The 1% of the 1% and their agents like Grover Norquist have been selling “demon government,” but it is big business, not big government, that is the real Big Brother. Read the rest of this entry »
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An Elephant May Never Forget, but the GOP and a Greedy Media Sure Hope Like Hell That You Will
In 2012, Auto Bailout, Barack Obama, Big Insurance, Big Oil, Big Three Auto Makers, Bureaucracy, Business, Campaign 2012, Corporatocracy, Defense Contractors, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, GOP, Grover Norquist, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Jobs, Koch Brothers, Legislation, LGBT, Liberals, Living, Mitt Romney, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Race, Racism, Religious Right, Republicans, Special Interests, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Senate, The White House, Unions, Women's Rights, Years on May 9, 2012 at 1:11 am
An elephant may never forget, but the elephants of the GOP are sure hoping that you will, well, overlook a few inconvenient truths in their march to bring back 19th century capitalism without a social safety net. Sadly, so does the media caught between the story and an epic pay day.
Their vested interest and power, without regard to consequence or the welfare of the nation, is only countered by you.
Elephant Droppings: The Far Right’s 10 Most Wanted
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Power. That’s the name of the game in Republican politics. Not principle. Not vision. Who are the core players in that power game? t2P has combed several lists of ‘key’ Republican players from the two opposing forces in the Radical Right, the Libertarians and the Neo Cons. Our top ten list represents the people who, through political clout, money, or both, are seminal driving forces that corrupt Republican politics and push it to the extremist ends that it promotes today.
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Trayvon Martin: Justice Should Be Blind, not Racially Tone Deaf
In 2012, African-American, African-Americans, Barack Obama, Bureaucracy, Communities, Democrats, Federal Government, Florida, GOP, Ideologies, Justice Department, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Race, Racism, Republicans, Special Interests, States, The Congress, Years on March 28, 2012 at 8:24 pm
UPDATED – If a woman is being stalked, the stalker can be penalized just for doing that. A young black man walking in a predominantly white Florida neighborhood is not so lucky. When the law is on the side of the stalker, it perverts the very meaning of the word “justice” in our legal system. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Koch Brothers Contango Strategy: Oil Prices as Political WMD Against Obama
In 2012, ABC News, Americans for Tax Reform, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Bureaucracy, Business, Campaign 2012, CBS News, CNN, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Corporate-controlled Media, Corporatocracy, Current TV, Dead Billionaires Club, Democrats, DeVos Family Foundations, Elections, Elizabeth Warren, Facebook, Fascism, Federal Government, Fox News, GOP, Grover Norquist, Ideologies, Jack Abramoff, Koch Brothers, Liberals, Lobbyists, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, NBC News, Neo Conservatives, Newspapers, Newt Gingrich, Organizations, Partisan News, Patriotism, PBS, Politics, Republicans, Rick Perry, Roger Ailes, Ron Paul, Social Media, Tea Party, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Senate, The White House, Totalitarianism, Wall Street Journal, Years on March 5, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Gasoline prices are up. These ‘mysterious’ spikes every few months are palmed off on Libya or Iran, but they trace back to the Koch Brothers “contango” strategy. With an economy on the mend, are the billionaire brothers turning a profit center into a political weapon of mass destruction aimed at their very public enemy, Barack Obama?
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Sunday Funnies
In 2012, Boston Globe, Bureaucracy, Campaign 2012, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, Fox News, GOP, Liberals, Media, Media News & Criticism, Neo Conservatives, Newspapers, Newt Gingrich, Politico, Politics, Religious Right, Republicans, Sunday Funnies, t2P Political Art, Tea Party, Television News, The Congress, Years on February 12, 2012 at 12:02 pm
It’s our Sunday round-up of some of the best cartoons and graphic art protests we’ve found around the web. Check out more by these fine artists and graphic illustrators by clicking on the link to their sites:
A State of the Union, Without Rebuttal
In 2012, ABC News, American Values, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bobby Jindal, Bureaucracy, CBS News, CNN, Constitution, Current TV, Democrats, Federal Government, Fox News, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, GOP, Ideologies, Jimmy Carter, Joe Wilson, John Boehner, Liberals, Libertarian, Media, Media News & Criticism, Mitch McConnell, MSNBC, NBC News, Neo Conservatives, New Media, Newspapers, Partisan News, Patriotism, PBS, Political Punditry, Politics, Radio News, Republicans, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Tea Party, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Senate, The White House, Totalitarianism, Washington Press Corps, Years on January 23, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Democrats have a few whopping-bad ideas that we inject from time-to-time into the political system. One of them, the “response” to the State of the Union address, initiated under King Richard of Nixon in 1966, really has to go. [1] Read the rest of this entry »
Why The West Must Maintain The Moral High Ground
In Al Qaeda, American Values, Barack Obama, Blackwater, Bureaucracy, Christianity, Constitution, Defense Contractors, Dick Cheney, Faiths, Federal Government, First Amendment, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Homeland Security, Ideologies, International, Islam, John McCain, New York, Osama Bin Laden, Patriotism, Racism, Religious Right, Special Interests, The Congress, The Pentagon, The White House, Totalitarianism, Washington on January 6, 2012 at 5:02 am
I was born to Chinese parents. Raised as a Christian in a Muslim country. And we spoke English as a first language at home.
Which is, to say, I grew up in the most eclectic of environments. Where the singing of Methodist hymns was as familiar a sound to me as the Muslim call to prayer during dawn and dusk. And where I celebrated Chinese New Year and Christmas just surely as I celebrated the festival of Eid alongside Muslim friends.
I didn’t see it as exotic. Or intriguing. Or strange. It was just the nature of life in Malaysia. Read the rest of this entry »
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Santorum Rises Armed with Super PAC Nukes, not Populist Wave
In 2011, 2012, Barack Obama, Bureaucracy, Campaign 2012, Christianity, Corporatocracy, Dead Billionaires Club, Democrats, DeVos Family Foundations, Elections, Faiths, Federal Government, Focus on the Family, Foster Friess, George W. Bush, GOP, Ideologies, Iowa, Jack Abramoff, Koch Brothers, Legislation, LGBT, Libertarian, Lobbyists, McCain-Feingold, Mike Huckabee, Neo Conservatives, New Media, Politics, Ralph Reed, Religious Right, Republicans, Rick Santorum, Right to Life Movement, Special Interests, States, The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson, Years on January 6, 2012 at 12:14 am
The rapid rise in fortunes for the Rick Santorum campaign was not a sudden surge of populism. The real story of Tuesday’s Iowa Caucuses is that the hand of the uber-rich Libertarian and ultra-Christian Right can tilt elections, and tilt them quickly by way of the new Super PAC slush funds made possible by the Citizens United decision.
He profited from a surge of cash from shadowy SuperPACs which can form and fund candidates, then dissolve well before the Federal Election Commission (FEC) or the media can ascertain who they are, or who is behind them.
These will be the nuclear weapons of the 2012 political season, millions of shadow money being laundered before it is dumped into political campaigns by narrow-interest billionaires.
“Father Knows Best” is Not Common Sense
In 2011, Barack Obama, Bureaucracy, Campaign 2012, Democrats, Elections, FDA, Federal Government, Health Care, Living, Politics, Right to Life Movement, Special Interests, Years on December 15, 2011 at 11:54 am
It was bad enough that last week when Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in an unprecedented move for an HHS secretary, overturned the FDA’s approval of her department’s decision to release the Plan B One Step morning after emergency contraceptive for women as an over-the-counter medication, regardless of age.
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