The Koch and Bush families helped the Nazis

Coverups concerning former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel

Chapter 2 of Bev Harris’s book Black Box Voting tells the story of former Nebraska Governor Chuck Hagel. Hagel won a surprise landslide election against a Democrat who had been leading in the polls. What’s suspicious is that the votes were counted by machines produced by Hagel’s former company, American Information Systems (later renamed ES&S). […]

Hey Romney, here's why

They wasted trillions of dollars in fraudulent, disastrous wars. They recklessly deregulated banking and securities. They corrupted and mismanaged government.  They gave away almost trillions dollars in tax breaks and loopholes for the rich.  They made incentives for corporations to ship jobs overseas.   They defunded education, making it harder for people to get the skills […]

Is conservatism curable?

In a brilliant article, Steven Jonas, Professor of Preventive Medicine at the School of Medicine, Stony Brook University (NY) Is Homophobia Curable?.  Don’t misread that. He’s asking is homoPHOBIA curable. This suggests another question: is conservatism curable?  For conservativism is clearly a moral disease of character, leading people to think it’s OK to: enrich the […]