Remember when the dollar was about to be replaced by the Amero? For a couple of years starting around 2005, the secret emergence of the Amero as a unified currency for the US, Canada, and Mexico was one of the…
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What ever happened to the Amero?
Tagged with: amero, conspiracy, glenn beck, nafta, north american union, trans texas corridor
Posted in Tea Party, Texas
Posted in Tea Party, Texas
Republicans are haunted by The Stockman Effect
Sen. John Cornyn has built a successful career surfing the fickle tides of the far right nutjob fringe. That’s a remarkable challenge for a polished, well-educated, relatively sane guy who has seen a lot of the world. Cornyn’s talents were…
Tagged with: david dewhurst, john cornyn, republican, senate, senator, steve stockman, tea party, ted cruz
Posted in Neo-Confederate, Republican Party, Tea Party, Texas, Uncategorized
Posted in Neo-Confederate, Republican Party, Tea Party, Texas, Uncategorized
Steve Stockman is Finally Getting the Attention He Deserves
Steve Stockman’s financial affairs are just as bizarre as his politics. Stockman has pulled this stuff before. He was chased out of office in ’96 after only one miserable term, but like herpes, he just won’t go away.He became the…
What Comes After Obamacare
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.…
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
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…
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
Does the Tea Party Have Scots-Irish Roots?
Grandma said we’re Scots-Irish. The answer didn’t help much with my fourth grade class project on ancestry since she couldn’t tell me much more about it. “That’s what my Grandfather said we are,” she explained in that tone which meant…
The Very First Tea Party Speech
The Tea Party movement plainly has roots in earlier political trends, but it’s tough to pinpoint a seminal moment, a spark out of which this ideology of tribal rage took its modern form. By accident over the weekend I think…
Tagged with: neo-confederate, race, strom thurmond, tea party
Posted in Neo-Confederate, Race, Tea Party
Posted in Neo-Confederate, Race, Tea Party
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