Why Kerry Should Choose Wes Clark
Have any of you tried talking to people who have managed to allow all the disasters of Bush's adventure in Iraq to wash over them, who continue to maintain that Iraq is the major event in the...
View Article"Who you gonna believe...."
Americans love this line: "Who you gonna believe? Me or your lyin' eyes?" Kerry/Edwards need something to synthesize their barrage of arguments--on the state of Iraq, on job creation, on the deficit,...
View Articlean irrationality so vast....
i think we all have our breaking points. for me, it's an argument bush used yesterday finding himself down in the QaaQaa arms dumps. bush said, if john kerry were president then saddam hussein would...
View Articlemy predictions go a bit haywire
i responded late last night to a friend's request for predictions: the true predictor's art is in the electoral votes. so here's the money prediction: kerry by 321 to 217 electoral votes. (go ahead....
View ArticleThe Rope-a-Dope War
Wasn't it a Muslim American who invented the term "rope-a-dope?" Maybe Muhammed Ali brought more Islamic culture to bear in developing the rope-a-dope strategy with which he felled the mighty George...
View Articlea berkeley baby boomer explains obama to his italian friend
The extraordinary fact about Obama is that his campaign is more like a movement than an ordinary American political campaign. It is like the Dean phenomenon of four years ago, but way, way surpassing...
View ArticlePalin: The New Identity Politics
The most important identity-politics politician in America today is Sarah Palin. If you’re wondering why that sounds strange, it’s because identity politics in America is firmly associated with...
View ArticleThe Stakes: Koch & Co. Aim for a Revolution in 2016
The agenda of the Koch faction of the Republican Party..... The 2016 election ambitions of the Koch brothers and what they represent on the Republican right wing, free-market absolutism, are nothing...
View ArticleTrump 2016: Archie Bunker Runs for President diary
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Over the course of the past three-and-a-half decades the Republican far right has resembled the successive generations of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County,...
View ArticleBrexit: A Cousin Of Trumpism? A Distant Cousin Of Fascism?
In Britain and the USA, conservatives believing they could control the extremists to their right have both come a cropper this year. In the US, this comes after decades of far-right Republicans...
View Articleunspooling Trump
if, like me, you are feeling confused and baffled and wondering how in the holy hell we got into this Trump-o-rama, look no further. this amazing and lengthy article explains what led us to this...
View ArticleThe Donald and the Duce
More than any time in over fifty years, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign has provoked a serious discussion of the threat of fascism at the level of presidential politics. Martin O'Malley twice called Trump...
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