Category Archives: Politics

Alan Grayson Explains the Occupy Wall Street Movement to Dimwit P.J. O’Rourke

I used to like O’Rourke in his ‘Republican Reptile’ days, but today he’s just become an embarrassingly unfunny drudge who cracks lame jokes based on addled conservative propaganda demeaning liberals that were moldly when William F. Buckley was young. O’Rourke should know better, … Continue reading

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Why Occupy Wall Street Doesn’t Need to Articulate a Damn Thing

The Rude Pundit says it all on the Big Corporate Media playing dumb as to what OWS is protesting: Oct. 5, 2011 An Inarticulate Articulation of Why Occupy Wall Street Doesn’t Need to Articulate a Damn Thing: Oh, shut the … Continue reading

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Today’s Quote: JFK on Revolution

He was probably referring to civil rights, but it still applies today as we watch the nonviolent Occupy Wall Street protests in cities all over the country, which are basically about civil rights — in this case, economic civil rights. … Continue reading

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Too Big to Fail vs. Too Big to Ignore

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The Times They Are A-Changin’ by Bob Dylan

They did after 1964 when Bob released this song, with Americans taking to the streets to end the Vietnam debacle and the draft, and usher in civil rights and women’s rights, just as they are taking to the streets today … Continue reading

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We Are the 99 Percent

This means YOU! (Unless you’re filthy rich.) From the We Are The 99 Percent website: We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied … Continue reading

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Wall Street Protests: The Turning of the Screwed

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Waiting For a Sign? Here They Are, Too Big to Ignore…

The children of the 1980s business-school yuppies who cared about little but making money and voted for Republicans because they erroneously thought they were ‘good for business’ and would lower taxes on the middle-class, are now in their 20s and … Continue reading

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Palin Not Running

Although she’s using the excuse that ‘my family comes first’ that’s just Republicanese for ‘my polling is so low I’m being beaten by Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and a crazy black pizza guy and, besides, I’d have to give up … Continue reading

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Ronald Reagan on Taxing the Wealthy

This is why St. Ronnie would not be welcome in the GOP of today. Here’s President Ronald Reagan in 1985: As the Center for American Progress’ Seth Hanlon and Michael Linden put it, “in calling for the ‘Buffett Rule,’ Obama … Continue reading

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