"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
From a review by Gordon Coale Deer Hunting with Jesus looks at the now and trembles for the future. I first ran across Joe Bageant on the internet. Aside from being a hell of a writer, a veritable silver tongued…
Putin has created a budding bunch of little stormtroopers, a youth brigade. “The idea was to create an ideology based on a total devotion to the president and his course”and indeed they been warmed up to their new thuggish roles…
The Defense Minister of Australia screwed up seriously recently by saying oil was a major reason for Australia to keep troops in Iraq. The Prime Minister immediately went into damage control mode after this unwarranted and scurrilous truth-telling.
Every Western nation but the US has free health care, this includes England, Canada, and France. Sicko is brilliant, and I found it unsettling. Moore documents the inaccessible, expensive US health system where people lose their homes because of medical…
From the Wall Street Journal, no less. (Their investigative reporting remains excellent even as neanderthals lumber across their editorial page. Lest we forget, it was WSJ that broke the Enron story. Two of their reporters went digging and said, whoa,…