Part II — Who is telling all those lies…and why? They met on the mall in Washington, that renowned place for great assemblies. They were baby-boomers and beyond and overwhelmingly white. (Maybe when you call a Liberal African-American President, raised by white grandparents a ‘racist” as Glenn Beck did, you may turn away people of [...]
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The Grand Illusion
August 30th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Lobbying, Media, Politics
Part I – Looming disaster and how we got here The Tea Party Movement is neither a movement nor has it anything to do with the traditions of freedom represented by the American Revolution. It is in fact, ironically, about the impulse of an uneducated and badly led society to permit the restriction of its [...]
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CPAC Conference: Armey Firing Blanks
February 19th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics
Dick Armey gave a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday. He walked in wearing a cowboy hat. He was ready to take aim and fire at the Obama Administration. Unfortunately, he was firing blanks. Almost every word that came out of his mouth was a complete fabrication. Not only did he, frankly, lie [...]
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The Big Lie
October 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics
The Big Lie. We know what that is…the concept, that is. It is not a new concept. It is the idea that if you tell a big enough lie and tell it often enough people will begin to believe it. But it has been revived in the last 30 years.The idea that, for example, you [...]
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