Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
Lying for Jesus
Richard Dawkins lets another mouth-breathing meat-head have it.
What Every American Should Know About the Middle East
What Every American Should Know About the Middle East
Settling In To The South
Since December of last year, we have been living in the Southwest corner of Georgia, a place where most of my family is either from or currently lives. I was born an hour East of here, in Tifton a place most notable for the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
Originally, our plan was to breeze into town, [...]
Moving Towards Nordicization
The US Federal Reserve is examining the Nordic bank nationalisations of the 1990s as a possible interim solution to the US financial crisis.
Precarity In America
While I was living in Europe I found myself involved in quite a few pub discussions about Precarity and its adjunct flexploitation. One thing that popped up in all of those conversations was the question of why there is no discussion of precarity in the United States.
I said then, and still believe that there is [...]
The Four Pillars of Libertarianism
As Wendy McElroy, Fox News’ resident Libertarian pundit aptly summarized in a column for the Independent Institute, American political Libertarianism is based on Murray Rothbard’s synthesis of four schools of thought, the radical anti-statism of the individualist anarchists and wed it with Austrian economics, the foreign policy of the Old Right (isolationism) and the [...]
The Dumbing Of America
Call Me a Snob, but Really, We’re a Nation of Dunces
Americana
The Journal of American Popular Culture 1900 to Present
Seven Steps To Revolution
The seven steps to revolution. Are we there yet?
InfraGard
It worked so well for the military, the FBI thought they’d have a go at privatizing security.
The Cruelest Cuts
From my old home state of North Carolina comes a six-part expose on the poultry industry, documenting the lives of North Carolina’s 28,000 poultry workers. Editor Rick Thames kicks off the series with a searing editorial that compares these workers, mostly illegal immigrants with few rights, to the South’s most notorious historical underclass. But it [...]
Rent-A-Cop Murder
A Kansas City Rent-a-Cop shot and killed someone today over shoplifted groceries.
Exercising Their Options
Mortgage-bond investors, seemingly unwittingly, sold homebuyers a put option, without properly pricing it, and now homeowners are exercising that option. Moreover, prime borrowers in many markets face the same incentives. Americans have long been able to cut their losses from bad investments and start over. It stands to reason that when the market made houses [...]
We Must All Do Our Part To Preserve This Climate Of Fear
We Must All Do Our Part To Preserve This Climate Of Fear
On (Maybe Not) Picking A Candidate
Okay, so now that the field has narrowed everywhere, I suppose I can mention what candidate I plan on supporting for President in November (assuming they get the nomination).
Starting with a complete list of candidates (Clinton, Edwards, Giuliani, Gravel, Huckabee, McCain, Obama, Paul, Romney) I began to look at issue positions, and narrowing the list [...]
The Christian Right Family
The Myth and the Reality of the Christian Right Family.
How To Build A Better America
Some ideas for a better America: open the borders, get a national education curriculum, get a new tax policy.
Questions Reporters Should Ask
Columbia Journalism Review has a few questions for Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
3 American Myths
Is America going to become Balkanized along racial lines, taken over by religious fundamentalists or bankrupted by`retiring baby boomers? Not so, says Michael Lind.
Reasons for Obama
Is Obama the right man for the job? Richard Chappell thinks so
The Politics of the Uterus
Unless the national leadership of the National Organization for Women comes out and takes a stand against the rampant stupidity of the NY chapter, even the remaining few friends they have in the world will write them off as completely loons (no offense to any aquatic birds reading this).
It seems that the NY chapter of [...]
50 Most Loathsome
The 50 most loathsome people in America for 2007 — you’re in there too!
The American Dream Is Alive and Well … in Finland!
The American Dream Is Alive and Well … in Finland!
Dumber Than Dirt
America’s kids - dumber than dirt.
Gated Communities Go Bust
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there’s no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
Dear America
Dear America,
I miss you. You are the land of my birth, the place I spent my formative years, and I have many fond memories of you. Even though I now live across an ocean, in a very different sort of place, I long for you, America. I long for what I have left behind.
For me, [...]
Corpoprate Tax Rates
If you’ve ever wondered why your taxes go up and there’s never enough money for roads and schools, you should look no further than you local Fortune 500 company. If they pay <5% and I pay 25%, who does the government work for?
Wind power or Hot Air?
Taxpayers in United States will pay $137.6 billion for the cost of the Iraq War in FY 2007. For the same amount of money, 142,451,458 Homes could have been provided with Renewable Electricity, assuming 8 cents per kWh for wind energy. As of the 2000 census, there were 119,044,000 houses (housing [...]
Idiotic legal arguments
Hang around the fringes (like a Ron Paul rally) long enough, and someone will make an idiotic legal argument. Fortunately there is A Casebook for Dealing with Extremist Legal Arguments
Flag Pin Etiquette
Planning on going outside (maybe to shop at Wal-Mart) and nervous you might be mistaken for a terrorist? Then learn the proper way to wear your American flag pin.
Bush
US Commander In Chief tells Musharraf ‘You can’t be the president and the head of the military at the same time.’
Dumbening
Measuring the Dumbening of America for 20 Years
Thursday Thirteen #37 - (American) Political Parties Explained
With the coming presidential elections on everyones mind in the US, I thought I would take a look at the political landscape and see what each of the parties (large and small alike) were actually about. The result of that investigation was a dazzling array of platform statements and programs, all wrapped up in hyperbolic [...]
Colbert / Huckabee ?
Finally some decent political news from South Carolina. He’s got my vote as the only candidate who realizes how ridiculous he is.
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
Happy Quagmire
Five years ago today the House passed J. H. Res. 114, which authorized the President (presumably in perpetuity) to use any force “necessary” against the “continuing” threat to the nation posed by Iraq…just in case Iraq did in fact pose a threat. The vote was 296-133. On Oct. 11, 2002 the [...]
Ron Paul Loves Budget Pork
I would love to see self-styled “libertarian” super-patriot Ron Paul explain which article of the Constitution authorizes appropriating public money for:
antibiotic testing of seafood in his hometown.
“personalized medicine in asthma” for the “disadvantaged” of his hometown.
shore protection measures for his home county.
cancer center expansion at his county hospital.
a Cedar bayou created in his home county.
the [...]
US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
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