Anyone can call someone else a name. People call others Fascists or Nazis all the time on the Internet. People who have these little backwoods militia are often called Nazi-wannabees or actually in some cases call themselves Nazis. But the fact is that the term “Fascist” has a specific meaning. While Nazis were Fascists, many [...]
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Are the Republicans Really Fascists? A Comparison.
October 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Politics, Populism, Science & Technology, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Tags: Are Republicans Fascists·Fascism·Fascism and Republicans·Fascism and the GOP·Fascism and the Neocons·Fascism and the Tea Party
The Neocons
August 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Science & Technology, taxes, Wall Street
When the current American Right Wing propaganda machine heats up it is very difficult to sift through the lies and the deliberate distractions to go directly to the facts. There are a dozen obfuscations along the way. And not merely for the overview of the last ten years, but for each single affront to American [...]
Tags: Karl Rove·Neocon politics·the Neconservative movement·the Neoconservative political theory·The Neoconservative Republican Party·the Neoconservatives·the Tea Party
Net Neutrality–Free Speech on the Internet
July 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Courts and the Law, Economics, Media, Politics, Science & Technology
Someone asked recently, “What can I do?” when it comes to issues of political and economic power being used as a wedge or leverage against the average American. Sometimes there is very little anyone can do. For instance, the Supreme Court recently made several rulings setting back established law 60 or 70 years. It has [...]
Tags: communications over the Internet·FCC·freedom of speech·net neutrality·Telecom lobbying·the Internet
Facts About Global Warming
April 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, energy, General, International affairs, Science & Technology
The fact is that the earth is warming. Glaciers are melting, and most importantly, the earth’s weather patterns are beginning to change. Northwest United States, which in some parts had over 150 glaciers in the early 1910s, now has less than 40. Some areas of the Arctic ocean that had been impassable now can be [...]
Tags: cap and trade·carbon dioxide·carbon emissions·climate change·climate stabilization·effects of increased temperatures·global warming
The Bible and the Federalist Papers
April 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics, Science & Technology
The year 1776 was not much different from the year 76. In both years and eras there were no airplanes, cars, electric lights, radio, telephone, telegraph, television, Ipods or Ipads. There was no electricity, no steam, no combustion engine, no natural gas power, not even propane. There was no Internet, nor were there railroads, buses, [...]
Tags: Federalist Papers·Federalist Society·Neoconservative propaganda·revisionist politics·Right Wing politics·tea parties
Jobs, Wind, Solar, Natural Gas, Kerry, Boxer, Carbon and the Obstructionists
October 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, jobs, Politics, Science & Technology
We need jobs and we need them soon. We have about 15.1 million people unemployed, with jobs falling now at the (slowing) rate of about 200,000 per month. That’s almost one out of ten people unemployed and more than that if you consider those who would like full-time employment but have been in part-time employment [...]
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New Energy Jobs Coming From Either Democrats or Republicans
October 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics, Science & Technology
Yesterday the Democratic Senate announced its new “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.” Soon after a group of GOP Senators discussed their similar legislation, with the differences in the two being what you would imagine. Clean energy means different things to the two political parties. The Democratic proposal involves the development of new clean energy sources, [...]
Tags: Congress·conservation·democrats·energy·environment·green jobs·jobs·Republicans