The Miss Alternate Universe Pageant
An election-year flight from reason and reality. Positions of authority have a way of inflating people's sense of their own power. For example, Donald Rumsfeld might have been a great defense secretary...
View ArticleActually Bernie, Democracy Needn't Be "Messy." (Updated, with clarification...
In an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker, Bernie Sanders attempted to clarify:“The media often takes words out of context. The context of that is democracy is messy, that people will have a vigorous...
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John Kerry Rips Donald Trump's 'Unbelievable Contemptuous Ignorance' On...
The Republican Party long ago committed itself to a position on climate change that is at odds with reality. The question is settled with 97 percent of the scientists who study the subject agreeing...
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Chickenhawk Republican Climate Deniers Just Killed Critical Military Funding
The Republican Party has distinguished itself for its shameless, knee-jerk opposition to anything with even a faint fragrance of liberalism. Their robotic rejection of any policy proposed by President...
View ArticleDonald Rumsfeld endorses Hillary!
Donald Rumsfeld endorsed Hillary Clinton earlier today, saying “I believe Secretary Clinton is the steady hand we need in the various wars we are fighting”. This was greeted by the DNC as yet another...
View Article36 Years Down the Republican Rabbit Hole
In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll tells the story of Alice, a more-or-less average curious, rational child, who, on a dreamy summer day, chases a waistcoat-wearing white rabbit down...
View ArticleRepublicans Have Lost the Right to Govern
The election is tomorrow and I believe it will be a historical landslide as we semd Hillary Clinton to the White House. I believe the Democratic Party will do a sweep and we will have, at the very...
View ArticleDefense Secretary Defies Trump, Says Climate Change Is a Real Threat to...
The Republican Party has long been a fierce opponent of any efforts to mitigate climate change. Their opposition stands in stark contrast to the near unanimous consensus in the scientific community....
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Republicons: Sorcerers of Mass Destruction - POLITIFORMERS I
POLITIFORMERS: More than meets the pie! [ Part I - II - III - IV - V - VI ]Little did you know, but many of our most prominent politicians are actually super-powerful robots, hiding in our midst. This...
View Article46 Republicans Join Democrats to Slap Trump in the Face With Huge Climate...
Donald Trump is unarguably the most hostile president to the environment this country has ever seen. He is an unabashed science denier who believes that climate change is a hoax invented by China. He...
View ArticleTrump's Dangerous National Security Policy Contradicts His Own Defense Sec on...
In a speech intended to lay out his national security agenda, Donald Trump appeared lethargic and detached. His TelePrompter reading was stunted and his voice was slurred. At one point he said that...
View ArticleShameful Survival Strategy: Short-Sightedness Surging Self-destruction
Severe self-serving sins projected on citizenry seeking missing refugees who sought only solace, by soliciting toElement removedslip away from State sponsored slaughter – sharply switched into shipped...
View Articleat least Manafort got 47 months. Democrats let the bankers go free, gave them...
what happened to putting the Bush regime on trial for war crimes?what happened to putting the bankers who foreclosed on our homes in jail?let’s put BETTER and MORE [of the BETTER] democrats into...
View ArticleStoking Fear: We Must Remember How the Iraq War Was Sold
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of...
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In the progressive blogosphere, a Sanders nomination may feel like a very...
NetrootsWhat are the roots of the progressive blogosphere? The medium you’re reading now, in its early years, was of course the place for progressive writers to speak out against George W. Bush’s war...
View ArticleHeavy medal
Imagine you’re in a coffee shop when a man you don’t know sits down uninvited next to you. Scribbling on a napkin and spouting something about “tax cuts pay for themselves,” the man then confidently...
View ArticleIt's time for some honesty about the true cause of 9/11
September 11 2019 is the 18th anniversary of 9/11/2001, a day made forever infamous by the killing of 2,996 innocent Americans and other nationalities at the World Trade Center in New York and at the...
View ArticleDick "@$#^&%" Cheney is Saving Us from a Martial Law Coup D'état??? Now...
Ex-VP (and more importantly ex-DefSec) Dick Cheney is apparently the one who originated a joint-letter of “all living former Defense Secretaries” to stress the importance of a peaceful transition of...
View ArticleBreaking: Donald Rumsfeld is dead...
I have plenty to say about how much enmity I bear for this man and his accomplices, but hear’s the latest news from The Guardian.
View ArticleDonald Rumsfeld, Master of the Grand Delusion & Major Architect of Bush's...
In 2005, I wrote a piece about Donald Rumsfeld titled “Rumsfeld's Bloody Paths of Glory,” subtitled “Defense Secretary's shameful journey to Iraq is followed by Pentagon discussions of forming El...
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