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  • The professional left

    [published April 2011 on TPV] Since Barack Obama began to find success in the Democratic primaries of 2008 he and his supporters have attracted virulent attacks from the professional left of liberal commentariat, lobbyists, pundits, think tankers, and academics. The underlying basis for the attacks is class – the class…

  • Talk about an entitlement: Wall Street Journal demands risk free returns for the rich

    The invaluable Wall Street Journal editorialists provide a clear explanation of the kind of free market that the entitled 1% want: one where all risks are on the backs of the people who work for a living while all rewards are reserved for “investors”.  Stockton California is moving towards bankruptcy…

  • Standing with Rand back through history

    Some paragraphs from Rand Paul’s speech and speeches from a couple of decades ago. There are some easy give-aways, especially at the end and the first paragraph, but take a look. The President says, I haven’t killed anyone yet. He goes on to say, and I have no intention of…

  • The modern GOP is shaped by Nixon’s treason

    The recent confirmation that Richard Nixon secretly conspired to sabotage peace talks President Johnson was holding with Vietnam also confirms the modern Republican party as a party of treason against the United States.  Nixon secretly told the government of South Vietnam it would get a better deal from him than…

  • Obamacare’s third anniversary

    Markos Moulatsis on Twitter 2009 My position on #HCR – kill it if it includes mandate. Strip out the mandate, then what’s left is inoffensive. Not reform, but inoffensive.    about 1 hour ago   from TweetDeck   RT @xxxxxx: What is irksome, and deadly, is that individual mandate is…

  • Digby haz a sad

    Using this precedent [the bombing of Cambodia – root] to justify the current covert war across the globe is truly astonishing. That it’s being done by the president who most people see as the most liberal since FDR is just sad.- Digby Tsk tsk.This is a variant of a favorite…

  • The Progressive Libertarians fall for Rand Paul’s scam

    Why I don’t call myself a progressive #billion. The funniest thing about the “filibuster” is that it didn’t actually delay the vote. Under the Senate’s idiotic rules, the closure vote had to “ripen” for 30 hours anyways. So the whole thing was just a media stunt. But this didn’t stop…

  • Progressive finance hysteria from 2011

    Published in People’s View in 2011. Bank of America moved some derivatives from its Merrill-Lynch subsidiary to its depository bank and the so-called “progressive” blogs became very upset. One problem with their reporting is that apparently none of the “Progressive” financial experts understands what"notional" means so they really over-state how…

  • Who speaks for progressives?

    Congresswoman Barbara Lee and David Sirota on the health care bill Sirota this is a telling indictment of the health care law itself, strongly suggesting that it was constructed by the Obama administration – as some progressives argued – as a massive taxpayer-financed giveaway to private insurers like Wellpoint. Congresswoman…

  • The Supreme Court versus the Constitution: again

    The Constitution says that there is a process to  amend the Constitution and the amendments passed according to this process then “shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution”. Article. V. The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose…