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    Racism and Neoconservatism

    April 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Media, Politics

    What Must Be Said…
    Since the late 1960s, Americans have held the belief–which we now know has been a false belief–that we had gone past a society filled with race hatred. We should have known after the shifts of Democrats to Republicans in the Reagan era that it would be a long time before we would [...]

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    The Bible and the Federalist Papers

    April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · 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, [...]

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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 Grim State of the Nation

    February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, Health Care, Politics, energy, jobs

    As we are about to enter the third month of 2010, the nation is in its worst financial and economic condition since, perhaps, 1939. We have large-scale unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness, hunger, lack of living essentials, and many working families with huge credit card debt. The Neoconservative Republicans who control the Republican Party, have [...]

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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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    Lessons for the “Tea Baggers” on the Bush Recession and Republican Aid to the Rich

    December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, International affairs, Politics

    In November of 2008, while Barack Obama was winning an election, George W. Bush was already planning his exit. In addition to the two wars he was leaving us, the Bush Administration was preparing a surprise, a giant drop in the economy. Republicans in Wall Street had engineered speculative financial instruments based on derivatives tied [...]

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    Health Care

    November 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care

    Over the next month…we hope and expect…the Senate will debate health care. That is, they will try to pass the reform of health care and health insurance and a whole new system of health care delivery for Americans. They will debate the so-called Obama plan, the health care plan of the Democratic Party. There is [...]

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    Reality, Fantasy and Leadership

    November 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Politics

    Since the latter part of the last decade of the 20th Century, the once-great United States of America has fallen into a trap. That trap is that we can continue to be great without paying the price for greatness.
    Everyone knows the price but no one is willing to pay it. The price is a higher [...]

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    The Health Care Reform Battle and the Neocon Alternatives

    November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · 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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    Mobs, Revolutions, Moral Majorities and Totalitarian Governments

    October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics

    There is a lot to be said for civic activism. The Civil Rights movement, addressing a leftover 19th Century attitude towards African-Americans called segregation, was a wonderful example of the dedication of a huge number of individuals who banded together to do the right thing.
    It is always the right thing that seems to succeed [...]

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    Join In an Economic Revolution

    October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics

    Rather than complaining about our lives, our incomes, our ability to maintain some kind of minimal lifestyle, it may be time to do what every good militant has done since before Lenin or George Washington….join up. We need to bite the bullet and become more active in some kind of populist group. Some may participate [...]

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