’s a disciple of Edward R. Murrow, but I find his addition of wry humor to the latter’s delivery paradigm to be hit-and-miss, though he maintains an admirable batting average. In contrast to Keith’s surging, bellowing blasts of Mayor Bloomberg, Murrow laid into Joseph McCarthy with this remarkably calm determination that watchers at . . . → Read More: Keith Olbermann’s Murrow-esque Excoriation of Michael Bloomberg, By Steve Stav
Seattle 11/17/2011 – Photo By Holly Homan. On Thursday November 17 I left my place of work, a high school in North Seattle, and headed five miles south to the south end of the University of Washington. Today’s march was in honor of the second month anniversary of the Occupy Movement. As I approached . . . → Read More: Occupy Seattle Occupies the University Bridge, By Holly Homan |
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