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Whose side is the Republican Party on?

Shoq — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:57:08 +0000

So whose side is the Republican Party on? Hint: It's not yours.

New ad to be run in heavy rotation. Hat tip Daily Kos:Barbara Morrill

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Politics of The Libertarian Mob

Shoq — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:20:49 +0000

The Tea Party Jacobins — Mark Lilla, NY Times Book Review

A new strain of populism is metastasizing before our eyes, nourished by the same libertarian impulses that have unsettled American society for half a century now. Anarchistic like the Sixties, selfish like the Eighties, contradicting neither, it is estranged, aimless, and as juvenile as
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Fox is the Lupus Of News ~ Jon Stewart Takes Down Bernie Goldberg

Shoq — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:03:53 +0000

"Bernie Goldberg Fires Back"

The Daily Show 4/20/2010 — Length: 11:54

Jon "apologizes" for criticizing Bernie Goldberg and Fox News, but it's only because they're a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization. Do NOT shut this off half way thru. The real punchline comes after the lengthy setup.

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Dave Weigel on C-Span; Discussing What I’m Calling “Trio-Conservatism

Shoq — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:23:44 +0000

This is a wonderful interview, and like most of the Washington Journal good stuff, it was buried in the early morning segment when only we hard core @cspanWJ watchers even saw it.

You really need to spend some time with this segment. He covers a lot of ground, and he knows his subject(s) really well. He's

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Right Wing Circulating Photos Of Left’s Hatred Aimed At Bush

Shoq — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:00:04 +0000

Typically, whenever some new event prompts a collective cry of disgust or outrage, the right wing noise machine leaps into action with some demonstration of false or exaggerated equivalency. In minutes, freedom rings with the sounds of "both sides do it." Whatever the meme, be it racist, violent, anti-semitic, or unpatriotic, the right uses an

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About Comcast & The New “RightNetwork”

Shoq — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:15:13 +0000

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This issue has been mostly concluded for dozens of news organizations and Keith Olbermann. So who am I to wonder why no one is now interested in this "Ed Snider" person who makes big investments in right wing networks, allowing them to borrow his parent company (Comcast)'s name for their
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So How Nutty Is The Tenther Movement? Here’s Their Wish List

Shoq — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:38:40 +0000

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The list below is the entire contents of a section added to Wikipedia, snuck into the Federal Funding section. As you probably know, any person or group that

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Some Myths About American Taxes

Shoq — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:26:13 +0000

This is a slug for a new primer I've been meaning to write for months. The first article is just a way to get me motivated.

5 Myths about your taxes (Washington Post)

2. Americans are overtaxed.

In 2007, federal, state and local taxes claimed about $3.8 trillion, or 27 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. That's
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We Stand on the Cusp of one of Humanity’s Most Dangerous Moments

Shoq — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:03:23 +0000

Chris Hedges is one of our most important writers because he's not afraid to see that bad people produce bad outcomes, and good people wanting good outcomes have virtually no guarantee of winning in the long run of history. They're just fond of thinking that they might.

There are about 100 excerpts I could post here

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A Broken American Political Model Aiding China?

Shoq — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:24:57 +0000

"We can have democracy, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." Justice Louis Brandeis

Without actually coming out and saying it, In "A flawed American political model aids China," Harold Meyerson suggests that we may soon be admitting that our current dysfunctionalism may

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