Two Free Scripts for Last-Minute Ads
If the media narrative is to be believed, many middle-of-the-road voters are about to do something foolishly self-destructive in the November mid-terms: vote more Republicans into Congress.Sometimes...
View ArticleAndy Harris: The Face of Republican Bullsh*t -- UPDATE
Andy Harris (R-MD-01) is now--pathetic to say--my congressional representative. He's a typically stupid, selfish, venal, arrogant Republican who is hatefully hard on others while being hypocritically...
View ArticleDegenerate AZ Republicans Choose Money Over Life
The moral degenerates known as Republicans continue their devolution on a daily basis. They are transitioning from the merely selfish-and-uncompassionate party into the evil party. Now Arizona...
View ArticleBloomberg Channels John Maynard Keynes
I just saw Mike Bloomberg on Morning Joe delivering Keynesianism to the masses with a spare metaphor: Economic downturns are like a sale for government--cheap resources and cheap labor allow...
View ArticleWhy "Marx was right" is right
The very popular diary by goinsouth this week on Nouriel Roubini's statement that Marx was right received some comments trying to excuse capitalism itself from being responsible for the woes it seems...
View ArticleClueless about Capitalism
Newt Gingrich’s recent “attack” on the free-market has revealed that Americans are almost universally clueless about the nature of capitalism. The response from just about everyone, including expert...
View ArticleCatholics, Contraceptives, Conservatives, and the Constitution
The Obama administration's ruling that required church-affiliated institutions to provide birth-control coverage for their employees provoked a furor from the leaders of the Catholic Church. This...
View ArticleConservative Nature
Ever since the 2010 election, we've been treated to the spectacle of a Republican party going out of control. The adolescent self-centeredness that animates so much of Republican activity has seemingly...
View ArticleMuslims EXEMPT from Health Care Mandate!? — Christian Fear and the...
A few days ago, I was a guest on Fairness Radio with Chuck Morse and Patrick O’Heffernan. In the course of our conversation, the claim was made that Muslims and other religious groups are exempt from...
View ArticleFortune Magazine gets to the bottom of Fast and Furious
As is probably obvious to everyone here at DKos, the uproar on the right over "Fast and Furious" is just another fear-mongering myth concocted by paranoid right-wing loonies and the media vampires who...
View ArticleAkin's Intransigence and Republican Ideology
This is just a note on the supreme irony of Todd Akin's refusal to heed the calls of his party for him to step aside.For most of my lifetime, Republicans have been only too happy to keep doubling down...
View ArticleNew Book Could Rocket the Youth Vote Even Higher than in 2008
A new ebook has just been published that could hold the key to getting even more young people out for this election than for the 2008 election. It's called Get Your Future Back!, by P. J. Cultor. It...
View ArticleDoes anybody else want to stoke the youth vote?
Last week I posted a book review that didn't get much attention. A few people have asked me to post it again, saying that it was a mistake to put it up during the DNC mania of last week.I don't know if...
View ArticleWorried About Youth Vote? Read Georges Daire's take on P. J. Cultor's new ebook.
Georges Daire has posted this piece about a new ebook that could change the dynamic of the youth vote in the run-up to the election. If you worry that young people may sit this one out, you really...
View ArticleThe Polls! The Polls!
Is there anything wrong with steveholt's analysis here of the polling since the Obama/Romney debate? He shows that before the debate the ratio of polls from reputable organizations to polls from...
View ArticleTales My Mother Told Me—About Republicans
I was six years old during the first presidential election I remember, the Kennedy-Nixon match-up of 1960. I had seen both of the candidates on TV quite a bit, and I knew that every grown-up was going...
View ArticleToday We Begin to Blot Out the Vice of Conservatism
Last night, the American people dealt another political blow to the right wing. They rebuffed Republican attempts to buy our national elections with unlimited money, repudiated Republican...
View ArticleThe Founding Myths of Conservatism
I'm continuing my reporting on the next installment from Conservative Estimate, the new website that is devoted to demolishing Conservatism. Today's post introduces the seven "Major Myths" that...
View ArticleConservative Myth of Scarcity, Part 1: Food, Water, and Land
I'm continuing my reporting on the next installment from Conservative Estimate, the new website that is devoted to demolishing Conservatism. Today, Alfred George begins to show why the fear of...
View ArticleConservative Myth of Scarcity 2: Energy and Money
I'm continuing my reporting on the next installment from Conservative Estimate, the recently founded website that is devoted to demolishing Conservatism. Today, Alfred George continues to show why the...
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