Barack Obama has not continued to fool anyone except the most ideologically straitjacketed, the most truth resistant, and the most willfully uninformed among us. Featuring an Obama bumper sticker on a car in 2010 says as much about the stupidity and rigidity of that car owner today as did a W bumper sticker in 2007. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
Obama: The Top of His Class
February 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
Tags: class war·Nat Hentoff·Obama·Obama bumper sticker·resumes·super-minority ownership class·The Candidate·University of Chicago
The Economy? Go Progressive!
January 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Public Policy
It’s been generally explained to us that the Federal Government is just a brand identity that pretty much outsources all its major functions to corporations. One can see this in Haiti; private security contractors are the first in there and the military second after an almost three day lag behind catastrophic events. This in itself says [...]
Tags: Careers·Obama·Occupations·privatization·security state·social security state
Health Reform Bill: Here’s the Explanation
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
People are getting tense over talk about the Senate Health bill. They are finally clueing in to the reality that it’s going to be mandatory insurance and that they are going to have to pay for it. People are cash strapped and fearful of an expense they cannot manage. People also know insurance companies are [...]
Tags: Democratic Party·Government-Run Health Option·Healthcare·mandatory insurance·Senate health bill·subsidized enrolless
Immigrant Song: All This Disorder Comin’ From South of the Border
December 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Policy
The terms “illegal immigration,” “illegal immigrant,” “undocumented immigrant” “migrant worker,” are coded phrases that when deciphered, have specific meaning. These phrases don’t refer to people currently in America who have come from Iceland or Belgium, Senegal or Sierra Leone, or from Canada or Cuba. No, these coded phrases refer specifically to the 12 to 18 [...]
Tags: illegal immigrant·Illegal immigration·immigration debate·immigration reform·Mexico
