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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...
Labor Day, 2011! Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Thanks for the tunes and the soul, Joe Zawinul! I know there have been a lot of covers of this tune, but I like the Cannonball Adderly version with Joe at the keyboard. Knocks...
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.
Voting fraud and the Rolling Stone article "The GOP War on Voting"
In a recent Rolling Stone article, The GOP War on Voting, author Ari Berman writes, “In a campaign supported by the Koch brothers, Republicans are working to prevent millions of Democrats from voting next year.”  While...
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...
Ask the Right Question – on jobs and the tax code
The Young Turks have an entertaining video up from a town hall meeting with Representative Hultgren. It’s short and tells the story. The woman asks the right question about the Bush tax cuts, prosperity...
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.
New Report Series on key public safeguards: "Who can vote?" – "Who did vote?"
I’ve been absent from the public eye for nearly four months, involved one of the most comprehensive examinations of voting information since 2005. I analyzed a sequential set of 80 voter history lists, 1,000...
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...