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Trump’s Job Promise: Can He Build A Wall Around Automation?

Moving through the 21st Century, automation, not aliens, has been the driving force in unemployment. Trump waived his magic “wall” wand over his rust-belt Cinderellas that eked out an electoral … Continue reading

January 1, 2017 · 1 Comment

The Betsy DeVos You Don’t Know: Trump’s Education Pick Just Plain Stupid

Hucksters of a feather stick together. President-elect Trump’s pick of Betsy DeVos, charter school queen, for Secretary of Education, is as politically seismic an event as Stephen Bannon, the fascist … Continue reading

November 27, 2016 · Leave a comment

Government is Good

“Demon government.”  The government is too BIG. Big Brother infringes upon “real” liberty. Government is Eeevil. Extremist conservatives rant and rave about gun confiscations and black helicopters. Extremist liberals rant and … Continue reading

October 15, 2013 · 5 Comments

Benghazi: Darrell Issa’s Last Outpost on the GOP Anti-Woman Frontier

Perhaps the only thing more angst-worthy for the white power structure that operates the Republican Party than a black man in the White House, and a tide of upwardly-mobile Latinos … Continue reading

May 9, 2013 · 4 Comments

If you vote Republican today, what are you REALLY voting FOR? Handing Your Freedoms Away

There are thousands of candidates and hundreds of measures before the voters today. The economy is number one on most American’s minds, yet it is the farthest thing from anything … Continue reading

November 6, 2012 · Leave a comment

When Politics Becomes Religion

“I Don’t Believe the Liberal Media”  is a bumper sticker, a mantra, and an ignorant badge of honor and a disturbing trend: Ignorance is Right-hip.  Birtherism, and baseless claims of … Continue reading

October 8, 2012 · 5 Comments

As Much Education as they Can Afford – Romney Remark Renews a Different Kind of Voter Suppression

Curbing access to higher education may be as, if not more significant, than voter disenfranchisement. Mitt Romney’s stump comment that students should “get as much education as they can afford,” soaring … Continue reading

July 3, 2012 · 4 Comments

Why Negative Political Attack Ads Work: 5 in 10 Americans Can’t Read, 8 in 10 Can’t Process

Negative political ads work. A majority of Americans form political opinions from ads in their entertainment programming. 51% of the adult population of the United States is barely functionally literate. … Continue reading

June 29, 2012 · 3 Comments

What Happens When the Far Right Really Ends Birth Control? The Malthusian Nightmare GOP Style

Rick Santorum and the men of the GOP rail on about Right-to-Life issues.  It’s a Republican conundrum: Appeasing the Religious Right creates a nightmarish welfare state abhorrent to selfish Libertarian … Continue reading

March 23, 2012 · 5 Comments

Arizona Alien Angst Causes Constitutionally Crooked Chicano Culture Clash

UPDATED 02.19.12 – In 1939, the Nazis burned books.  In the 1940s and 1950s, reactionaries in McCarthyist Cold War America burned and banned them.   Today the implementation of HB 2281 has given … Continue reading

February 19, 2012 · Leave a comment

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