WASHINGTON -- Here's the thing to watch in this year's campaign: Democrats are trying to be populists and pro-business moderates at the same time. The tea party's success in transforming the Republican Party is making this two-step possible as conservatism's increasingly ferocious opposition to government creates points of friction with both business and middle-class … [Read more...] about Pro-business populism?
New Worries, Old Typewriters and Old Worries
[icopyright one button toolbar] As a result of the alleged U.S. spying on the German government, Newsweek is reporting that a German commission looking into the U.S. spying scandal may be considering the use of the old-fashioned manual typewriters as an anti-spy measure. When asked whether the committee investigating the “spying scandal” was in fact entertaining such an … [Read more...] about New Worries, Old Typewriters and Old Worries
Liberal Democrats and Libertarian Republicans Working On Common Goals
[icopyright one button toolbar] Republicans have always had a libertarian wing but their influence and willingness to fight for true freedom has varied over time. Far too often Republican talk of freedom turns into the freedom of businesses to ignore necessary regulations or the freedom to impose their social and religious values upon others. Limited government also far too … [Read more...] about Liberal Democrats and Libertarian Republicans Working On Common Goals
Cartoons: Archie’s Pals
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Elizabeth Warren’s charm (Guest Voice)
Elizabeth Warren's charm By Richard K. Barry I fully understand why Hillary Clinton is still playing hard to get. Though we all know she will be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, she has to roll out that fact on her own timetable in order to minimize her exposure as a target for her opponents. Elizabeth Warren will not run for the Democratic presidential … [Read more...] about Elizabeth Warren’s charm (Guest Voice)
Life imitates bad joke: Arizona politician mistakes ‘Y’ campers for migrant children
[icopyright one button toolbar] There's a very old joke about the stupid racist who goes to a rally against illegal immigrants from Mexico and yells "Go back to Africa!" or the stupid KKKer who goes to a black church and yells "Go back to Mexico!" And now we have this tidbit from Arizona: a politician who got all excited about positioning himself to show the world (and the … [Read more...] about Life imitates bad joke: Arizona politician mistakes ‘Y’ campers for migrant children
Gov. Martin O’Malley Dings President Obama, Hillary Clinton on Border Crisis
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is looking more and more like a possible Democratic presidential candidate and he's putting some distance between himself and President Obama, particularly on the border crisis and the undocumented children streaming across the borders. Watch out Hillary, maybe the nomination isn't yours for the taking. O'Malley believes these children, or … [Read more...] about Gov. Martin O’Malley Dings President Obama, Hillary Clinton on Border Crisis
Gaza: Why Hamas Rejected the Cease-fire
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Rick Perry: Like Dick Cheney, Only Dumber
Daniel Larison takes Rick Perry's foreign policy argument apart in The American Conservative. Perry’s argument is the usual hawkish combination of threat inflation, fear-mongering, lazy references to “isolationism,” and stale Reagan nostalgia. He talks about a “profound” threat to the U.S. and the entire world from a jihadist group when it is no such thing, and hopes that his … [Read more...] about Rick Perry: Like Dick Cheney, Only Dumber
What’s Missing in the Current Immigration ‘Crisis’ Debate (Guest Voice)
What's Missing in the Current Immigration 'Crisis' Debate By Ron Paul Over the past several weeks we have seen a significant increase in illegal immigration, as thousands of unaccompanied minors pour across what seems an invisible southern border into the United States. The mass immigration has, as to be expected, put an enormous strain on local resources, and it has heated … [Read more...] about What’s Missing in the Current Immigration ‘Crisis’ Debate (Guest Voice)
Unreality and Child Protection
[icopyright one button toolbar] South Carolina police have jailed a mother and placed her daughter in protective custody. The mother's crime? Allowing her daughter to play in a park crowded with other children while mom worked at McDonald's. The case highlights a little-noticed problem in how laws protecting children have evolved. Basically, the concept of … [Read more...] about Unreality and Child Protection
Is Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in big political trouble?
[icopyright one button toolbar] So much for having him being seen as a political whirlwind who'll easily serve many years as Chicago's mayor. Rahm Emanuel has hit a political speed-bump. Part of it is due to the blood-fest that descended on Chicago on the 4th of July. And part of it is because no one has ever accused his political style of being endearing or even in … [Read more...] about Is Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in big political trouble?
Not enough people like Republicans to assure them a win
[icopyright one button toolbar] Whether we're talking 2014 or 2016, the landscape doesn't seem to look very welcoming to Republicans. Chris Cillizza, in an update, sees no clear wins except in the bought-'n'-paid for districts. Obama no longer offers any boost for Dems, nor any hope for a deal with Congressional Republicans, but it's the Republicans who are taking the … [Read more...] about Not enough people like Republicans to assure them a win
Republicans rant but offer no solutions
WASHINGTON -- Apparently there's a contest among Republicans to see who can be more shameless and irresponsible in criticizing President Obama's foreign policy. So far, Chris Christie is winning. The New Jersey governor alleged Saturday that "the unrest you see in the Middle East is caused in some measure -- not completely, but in some measure -- by the fact that this … [Read more...] about Republicans rant but offer no solutions
ISIL Hoists Saudi Royals By Their Own Petards (Le Quotidien d’Oran, Algeria)
How much responsibility does Saudi Arabia have for the chaos cause to Syria, Iraq and the entire region by the now-infamous Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant? For Algeria's Le Quotidien d'Oran, noted columnist Kharroubi Habib writes that in an effort to displace al-Qaeda, which seeks the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, Saudi 'strategists' decided to back a new group - … [Read more...] about ISIL Hoists Saudi Royals By Their Own Petards (Le Quotidien d’Oran, Algeria)
Bill Maher On Republican Zombie Lies About Obamacare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUm2k-a7tfc Bill Maher had a rant against all those Republican lies about Obamacare which, despite being repeatedly debunked, are still out there--neither dead or alive, like Dick Cheney. The same is true about all those other lies which Republicans tell, since facts do not matter to them. Video above and transcript (via Daily Kos) … [Read more...] about Bill Maher On Republican Zombie Lies About Obamacare
Archie Takes A Bullet To Save Gay Friend
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Puerile Paul Punks Purblind Perry
Any resemblance to Zell Miller is completely cosmic. [icopyright one button toolbar] There is something ultimately satisfyingly schadenfreudey about watching Right Wing cranks fight. To wit(less): Rick Perry Is Dead Wrong Sen. Rand Paul / Politico There are many things I like about Texas Gov. Rick Perry, including his stance on the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. But … [Read more...] about Puerile Paul Punks Purblind Perry
Donar Cartoon: Iwreck map
https://politicalgraffiti.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/iwreck/ Copyright 2014 David Donar. All rights reserved. Copyright Donar, Political Graffiti … [Read more...] about Donar Cartoon: Iwreck map
You Have Never Been Right About Anything (Up Dated)
This was good to see. Rick Santelli is CNBC's equivalent of Sarah Palin so I really enjoyed seeing his fellow CNBC corespondents taking him on. If you’re at all familiar with CNBC’s Rick Santelli, you know he almost never appears on the network without a shoutfest ensuing. The financial commentator — long considered the godfather of the tea party movement for his 2009 … [Read more...] about You Have Never Been Right About Anything (Up Dated)