Socialist, fascist, communist - all accusations thrown at the President, and at liberal programs, and all equally pointless. What we're really discussing is unease at change. We muddy our debates with fright words reduced to symbolic, not political science, meanings. »
Newsy.com is a news service that combines coverage from mulitple news outlets into a single story. This saves viewers surfing time and can help balance out media bias from any one source. Recent video on Nidal Hasan is embedded here. »
Frank Luntz in a recent interview remarks on the town hall anger over health care reform as if he had nothing to do with creating it. Is he blind or conniving? »
The Brits save our bacon on a terrorist bomb plot, in spite of our threat to "sever intelligence links" with them over the Lockerbie bomber. What *were* we thinking? »
In a footnote to my earlier post about the Ft. Hood shootings, the mastermind of the murderous "D.C. Sniper" duo arrested in 2002 is due to be executed tomorrow. »
The tragic shooting at Ft Hood is being used to drum up anti-Muslim sentiments, but scapegoating a minority doesn't solve our problems. Our track record of violence comes from many groups and people, not a singular Terrorist Boogeyman that is so easy to fear. »
From Bush's Iraq war to fundamentalist Christian social policies, authoritarianism has many faces in American politics. This school of thought prizes control at any cost, abhors compromise, and is insidiously anti-democratic. This post outlines broad aspects of conservative authoritarianism, and why this presents a threat to our democracy. »
Authoritarians and their religious-right cohorts have reshaped conservatism and account for the idiosyncratic direction of the modern Republican party. This and future posts will explore the impact of authoritarianism on democracy and our government. »
Obama dismisses race as "overriding issue" in the criticism against him, but ignoring this issue squanders opportunity for meaningful dialog about race. »
Birthers take issue with the citizenship of Barack Obama, but the real threat of this movement is to the legitimacy of the office of the President. »
