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George W. Bush’s Last Disaster – The Republican Party

What happened to the Republican Party? Simple. George W. Bush happened. [...]

Condi Rice talks about world shocks

In a speech in Sacramento, Former Secretary of State Condi Rice discussed the three great recent shocks that changed our world forever. 9/11, the financial crisis, and the Arab Spring.

CalWatchdog was there and notes that Rice says she grew up in segregated Alabama, lost a friend in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, and that [...]

Put it in the closet

YO! Tebow, your loss yesterday leaves it obvious that “God” doesn’t give a flying fig about football. What was it Jesus said about puffed-up pontificating pontificaters puffed-up-edly pontificating on street corners? Oh, right, put it in the closet.

Matthew 6:5-6:

When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in [...]

Willard Romney and the Republicans

Let’s put it to you this way: It’s like the Republicans just got the news that they’re pregnant and they’re trying to fall in love as rapidly as possible.

Occupy Wall Street. Liberty Square is much more than a park

When I got the first tweet telling me the barricades were being removed from Liberty Square, I was overwhelmed with happiness, and I can understand that a lot of people may not understand why it was a big deal. After all, it’s just a park, right? And I was certainly one of the voices post-eviction [...]

Assessing the potential economic impact of a Euro collapse

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The Eurozone will eventually collapse, with at least one member nation leaving this year, says the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), a noted British think tank. It sees a probability of 99% for a complete breakup within ten years. It could easily happen much faster. If one country leaves, it would [...]

Jerry Brown. Trust fund governor

American Leftist takes the interesting view that California Gov. Jerry Brown is just another out-of-touch, uncaring member of the 1%, and as such, supports them not us.

Jerry Brown has never had kids, never had to rely upon the public educational system for his education, never had to worry about getting retrained in order to [...]

Trickle down

The only thing that “trickles down” is wet and warm, and often yellow.

And speaking of yellow… while the vast majority of today’s politicians – those so enamored of sending our kids off to war – were enjoying multiple draft deferments or cushy gigs with the Texas Air National Guard I and my compatriots were [...]