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    Profile of a Neoconservative: How Neocons Think and Vote.

    March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics, jobs, wars and militarism

    Peter Roskam was elected in 2006 to fill the seat of Rep. Henry Hyde, who retired and died. Roskam is a typical Neoconservative Republican…e.g., a Neocon. He had been a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives. He was in favor of cutting taxes. (Not very controversial.) He was in favor of preventing [...]

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    More Idiotic Propaganda From the GOP Lunatic Fringe

    March 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Media, Politics

    The Republicans have lost the battle against health care for their supporters in the health insurance industry. With no more stalling options, they are trying to use propaganda to scare and distract Americans about the federal government. Most of it is just gibberish.
    Be assured of one thing. We are in no [...]

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    The Communist Fallacy

    March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics

    You might want to take everything you know about our country and have a second look.
    We all used to participate in the defense of our country. Now we have young people, mostly poor, trying to get ahead, who risk their lives for a college education while others, not risking their lives, go to college [...]

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    The Next American Revolution

    February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism

    It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]

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    We Can’t All “Just Get Along.” Here’s Why.

    February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics

    Our political system is broken. It didn’t happen accidentally. It was deliberate and it has been happening for a long time, gradually, methodically. Corporations have taken all their chips and gone all-in with the Neoconservative Republicans. And the Neocons are now 100% for corporations. They are the arm of corporations in Congress.
    Take the Republican [...]

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    The Sunday Not-So-Funnies

    January 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics

    The Sunday morning news and opinion programs draw very few crowds. As with many things having to do with politics…only unimportant things like…life….and….death, the American people are more involved with people who sing, dance, tell awful jokes or appear on situation comedies where the entire universe of people laughing is relegated to the laugh track. [...]

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    Reagan and the Biggest Lie

    January 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · General, Media, Politics, wars and militarism

    In 1980, Ronald Reagan had been preparing to become President, a role he had cherished, for at least ten years. He wanted it more than his acting career. Reagan had stumbled into acting. He had the two essential requirements, for a motion picture actor of his early days… a pleasing face and a distinctive voice. [...]

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    The Myth of the American Political Center

    December 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics

    Because of the intensity of the debate on health care reform, and the Republican ideological war on the middle class, we are now hearing much talk about the “American Center,” the supposedly independent political middle. The fact is that there is no political middle, polls notwithstanding. The only poll that matters, politicians will tell you [...]

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    Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.

    December 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics

    Shame on the Neoconservatives, as they call themselves. They want to be called “Republicans.” But we can’t really call them Republicans, can we? They are not traditional Republicans. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were more or less traditional Republicans. Neoconservatives are more like the old Dixiecrats. In fact the manic racist Strom Thurmond [...]

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    Fools, Damned Fools, Morons…and Sean Hannity

    December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Media, Politics

    There are a number of so-called commentators who are paid enormous sums to distort the truth on Fox News Channel in order to persuade poor and middle class people to vote against their own best interests. Sean Hannity is perhaps foremost among those.
    If you tell a sophisticated New Yorker that Sean Hannity is basically from [...]

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    The Great Right-Wing Propaganda War

    November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics, jobs

    There is a war going on in this country. It is a war against the American People and a war against the truth. It is not being waged by terrorists but by a group of hugely wealthy, arch-conservative individuals who merely want…more. Their personal assets, both individually and collectively are in the billions and they [...]

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    Lou Dobbs and the Mystery of the Missing Birth Certificate

    November 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, International affairs, Media, Politics

    Lou Dobbs has been on the air for 30 years. In chronological years, he is not an old man these days. But in keeping up with the times, in educating himself, and in thinking of the future, is he living in a past age? Has time passed him bye? Does he still wear brown shoes [...]

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    What’s in a Name? Republicans Are Now the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party

    October 31st, 2009 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Media, Politics

    Shakespeare and the current Republican Party do not exactly fit within the same imagery. We do not see Sarah Palin quoting Shakespeare,  something that might not surprise us to hear from either the President or the Vice President. The point is that we have long, long since reduced our  expectations of erudition or even fiscally [...]

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    Reality, Dreams and Politics

    October 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, Media, Politics

    Every day we live our lives, most of us, in stark reality. Some of us may say: What? Stark reality? Few of us think of “reality” as being stark or even thinking of our daily lives as being reality. We live in an atmosphere that is a visual and audible perception of events, a parade [...]

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    There are Lies…Damned Lies…And Then There Is Fox News!

    October 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics

    Rupert Murdoch is not a likable man. He deals in…is mired in…sleaze media. But like the operator of any profitable strip club, he knows his business. From a sleaze-business operator’s standpoint, he is both successful and from the purely business point of view–the abstract point of view–he could be said to elicit some appreciation for [...]

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