“Radicalism is the Conservativism of Tomorrow…”

Jan Tucker on Dec 24, 2011, 5:03 pm

Ambrose Bierce wrote in his Devil’s Dictionarythat “Radicalism is the Conservativism of tomorrow, injected into the affairs of today.”

One of the joys of aging is to have been a radical in one’s youth, to continue to be a radical, and to be proven right (or in my case, be proven left?) about past ideas [...]

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Eric Bauman as LA’s Macchiavelli?

Jan Tucker on Dec 24, 2011, 4:58 pm

My commentary relates to this article which is running in the Los Angeles Weekly:

http://www.laweekly.com/2011-12-22/news/eric-bauman-l-a-democratic-party-kingmaker/#disqus_thread

The accusation that Eric Bauman is “Macchiavellian” is based on the unstated premise that Macchiavelli wrote in The Prince that “The ends justify the means.” Macchiavelli never wrote that phrase and if Eric is Macchiavellian, it is because his long [...]

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Peace and Freedom Party starts national campaign

Bob Morris on Aug 19, 2009, 5:30 am

While I applaud the Peace and Freedom Party, the only socialist party in California with ballot status, on their plans to go nationwide and get left candidates on the ballot everywhere, their press release announcing this is inept and makes the usual leftie mistakes.

Harsh words? Then consider the following, the opening paragraph of [...]

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