"I have a gun and I'm NOT afraid to use it."
The attitude of conservatives nowadays is: “I have a gun and I’m not afraid to use it.”  They have lots of power and they’re willing, in fact, eager to destroy much of what we...
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Right wing propaganda books
While shopping in Issaquah today, I stopped at Barnes & Nobel to look for the book “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power” by Jeff Sharlet. Â Â As I...
The real story behind the Boston Tea Party
Thom Hartmann exposes the real story behind the Tea Party: it was an anti-corporate movement motivated by tax breaks for the East India Company.
Medicare for none?
Many activists on the Left want Medicare for all. But the way things are going, it seems we’re more likely to get Medicare for none.  Many conservatives believe that last year’s health care reform...
Poor Uncle Sam! They drowned him in the bathtub.
They drowned Uncle Sam in the bathtub Here’s how they did it: Twelve-step GOP program.
Quickie: Fanning the flames of racial hatred for profit
$42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel the Rise of Islamophobia in America This is not to say there aren’t legitimate problems with Islam or with immigration, but some people have an ideological or...
The Injustice of Justice Thomas
How Joe Biden aided Clarence Thomas The New Yorker has an article on Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni. The article describes how the Court has moved to adopt many of his hard...
Quickie: Reichert wimps out
On Friday evening Republican Congressman Dave Reichert was supposed to attend a fundraiser in Bellevue, but he canceled — probably because of the protests that MoveOn had planned for the event.