Red Dawn, and the absurd premise of who invades the U.S.

When I was a kid I went to see the 1984 movie, Red Dawn at a drive-in. I was still naive enough at the time to believe that the Soviets could invade the U.S., as the film shows. Heck, the Soviets might not even have had a navy that could have invaded Canada. But, at least...

Right wing attacks one of its own

http://open.salon.com/blog/ted_frier/2012/07/06/right_wing_attacks_one_of_its_own_--_again Jonathan Krohn, the precocious 13 year-old who wowed attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference four years ago, is older, wiser and feeling the heat from his one-time...

The march of theocracy is never ending in our secular republic

A conservative on the radio I was listening to, deplored "god" being kicked out of the public schools. She then, within 10 seconds stated that schools should focus on academic things, instead of things such as sexual education. Hmmm, she seemed not to notice that both...

The Ideology of Spree Shooters

It is not, nor it should be, surprising that the main spree shooters in recent times were all right-wingers. From Timothy McVeigh to Cam Cho to that idiot in Norway, the spree shooters were all right-wing ideologues who wanted to take it out on people who weren't quite what...

'Christian' 'Declaration of American Values' Rejects Luke 12:48

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.The Washington Post reports that the Christian Right is trying to reframe and reorganize itself. A new coalition has come up with a new set of values that they call their "Declaration of American Values." (Even though these people...

CIA-Trained Blogger Disbursing Money to "Progressives"

Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos) blog. "Overseas Private Investment Council Press Release (Full Text)"Some of us have wondered what Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) learned at the CIA during his two year "training" period there. SourceWatch.Org Covers...