The last race war – 2012 is the last gasp of Whites-Only Republicanism
History will write that Republican Harry Dent invented the modern Whites-Only Party in the late 1960s with something called the Southern Strategy. Republican Barry Goldwater was the first beneficiary....
View ArticleUnion Thugs
I thought an appropriate subject for Labor Day would be to talk about unions, since it was their idea in the first place. This Labor Day offers us a chance to look at between unions and The Union,...
View ArticleVanity Fair writer's BRUTAL takedown of the GOP: "They must be stopped"
I've mentioned before that one of my favorite people on twitter is Kurt Eichenwald, a writer at Vanity Fair. He's acerbic, aggressive and kind of fun. (if you want to follow him, and I'd highly...
View ArticleI got mine… You “people” can fight over the scraps
The Republican National Convention is finally over. The majority Democratic population of the Tampa Bay area can finally exhale a collective sigh of relief. The roads will be open again, the trash...
View ArticleOur "greatest generation" vs What could have been our Greatest.
Ronald Reagan was once criticized for not being in touch with the current generation. He was confronted with the fact that the people today have "television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy,...
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Springsteen, Pink Floyd, and Michael Jackson had more to do with tearing down...
. Sure, Reagan got more press and all of the credit, but a concert in West Berlin with Genesis, David Bowie, and Eurythmics started the wrecking ball rolling during the summer of 1987. According to...
View ArticleThe stupidest RW thing ever to make the rounds on the internet...
Or close to it. I know there is a lot of competition for that honor. This thing manages to be wrong on so many levels in just a few short sentences. Hard to know whether to use the Beirut withdrawal,...
View ArticleNot Paying Taxes is a Goper Pillar
Maybe we need to step back and actually look at the big picture here while the freepers and redstate mouth breathers exhalt what a GOD Willard Romney is for speaking "truth to power" about the 47%ers....
View ArticlePeggy Noonan’s solution for Romney: Bring in the Wolf.
With the end of the US Presidential election fast approaching, Peggy Noonan, former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, offered some pretty blunt advice to Mitt Romney’s campaign in her Wall Street...
View ArticleA Measured Response to Andrew Sullivan.
Today, Andrew Sullivan had a piece in the Daily Beast regarding Obama. It's pretty complementary: "...If Obama wins, to put it bluntly, he will become the Democrats’ Reagan. The narrative writes...
View ArticleWhat Reagan Would Have Done
Would that we had someone like the Saint Ronald of Reagan to deal with today's problems. His solutions to the problems of the 1980s still affect the lives of every American today. Would that more...
View ArticleBLS Numbers: They’ve Been Cooked. Kind of.
Hold on. HOLD ON!! I am not a lurking right-winger. When I saw the speculation by idiots like Jack Welch and others about the recent unemployment numbers being cooked, I laughed. I didn’t even need to...
View ArticleMy Second Set of Republican Clothes
Yesterday my flight to Dallas was cancelled. Today it’s delayed due to rain. So here I sit languishing at La Guardia again. Public air travel is the worst. Reagan should have privatized the whole...
View ArticleBy Any Means Necessary; The Republican Agenda to “Mortally Wound” Our Democracy
11Oct Although poverty’s umbilical cord is unambiguously tied to money, the true essence of poverty is powerlessness. It is no accident that at a time when the poverty rate in this country is the...
View ArticleThe Romney/Ryan Plan – The classic shell game explained (voodoo economics)
The Romney/Ryan Plan – The classic shell game explained (voodoo economics) The Romney/Ryan Plan is the same old trickle down propaganda that hides the real truth. The truth is that expansion of the...
View ArticleThe Right Side of History
Hindsight is 20/20, as they say. So why, in politics, isn't it used a little more often? Or, at all? Looking back, the neocons were wrong about Iraq. That's not in dispute. Is there no lesson in...
View ArticleBREAKING: Ronald Reagan refuses to call embassy attack an "act of terror"
This is unacceptable. On December 12th(1983), our U.S. embassy in Kuwait was attacked by a suicide truck bomber. This blatant act of terror killed 5 people. Yet, the weak willed President Reagan...
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Unemployment by presidential budget
I got the data from the data at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. When did Obama get sworn in? Jan 2009. When did Bush's presidential budget expire? Oct 1, 2009. Bush's monetary policies were...
View Article"Well, there you go again."
Like the line itself, this diary is short and sweet. What the Great Communicator knew is that politics breeds cynicism. Most don't follow details yet expect leaders to fix all of their problems....
View ArticleObama best president for corporate profits since the 19th Century
How's this for socialism run amok? While those on the right accuse President Obama of being terrible for American business, it turns out that Obama has presided over the greatest increase in corporate...
View ArticleBush, Clinton, Carter, Reagan; not Romney
Romney is getting CRUSHED in the state he was governor in, Massachusetts. Crushed. (And beaten soundly in his other "home" state, Michigan). Why is this not talked about more? Just the recent...
View ArticleThe 'Reagan Revolution" - A Legacy We Can ALL Relish.....
Want to see the aftermath of the 'Reagan Revolution" of 1980-1988?Well savor it below - a summary of four major national election metrics and measures, starting with the Election on 1988:
View ArticleThe Death of Reaganomics and The Reagan Legacy
In the last century there have been only 4 US presidents who have won a popular majority twice. They include Presidents FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan and now Obama. The importance of two terms is that...
View ArticleSaint Ronald Reagan: S Sec has nothing to do with the deficit
From his 1984 debates with Walter Mondale:“Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. Social Security is totally funded by the payroll tax levied on employer and employee.”“Social Security has...
View ArticleThanksgivings Dark and Grave
Today you'll see plenty of Thanksgiving theme diaries. This one is mine - and yours, as a place to post your own gratitude messages.Decry willful climate collapse, deadly codependency in the Middle...
View ArticleHistory vs. Rice vs. Rice
The current and ongoing politicizing of the 9/11 attacks on the Benghazi consulate by the political right begs for a study in contrasts to previous incidents that trivializes the tragic aftermath in...
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Remembering El Mozote: Court orders probe into 1981 massacre
The wreckage of Col. Domingo Monterrosa's helicopter outside the Musem of the Revolution in Perquin, El Salvador.Rufina Amaya outside her modest home in Morazan Province, El Salvador in 1998. I don’t...
View ArticleWhy Legalizing Marijuana May Be A Good Idea, But Not A Racial Justice Strategy
Ever since election day, liberal pundits and activists have been buzzing about the success of marijuana decriminalization ballot measures in Washington and Colorado. The general consensus is that these...
View ArticleF#%king Carter! (updated)
Oops, and Reagan too:May 3, 1994 To Members of the U.S. House of Representatives:We are writing to urge your support for a ban on the domestic manufacture of military-style assault weapons. This is a...
View ArticleRonald Reagan: Assault weapons ban "must be passed"
I just sat through nine minutes of a speech by Michael Reagan at a NRA convention in 2009. It was filled with all kinds of applause lines and cleaver quips such as: On March 30, 1981, four people got...
View ArticleUpdated: The cruel tale of Rick Scott's Rescue Puppy.
This is Part LIII of My Stupid State where I document what happens when a state full of Democrats elect a veto-proof, right-wing legislature along with a teabag, CRIMINAL governor to lead us. (Once...
View ArticleFederal Court Orders WI GOP to Give Computer Contents to Opponents
The Wisconsin GOP and the legal team it hired to handle state redistricting was handed a Federal court order yesterday: Turn over the contents of three computers used to ram through redistricting last...
View ArticleOur beloved dictatorship
corruption, nepotism and outright gangsterism has been part of human society since ever. and it will never go away. It is only a question of how pervasive it is. On the minimal scale we get basically...
View ArticleNew Healthcare Taxes: a Poor Rx
An aging population and the Medicare safety net make healthcare costs the biggest single threat to America’s fiscal future. To help pay the bill, the Obama Administration is leaning on the rich: two...
View ArticleWhat Obama Can Do
In an uncharacteristically substantive column a couple of Sundays ago, the NY Times’ s Maureen Dowd lambasted President Obama for a willful failure to work the system. If he had deigned to get down to...
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Long-Term Unemployment: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Poll)
40 years ago the United States had 100 million less people than it does today. Since then, outsourcing has escalated; and now the labor force participation rate is at it lowest since 1979. The Wall...
View ArticleYour Friday Nooner
News from the Plains. All this Red can make you BlueYour Friday Noonerby Barry Friedman (I can't help it. I'm like an alcoholic at an open bar when she writes)"What pains me--no, more than pains me--it...
View ArticleProgressives must stop perverting history with conservatives
The power of well-produced propaganda never ceases to amaze me. Look at any election cycle in the US. The falsehoods spewed about in plain view will be repeated enough times to get the most...
View ArticleSpecial Edition: Your Tuesday Nooner
News from the Plains. All this Red can make you BlueYour Afternoon Noonerby Barry Friedman(Ed. Note. I should really stop doing this. I might get stuck and never be able to write like anyone...
View ArticleUpdating Reagan
President Reagan famously said: 'The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'That overly cute quip became the entire gospel of the...
View ArticleYour Saturday Nooner
News from the Plains: All this RED can make you BLUEYour Saturday Noonerby Barry FriedmanI am officially an addictIs it Noonan or is Not"Let the dogs, the wolves, those liberal attack vermin come at me...
View ArticleWhere Has Civility Gone?
Something has happened to this country. While I know that hate was around long before I was born, it seems in today’s political discourse anyone is liable to say anything and get away with it....
View ArticleYour Saturday Nooner
News from the Plains: All this RED can make you BlueIs it Nooner or Is it Not?by Barry Friedman"In the vast vastness of these unraveling, unkempt, unseemly, unrelated stories about the IRS and Egypt,...
View ArticleAn Economy Working Only for a Few
Those big headlines about the bankruptcy of Detroit were like a punch in the gut to those of us who grew up in working class in the Midwest, and they should sober anyone who cares about working...
View ArticleNoonan ... from DOWNTOWN
News from the Plains: All this RED can make you BLUENoonan ... from Downtownby Barry FriedmanWhen I think of Detroit, I think of a dark, destroyed, desolate, dispirited den of Democrats. When I think...
View ArticleYour Saturday Nooner
News from the Plains: All this RED can make you BLUEIs it Noonan or is it Not?by Barry FriedmanOh, the horrorAnd, too, came a book this week, COLLISION 2012 (but, ah, not a revolution, not seen)... of...
View ArticleIs it Noonan or is it Not?
News from the Plains: All this RED can make you BLUEIs it Noonan or is it Notby Barry FriedmanThe manure piles high.Send in the clowns. Beef Jerky, Pork sandwiches, Cotton candy, my friends?And a...
View ArticlePERVERSION FOR PROFIT
“If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?” Will Rogers * I find it curious that Charlie Humphrey Keating Jr (above) spent his adult life crusading against pornography, which he...
View ArticleYes, it could happen anywhere! But everything ISN'T equally likely everywhere!
I wrote much of this as a comment in the "Black Camerawoman at CNN Speaks Out" diary. But with some of the other diaries that have been published, I think it's worth expanding. Yes, racism is...
View ArticleThe Clown Car of Darkness (UPDATED)
There was a time when American politics didn’t involve one party that was stark raving mad.We are about to watch a week of lunacy unfold in Tampa. Not harmless lunacy like Moon-landing-denial—RIP,...
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