Good Life for All I wrote an article for Politisite.com called “A Good Life For All.” (See link: http://politisite.com/2011/10/23/a-good-life-for-all/ ) In it, I wanted to establish that individuals in...
I am wearing out the metaphor, but it holds. We the People bought a pig in a poke with the midterm elections. We had lousy choices and did the best we could and still have a lousy government. Decisions are driven...
Ezra Klein offers a Wonkbook Rorschach test today on the deficit. “How do you feel,” he poses? First off, looking at the deficit is looking at the symptom of a problem. The problem is 1) we spent too much and...
First American voters wanted government to help them. Two years go by and they are “conservative,” meaning they don’t want so much government help. It wasn’t possible for government to do anything in that...
Washington Post’s Ezra Klein writes: 1. Republican control the House 2. Democrats control the Senate 3. Democrats run the Executive Branch 4. Government is in paralysis 5. American citizens need a corrected...
http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/70-70/3768-tea-party-vow-to-deter-voter-fraud-is-called-scare-tactic In 2006, conservative activists repeatedly claimed that the problem of people casting fraudulent votes was so widespread that it was corrupting the...
Back in high school I ran for vice-president. It was a grand affair - posters, buttons, giveaways, debates, hallway commercials, polling-station goons, the whole shebang. Leaving aside the rather...
The NAACP, this week, went on national media denouncing members of the Tea Party as racist. The NAACP would not allow news groups to record their resolution vote making their statement official. The NAACP would only...
For a long time, the Republicans Party and its constituents have gotten away with claiming that they are America and that the rest of America is not. This claim - along with the related claim by many among Republicans that America owes everything to Republicans -...
Thursday's presidential election in Afghanistan is likely to yield a low voter turnout, as Taliban has threatened to cut off the fingers, noses and ears of anyone who dares to enter a polling station. The Taliban are particularly strong in the Pashtun-areas of Afghanistan,...
Iraqi Kurds voted in the semiautonomous Kurdistan region today and hundreds lined up for hours before polling places opened to cast their ballot for the local presidential and parliamentary elections. They are...
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During her campaign for the vice presidency last year, Sarah Palin often referred to "real Americans." This morning MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski parroted the Alaskan Governor's line and caught hell from, well, the...
Rush Limbaugh further alienated Hispanic voters (from the GOP) by comparing Sonia Sotomayor, who is likely to be confirmed as the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, to a housekeeper."MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and...
The Control, Regulate and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 is being pushed by pot activists who sense a positive shift in public sentiment toward the federally banned substance. A recent Field Poll found that 56 percent of California voters supported legalizing marijuana for...
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