Romney, Torture and the American Right Wing
American torture, Mitt Romney as its representative.This is a story posted by Mother Jones last Tuesday. (Hat Tip Digby this morning.)On the world stage, Guantanamo may well stand as the epitome of...
View ArticleCartegena - what happened?
Cartegena Colombia is not someplace most Americans are familiar with but it is suddenly big in our political news. It seems that a dozen Secret Service employees are in trouble because they were on the...
View ArticleIs there an ALEC - Koch bros. conspiracy?
This is from Mary Bottary published in Huffpost.Wisconsinites were shell shocked in 2011 by a wide-ranging legislative agenda in their State Capitol that seemed to come out of the blue. Anti-consumer...
View ArticleRomney's claim as a businessman to run the government
There are two major differences between government and private enterprise that I have not seen discussed anywhere. Romney certainly will not discuss them - assuming he knows what they are which is...
View ArticleRepublican purging voters outside Florida
Voter purging not just a Florida thing. Here's a report from the Houston Chronicle as printed today in the Fort Worth Star Telegram:Texas aggressively purges voter registration files The Associated...
View ArticleWho is Paul Ryan in public?
Paul Ryan is an inconsistent person. He has long claimed to be a fiscal conservative and a budget hawk. This appears to me to be required when he is stumping for election in Janesville, WI. He is an...
View ArticleDon't dismiss Romney's lies as mere projection! They are much worse!
Romney is claiming that "President Obama is running a campaign of 'hate'" and saying that "the president sought to divide Americans based on 'income, age, and ethnicity.'" Comments claiming that Romney...
View ArticleAn explanation for Conservative Insanity/Nihilism
Fair warning. I have spent the summer session studying Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It's my current hammer, and Republican conservative racism looks to me like one gigantic nail. But I think...
View ArticleConfusion with the ACA is a result of the economic inequality of America.
Joan McCarter wrote an excellent diary Poll: People confused about Obamacare, but are willing to live with it. I started to comment, but as so often happens, the comment grew unwieldy, so here it is as...
View ArticleTrump's great Veep decision.
Trump, as far as I can tell, gets all his information from the media or from the adoring crowd he is walking through. He has also said repeatedly that he does not take advice, instead he makes his own...
View ArticleThe Media does not yet Understand Trump. They Should.
Trump is hard to understand because he is so mentally abnormal. Karl Albrecht laid it out in Psychology Today on January 5th.Here are the features that make Trump the person he is:...
View ArticleDemocrats fought two battles in 2016, not just one. Misogyny lost to Racism.
I don’t think the Democrats have realized the various social hierarchies that they have tried to get the conservatives to live with as equals. The big one since the Civil War was race, but since the...
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