The GOP has embarked yet another desperate push to persuade the public that the Affordable Care Act is too flawed to tolerate. The far right wins this ill-conceived campaign they may be very, very disappointed when they see their prize.…
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What Comes After Obamacare
Tagged with: affordable care act, death panel, healthcare.gov, keep your insurance, medicaid, obamacare, single payer
Posted in Health Care, Tea Party
Posted in Health Care, Tea Party
Frontline on Lee Harvey Oswald
Frontline does it again. Maybe the best documentary ever on the Kennedy Assassination. Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald
Posted in Uncategorized
We Keep Outrunning “The Future”
Walter Kronkite recorded this vision of a fantastic, sci-fi future back in 1969. This “computerized communications console” is what a man might use to do work in the 21st Century, because in the future men do the work. He can…
Preparing for a Post-Jobs Economy
The software company VMware has roughly the same market value as General Motors. VMware has 13,000 employees. GM employs almost a quarter of a million people. In addition to the current workforce, GM supports roughly half a million retired workers…
Tagged with: basic income, ownership society, unemployment
Posted in Economics, Ownership Society, Republican Party
Posted in Economics, Ownership Society, Republican Party
My Favorite Republican
The lost hero of modern conservatism was a charismatic maverick who represented the best hope for the post-Cold War Republican Party. He gave us an opportunity to build the Party’s center-right posture into a post-racial juggernaut that could have dominated…
Where the Crazy May Be Coming From
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke Our politics is getting weird. We’ve always struggled against opportunism and corruption and lying. But the fresh rise of what can only fairly be described as “crazy” is…
Tagged with: alvin toeffler, birthers, donald trump, future shock, tea party
Posted in Political Theory, Tea Party
Posted in Political Theory, Tea Party
Can the GOP Survive Without an Enemy?
Senator Ted Cruz raised eyebrows earlier this year by implying that Sec. of Defense nominee and former GOP Senator Chuck Hagel might be on the North Korean payroll. Last year Congressman Allen West found 81 members on the Communist Party…
Ann Coulter is the Andy Kaufman of Politics
Andy Kaufman is remembered as a comedian, but that’s only a default label. We haven’t coined a term for what he did for a living. His most popular role was the one he hated most, playing the lovable Latka Gravas on…
How Fundamentalists and Libertarians Buried the Hatchet
Rand Paul is an unlikely fundamentalist hero. He was a rebel in his days at deeply religious Baylor University, apparently forming some sort of half-sarcastic, anti-religious student group. He’s a libertarian who quotes Ayn Rand and hasn’t denied his past…
Tagged with: fundamentalist, moral majority, neo-confederate, rand paul, tea party, von mises, weyrich
Posted in Libertarian, Neo-Confederate, Political Theory, Religious Right, Republican Party, Tea Party
Posted in Libertarian, Neo-Confederate, Political Theory, Religious Right, Republican Party, Tea Party
The End of America…Again
In British tradition there is a one-line statement that announces the passing of a monarch: “The King is dead. Long live the King.” A political institution with a 1500 year history spanning war, conquest, and in several instances its own…
Tagged with: immigration, pat buchanan, race
Posted in Immigration, Political Theory, Race, Tea Party
Posted in Immigration, Political Theory, Race, Tea Party
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