The GOP and the Black Strawman
GOP candidates have been running against the “Black Strawman.” They have created a position, easily refuted by facts and evidence, which plays to basest fears, and the generational racial bias … Continue reading
A State of the Union, Without Rebuttal
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 … Continue reading
GOP Smackdown: The Winner of South Carolina won’t be Romney, Gingrich, Santorum or Paul
There will be one loser in Saturday’s South Carolina primary: The GOP. The winner will be Citizens United, which has unleashed the Godzillas of funding in the Battle of the … Continue reading
Romney Wins in Iowa and New Hampshire Miss Mandate Mark
The public face of the Romney campaign is projecting power and trying to coalesce the GOP faithful around him. Privately, both the candidate and the GOP have to be worried. … Continue reading
Santorum Rises Armed with Super PAC Nukes, not Populist Wave
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 … Continue reading
How The Gingrinch Stole An Election
Every Plebe Down in Plebe-ville Liked Freedom a lot, But the Gingrinch, Who lived just North of Plebe-ville Did NOT! The Gingrinch hated real freedom. The whole “we’re all equal” … Continue reading
The Dead Billionaires Club – The Dead Can’t Vote, but Should They Give?
If the dead can’t vote in Chicago, should they be allowed to influence politics from the grave in Pittsburgh and Denver and New York? The Koch brothers may be the … Continue reading
I Pledge Allegiance to Grover Norquist…
Who is Grover Norquist? His name oozes up when his “tax pledge” hamstrings Republicans who aren’t dye-in-the-wool Teahadis. Norquist is an extremist Corporatocratist with the self-stated goal of ending all … Continue reading
Will You Be the New American Exceptionalism?
Education is not just a cornerstone of Democracy: It is our foundation, our bedrock. It is crumbling beneath our feet because the 1% who hold power know that education means … Continue reading
Impropriety, Thy Names Art Scalia and Thomas
We really have to thank Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas for last Thursday’s enlightening lesson in Supreme Court hypocrisy. Just hours after considering whether to take on the review … Continue reading
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