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  • Thurgood Marshall’s unsentimental constitutionalism

    Remarks of Thurgood Marshall At The Annual Seminarof theSAN FRANCISCO PATENT AND TRADEMARK LAW ASSOCIATIONIn Maui, Hawaii May 6, 1987. Original : here 1987 marks the 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution. A Commission has been established to coordinate the celebration. The official meetings, essay contests, and festivities have…

  • Left Wing America is SUFFERING

    This series of events, described in Walter Johnson’s River of Dark Dreams, ought to jangle the nerves. It is, after all, an “if you see something, say something” story. Its main elements—racialized intelligence gathering, torture, extralegal investigation, and execution—are those of the shadow wars of the modern American imperium. What…

  • White privilege and vodka

    ( I wrote this during the Obama administration. Sadly, Peggy now has the sads about the black woman in the VP office.) I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot,…

  • The roots of Conservative treason against the United States

    From the founding of the United States there was a tension between the government and the slave ideologists. By the 1830s this conflict was beginning to boil over into war.  We now begin to experience the danger of admitting so great an error to have a place in the declaration…

  • Obamacare versus propaganda

    Claim: Obamacare was a Federal takeover of health care Reality: The Federal government and our tax dollars were already paying for much of the health care system, Obamacare just tries to get some value for dollar. Although we spend hundreds of billions on Medicare, before Obamacare a  Medicare supplier kicked…

  • Geithner, Summers, Obama versus Krugman

    There’s so much to like about where Obama is going — health care, transparency in government, ending the war in Iraq. And the stimulus bill is OK, though not big enough. But on the question of fixing the banks, many of us are feeling a growing sense of despair. Obama…

  • Dean Baker”s complaint

    [..]President Obama was celebrating the “green shoots of recovery” less than two months after the passage of the stimulus, at a time when the economy was still losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month. Rather than trying to explain to the country that the hole created by the downturn…

  • Credibility, hard hitting journalism, and the NSA

    RUSSELL TICE: This was in 2002-2003 time frame. The NSA were targeting individuals. In that case, they were judges like the Supreme Court. I held in my hand Judge Alito’s targeting information for his phones and his staff and his family. [PBS] Alito became a Supreme Court Justice in 2006.…

  • Larry Summers and Celebrity Journalism

    Larry Summers has a far deeper analysis of the wealth inequality crisis in America than many economists who are widely perceived of as to his left – such as Christy Romer and Paul Krugman. For more than a decade, Summers has challenged the orthodox economic model with observations such as…

  • The supposedly unprecedented violations of civil liberties by the Obama administration

    1 We have in the Obama administration – there’s nobody even close to the violation of privacy and civil liberties, nobody even close.  They can talk about Bush here, but nobody compares to what Obama’s done. 2 Despite his clear and popular promises to the contrary, President Obama has not…