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McCain fights to unite Repubicans—and lose the election
2008-02-09 00:40:00 Headlines like these tell you all you need to know about the strategically hopeless situation that John McCain faces:"Bush Rallies Republican Based Around McCain" "McCain Fights to Unite the Republican Party"To McCain, an endorsement from Bush will play about as well with reality-based America as a can of Raid at a spider convention. Yet without the endorsement of Bush, who is still inexplicably popular among die-hard Republicans, McCain won't be able to convince the base that he's their man. Yet every fiery proclamation he makes to rally wingnuts—such as "McCain challenges Democrats on Iraq"—only turns him into more of a Bush clone in the eyes of clear-thinking people. In short, a move to the right will lose the middle, and a move to the middle will lose the right. It's a quagmire (something Republicans know a lot about). I don't dislike McCain. Unlike the current White House occupant, he seems like a man of principles (as much as a politi... More About: Election
Wal-MartCare?coming to a Halliburton concentration camp near you!
2008-02-08 00:00:00 Who needs HillaryCare when Wal-MartCare is just around the corner? Wal-Mart said it expects to have 400 "Clinic at Wal-Mart" outlets open by 2010, calling the move "further proof of Wal-Mart's commitment to providing affordable, accessible solutions to America's healthcare... More About: Halliburton , Camp , Concentration
Bipartisanship brings us the Fascist Police State Act of 2007!
2008-02-07 00:00:00 If you thought the PATRIOT Acts was bad, H.R. 1955 makes it look like "My Pet Goat" in comparison. H.R. 1955?introduced into the House by Democratic Representative Jane Harman (leave her nasty feedback here)?is titled "Violent Radicalization and Home Terrorism... More About: Police , Police State , State
Forget about a Hillary-Obama or Obama-Hillary ticket
2008-02-07 00:00:00 It can't happen, so just forget about it. A lot of Democrats are swooning at the idea of a Hillary -Obama or?depending on who wins the nomination?an Obama-Hillary ticket. But I say it will not happen. Period. I mean, think about... More About: Ticket
The hidden corporate bailout in the economic stimulus package
2008-02-06 00:00:00 Who says bipartisanship is a good thing? Whenever Democrats and Republicans come together, it's usually a sign that a lot of Americans are going to get screwed (remember NAFTA?), and the bipartisan "economic stimulus" plan that's in the works in... More About: Corporate , Economic , Hidden , Package , Bailout
Get ready to fight the right-wing whitewashing of Bush's crimes
2008-02-04 20:20:00 One of the laws of propaganda is that the more thieving, murderous, or disastrously incompetent a group is, the more that group needs loud, cheery, flag-waving propaganda to counter reality with fictional stories of glorious achievements that never happened. This propaganda is even more effective after the fact, as events recede into the past and memories begin to fade. No one is more in need of an all-out propaganda campaign to obfuscate his true legacy than George W. Bush. Set up to fight the coming propaganda blitz and keep Bush's thievery and ineptitude in the public memory is the Bush Legacy Project. More About: Fight , Right Wing , Wing , Crimes , Ready
Cruelty at a corporate slaughterhouse
2008-02-03 00:00:00 The Humane Society sent one of its own to secretly investigate conditions at a California slaughterhouse that "is one of the leading suppliers of the national school lunch program." What they found was reprehensible cruelty towards the cows as well... More About: Corporate , Cruelty , Slaughter
Why Ann Coulter hates McCain
2008-02-03 00:00:00 Fascist Obnoxious Xenophobe News reports that Ann Coulter and Rush "The Boil on My Ass Got Me out of Vietnam" Limbaugh don't like John McCain. What is this, a plot to get clear-thinking people to like McCain? Actually, when you...
Steve Forbes bashes Bush. Kind of
2008-02-02 00:00:00 Now even Steve Forbes hates America: The dumbest, most destructive economic policy of the Bush Administration has been its weak-dollar position--letting the dollar slide in value against the euro, the yen, the pound and gold. But Forbes really lets Bush...
Cloned beef is perfectly safe. Trust us?we?re agribusiness, and we?re here
2008-02-02 00:00:00 If you hadn?t heard of the USDA?s National Animal Information System, you?d think a person was crazy to tell you that the government is cooking up a scheme to require every farm in the country to tag every single chicken,... More About: Beef , Trust , Cloned , Safe , Agribusiness
Bush criticizing earmarks is like Michael Vick calling Cesar Millan an anim
2008-02-02 00:00:00 Right to the very end, Bush plays the Rovian game of criticizing the Democratic Party at every opportunity. In his last?hell yeah!?State of the Union address, Bush took more than a few hypocritical parting shots at Democrats, on everything from... More About: Michael , Michael Vick , Calling , Earmarks
Let the rewriting of the history begin!
2008-02-02 00:00:00 Ya see, people, even though Saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction and no ties to Al Qaeda or any other terrorists, the invasion of Iraq was all Saddam's fault. After all, he kept pretending that he had WMD because... More About: History , Rewriting
Giuliani learns not to take the Lord's name in vain
2008-02-02 00:00:00 Talk about irony. It turns out that the Republican nominee who name-dropped Ronald Reagan is one of the biggest losers: [T]he Republican candidate who invoked Reagan the most is the longtime front-runner who was among the least successful candidates this... More About: Giuliani , Vain
Pooring of America shown in demographics
2008-02-02 00:00:00 America's middle population is becoming more and more concentrated in the country's urban centers. America as a whole is growing briskly. Between 2000 and 2006 its population swelled by 6.4%, according to the Census Bureau. Yet the expansion has passed... More About: America , Demographics
The real agenda of the pro-voucher, homeschooling crowd
2008-01-28 00:00:00 A previous posting about voucher schemes as part of the right wing's larger War on Public Education solicited this highly enlightening comment from Daniel Newby: I promoted tax credits, and even vouchers, for many years, until I realized the damage... More About: Homeschooling , Agenda , Real , Crowd
A voter ID compromise
2008-01-26 00:00:00 The Republicans keep insisting on laws requiring voters to present a photo ID at the polls?even though no one has ever shown that "voter fraud" is a widespread problem (probably because it's a completely made-up issue disguising a brazen Republican...
Republicans lead in fictional-character endorsements
2008-01-26 00:00:00 First, Huckabee won the endorsement of Walker Texas Ranger. Now Rambo has endorsed [warning: GOP propaganda] John McCain. Of course a real surprising endorsement was Happy Gilmore endorsing Giuliani. Now I don't feel so bad about popping out "Click" before... More About: Republicans , Character , Lead
Teenage daughters of ill British mom thrown in prisonlike NY orphanage
2008-01-26 00:00:00 Yet another story from the "Post-9/11 mindless fascist police-state tactics that do absolutely nothing to stop the next terrorist attack" department: A mother whose two teenage daughters were placed in an orphanage when she fell ill during a post-Christmas shopping... More About: British , Teenage , Daughters , Orphanage
Why conservatives hate the Clintons
2008-01-25 00:00:00 Says the Wall Street Journal about Obama's testy reaction to being double-teamed by the Clintons: [Obama] . . . seems to be awakening slowly to what everyone else already knows about the Clintons, which is that they will say and... More About: Hate , Conservatives , Linton
935 reasons Bush is a traitor?and the Dems are pussies
2008-01-25 00:00:00 It's about time someone did an objective, quantitative analysis of the lies Bush told in the runup to the invasion of Iraq. The Center for Public Integrity breaks in down in a study called "The War Card: Orchestrated Deception on... More About: Reasons , Traitor
Talk about American slavery? In an election year?!?
2008-01-23 17:42:00 Columbia University history professor Eric Foner reminds us of a "significant milestone" in American history that has gone "strangely unnoticed": the 200th anniversary of January 1, 1808, when the importation of slaves into the United States was prohibited. Mr. Foner points out some inconvenient truths that could explain the quiet: This earliest date for banning the import of slaves was actually written into the Constitution as one of the compromises achieved in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The prohibition didn't stop the southern states from illegally importing slaves from South America. The actual official end of slavery itself didn't come until an amazing 60 years later. But the real 800-pound gorilla in the room that Mr. Foner fails to mention is the upcoming election: In a presidential election year, not even the Democratic Party wants to bring up the subject of slavery in America. After all, how are the Dems supposed to woo Southern vot... More About: Slavery , Talk , Election , Year
Iraq veterans to stage massive anti-war rally in D.C.
2008-01-23 00:00:00 Spread the word?the Iraq Veterans Against the War are planning a massive rally of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in Washington, D.C. from March 13?16 of this year: In what will be history's largest gathering of U.S. veterans who served in... More About: Rally , Anti-War , Anti
China?communist nation, capitalist paradise
2008-01-22 00:00:00 The views of economic historian Qin Hui are not exactly popular with the Chinese government. He states that China 's rampant state-dominated, welfare-lite capitalism could so undercut competitors that it could threaten the social democratic traditions that underpin the West -... More About: Nation , Paradise , Communist
When a U.S. president bombed U.S. citizens
2008-01-21 00:00:00 The only time the U.S. government ever dropped bombs on American citizens was in 1921, by Republican President Warren Harding, to stop a movement to unionize coal mines at Blair Mountain. Nowadays America's ruling elite are much more sophisticated in...
The Democratic primary is too important to leave to Democratic caucusgoers
2008-01-21 00:00:00 Just who the hell are these Democrats who are picking Hillary? Are these the same aging-hippy party-establishment lunkheads who picked Kerry in 2004 instead of, say, someone who knows how to campaign? Now you're going for Hillary? You know, you... More About: Democratic , Leave , Primary
Police use topless woman to ensnare just about any guy who passes by
2008-01-21 00:00:00 Cops on the job are sometimes just like anyone else?they like to take the easy way out. For instance, why go after really scary criminals such as serial rapists or roaming gangs of armed thugs when you can just plant... More About: Police , Woman
The U.S. joins an elite club
2008-01-21 00:00:00 Question: What does the United States have in common with nations like Israel, China, Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan? Answer: They're all on the Canadian foreign ministry's torture watch list. Torture? What torture? Americans do not torture. Therefore, by definition, this... More About: Club , Elite
Is it torture now, motherf*cker?
2008-01-21 00:00:00 Here's how you can get any conservative to admit that waterboarding is torture: waterboard him until he admits it. Waterboarding?and I'm talking about real waterboarding as actually practiced, not that fake waterboarding "demonstrated" on Fox News?will apparently break anyone. In... More About: Torture
Clinton gives reporter the third degree
2008-01-21 00:00:00 Is it just me, or did Bill Clinton come across as a shrewd, fast-talking lawyer trying to put words in people's mouths and ignoring the core argument at hand? More About: Reporter , Degree , Linton
Enough pussyfooting, already?it's capitalists who destroy democracy
More articles from this author:2008-01-21 00:00:00 I am 100% convinced that modern American capitalism (or, more accurately, corporatism) is eroding our democracy, but I wasn't very impressed with Benjamin J. Barber's insight into how capitalism is having this effect (from his interview with Bill Moyers): [C]apitalism... More About: Democracy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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