Sunday Funnies
A round-up of some of the week’s best political cartoons: Matt Wuerker, POLITICO.com Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News Matt Wuerker, POLITICO.com John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune: Adam Zyglis, The...
View ArticleWhat Happens When the Far Right Really Ends Birth Control? The Malthusian...
Rick Santorum and the men of the GOP rail on about Right-to-Life issues. It’s a Republican conundrum: Appeasing the Religious Right creates a nightmarish welfare state abhorrent to selfish...
View ArticleElephant Droppings: The Far Right’s 10 Most Wanted
Power. That’s the name of the game in Republican politics. Not principle. Not vision. Who are the core players in that power game? t2P has combed several lists of ‘key’ Republican players from the...
View ArticleThe Republican Un-Civil War – The Neocons and the Tea Party Fight for Control...
This election is not about Obama-Romney as much as it is about the very uncivil Civil War being conducted in the Republican Party, where one of its two factions is culminating a 35 year party coup...
View ArticleWhen Politics Becomes Religion
“I Don’t Believe the Liberal Media” is a bumper sticker, a mantra, and an ignorant badge of honor and a disturbing trend: Ignorance is Right-hip. Birtherism, and baseless claims of ‘voter fraud’,...
View ArticleIt’s the Fear of the ‘Other’, Stupid: Of Romney, Racism, Republicans and...
At the final debate President Obama was on point, clearly knowledgeable versus being coached, and had the better one-liners of the evening. He’s also still the black guy to about 43% of the country....
View ArticleSmall SuperPACS: American Principles SuperPAC Funded by Questionably...
BOCA RATON, FLA – The SuperPAC disease on the American body politic isn’t just for big national funders like the Kochs. Poorer cousin, tall-hat, no cattle types with an axe to grind, particularly in...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with a Black History Month?
It’s Black History Month. Many conservatives, Libertarians and Tea Partiers disapprove. So what else is new? Charles C. W. Cooke of the Right-wing National Review suggests that Black History Month is...
View ArticleIs the Neocon-Tea Party War Running American Democracy Over the Political Cliff?
The future of this Democracy is no longer a Republican-Democrat thing. It rests in the results of a dogfight for the steering wheel of the GOP’s 1966 Thunderbird as it hurtles headlong towards what...
View ArticleHealth Care: The Real “Right to Life” the Right Wants Dead
Photo: Sage Ross There is a real “right to life” that has nothing to do with abortion. Universal access, not just to “affordable,” but the best free healthcare for all American citizens is a...
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