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Entries Tagged as 'Neocon Republicans'

Nazi Is Not Always a Bad Word.

March 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Politics, wars and militarism

Not if it is used as a warning. Not if it describes a group out to get you. Not if it is the truth. When would we call someone a Nazi? Well, it is done all the time by those who don’t really mean it and have no basis for saying it. But when it [...]

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Neocon Republicans and the Super-Rich

December 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics, taxes

Now that the Neocon Republicans have shown us their colors in the bright light of day….no tax cuts for the lower 98% of Americans unless they can have huge tax cuts for the top 2%…we can get on about our business. They have made it clear who they are and whom they favor. Here is [...]

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Neocons and Neo-Fascists in the Global Village

July 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, International affairs, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism

What is America? Is it merely a flag? Is it an armed force, with tanks and guns and planes? After all, that’s what many people see in villages around the world. That’s what simple groups of small villagers saw in Iraq…people with no television, no media elite, no sophisticated intellectual government in their region to [...]

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Profiles in Obstruction # 1: Senator James DeMint

January 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Health Care, jobs, Politics, wars and militarism

It is too easy to simply make fun of or ridicule James DeMint. And of course many would say: who are any of us mere mortals to criticize men or women who have become Senators? These are supposedly successful people in their own right, business people or former Congress persons who have demonstrated to their [...]

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The Health Care Reform Battle and the Neocon Alternatives

November 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · General, Health Care, Politics

On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the members in the House of Representatives of the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party spent an entire day doing their best to obstruct and prevent legislation. But the Affordable Health Care for America Act passed by 220 to 215. It was bi-partisan. One Republican voted with the Democrats. And 39 petty, cowardly [...]

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The Man Who Caused the Recession

September 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Politics

 It wasn’t someone at Bear, Stearns or at Lehman Bros. They were doing what they do, or at least doing what they have been doing since 2000. It wasn’t Alan Greenspan, although he had his share of responsibility. No, and it wasn’t Bush, Cheney or Hank Paulson. Bush and Cheney are responsible for everything, not [...]

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