Glenn Greenwald has a disturbing report concerning WikiLeaks, Bank of America, and the merger of corporate and government power in this country. I’m loathe to use the overused word “fascism” but the textbook definition of that particular f-word is the alignment of the government and economy of a country around corporatist interests. Just in case […]
© Joel Pett Is unbridled democracy really that scary to the US government?
© Tom Toles UPDATE: Apparently Mubarak changed his mind today.
I thought the goal was to establish democracy in Egypt, and try to get rid of their crushing corruption? How does having Mubarak step down, to be replaced by his handpicked vice president, guarantee this will happen? Something tells me that Mubarak is trying to pull a fast one in order to get the protests […]
A new poll from CNN shows that the most important thing they want in a presidential candidate in 2012 is someone who can defeat Obama — even if that candidate disagrees with them on major issues and ideology. I guess I’m happy that Republicans are taking a slight break from ideology, but only so they […]
In 2003, Boeing decided to use a very aggressive outsourcing strategy in order to slash the cost of developing their new 787 Dreamliner. But last month, the Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief admitted that this strategy backfired completely — outsourcing cost far more money than it saved, and led to a three year delay in the […]
© Matt Davies Some Republicans seem to be falling over each other proclaiming that we can’t allow Egypt to have a democracy, since they might, you know, decide to do something we can’t predict or — worse — don’t like. Get over it.
[This is an excerpt from a post in Fred Wickham’s Bullseye Rooster. Dan is Fred’s brother, and Buzz is his business partner in a small business. I totally agree with this idea.] Two years ago, Dan and Buzz were heartened by the election of Obama. Aside from all the marvelous change he would be bringing […]
Today is Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday (they will even start the Super Bowl with a video tribute to the Gipper), so it is fitting to look back on his legacy. Is Reagan a true American hero, or was he simply the first actor to play the role of President in real life? I’m not sure, […]
© Vic Harville The largest American oil company, Exxon Mobil, recently announced that their profits for the fourth quarter of 2010 had increased by a staggering 53%. This was in line with strong increases in profits of other large energy companies, largely due to rising oil prices. But it gets worse. Oil prices are continuing […]
© Keith Tucker Thom Hartmann has more to say about this. UPDATE: An interesting insider’s view of what is really happening in Egypt.
[I’m reprinting this from Margaret and Helen. There is a followup posting there that you should read as well. – iron knee] I told you, Margaret. It’s only just beginning. Texas Governor Rick Perry said he will introduce emergency legislation requiring women seeking abortions to first get a sonogram of the fetus and listen to […]
© Ed Stein I love the fact that Ed Stein includes insightful commentary about his political cartoons on his blog. Here’s his comentary for this cartoon: It will be interesting, to say the least, to see how far the spontaneous popular revolution in Tunisia will spread through the Arab world. Will it stop in Egypt, […]
What could be more American than football and the Superbowl? Ironically football — as practiced in the US — is socialist. Now, this doesn’t mean I’m promoting socialism. I’m a hard core capitalist and I believe in free enterprise. But I’m also pragmatic enough to realize that there are situations where free market capitalism doesn’t […]
© Clay Bennett Once upon a time, about 50 years ago, we had higher taxes and spent it on things like education and space exploration, which led to the technology and products we enjoy today. But now, a majority of high school biology teachers don’t even teach evolution, ranking us 34th out of 35 developed […]
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