Phil Ochs. Love me, I’m a Liberal
From the 1960’s, still relevant. From his intro, liberals “are 10 degrees to the left of center in good times and 10 degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.” “Once I was young and impulsive I…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Category Politics
Arizona legislators push bill to allow guns on college campuses
In a move sure to be controversial and which has already received national attention, Arizona legislators have redrafted legislation to allow guns to be carried at public colleges and universities. Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a previous attempt, not because she…
Harbinger of things to come?
Willard Romney, the one-percenter Mormon, won the Iowa Republican Caucus over Christian Fascist Rick Santorum last night by a whooping eight votes”¦ with six votes less than he received there four years ago. Iowa, a state that has in seven of…
The most important issue this presidential election? It’s not a single “issue” at all
In the streets of Manhattan, during a weekend in late September, the faces of steel and concrete behemoths staring down at me, I quickly weaved my way through stopped cars. I moved with several thousand others. A collective elation filled…
“Radicalism is the Conservativism of Tomorrow…”
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,…