Politics in the Zeros

George Orwell has a way of saying in one sentence what others struggle to say in entire books. Here are a few of his quotes about politics. The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. Indeed, the two main currents on the hard left are Marxism and Anarchism (and [...]

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Wes Messamore just updated his comprehensive list of libertarian blogs and websites at The Humble Libertarian. Check it out! I knew Wes a bit from when we both wrote for IVN. He’s a right libertarian and I’m a left populist. Yet we have plenty of agreement on some issues, like fighting for civil liberties, legalizing [...]

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Astonishingly the mock site for Christine Quinn is at quinnfornewyork.org while her real site is quinnfornewyork.com, indicating whoever runs her Internet operations has the brains of a turnip because they didn’t register the .org domain name too. Quinn opposes mandating paid sick days in NYC. Her opponents created a carbon copy of her website, replacing [...]

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Rootstrikers wants to end the corrupting influence of money in politics, hence their somewhat odd name which signifies striking at the root of the problem. They are planning a conference on Sat April 20 in San Francisco. Speakers include Rootstrikes founder Lawrence Lessig, David Cobb of the Green Party, Ann Ravel of Chair of the [...]

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Further proof that faux progressive sites like Daily Kos are just Democratic Party shills and relentlessly opposed to any real criticism of the party or of Obama. Thus, they aren’t progressive or even liberal at all, by rather just party hacks who like and support the existing power arrangements with the proviso that they want [...]

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The NYT has a lengthy article on the gaping digital divide between Republican and Democratic campaigning and fund-raising in the 2012 presidential election. This really says it all: Romney’s senior strategist, Stuart Stevens, may well be remembered by historians, as one House Republican senior staff member put it to me, “as the last guy to [...]

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pics on Sodahead Writers at The Nation magazine are calling for progressives to occupy the Democratic Party and take back control of it from the evil-bellied ones who control it now. Honestly, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the futility of their attempt. How they plan to do this is unexplained. And [...]

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This is crazy. American olive oil producers are being forced to compete against subsidized olive oil from Morocco , with the subsidies coming from our very own State Department, who said the subsidies wouldn’t hurt US agriculture. Central Valley farmers in California deeply disagree and want a level playing field. American olive oil producers are meeting [...]

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With nearly 12,000 votes (a whopping 27% of the vote), the campaign of Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant in Washington’s 43rd legislative district is a bright beacon of hope on the otherwise bleak horizon of the 2012 election for the American left, although you wouldn’t know it by reading the party-line and left-liberal news outlets. Both [...]

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The Democratic Party used to have major support in large parts of the West where prairie populism once flourished, but are quickly becoming endangered. It’s the same old same old. The Democrats have mostly turned away from their traditional base, becoming mostly urban, viewing those who live in the country as unimportant and basically hicks. Say what you will [...]

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