Category: Politics

The history of humankind over the past 4 millenia has been written by alcohol, edited by fear, and published by delusional dreams. This is a subject that…

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Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee writes: Today, President Obama repeatedly stated that he ‘can’t persuade’ Senate Republicans to end tax cuts for…

Paul Krugman, New York Times, November 12 2010.The Hijacked Commission. How National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is the same old Republican bullshit advocating the…

This is taken from the November 12 2010 version of Huffington Post.  It’s something that should be plastered on every billboard in the country. David Fiderer Author…

Not wanting to sound like Andy Rooney, but: I am sick of being told to “support our troops” or “thank a veteran”. Let me explain.  Americans have…

Or, as Thomas Paine put it in 1793: The Christian Mythologists, after having confined Satan in a pit, were obliged to let him out again…

I see in the Times that Texas is at it again. This time the conservatives there (what is it about that place?) are discussing dropping out of the federal Medicaid program as a means of getting the state out of a $25 billion hole.