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  • Forbes helps Ayn Rand Fans dumb America down

    The far right has inherited the traditional ideology that is called “idolatry” in the Bible. In the place of the world God created, they insist that their  twisted, crippled, mean little fantasy is reality. Forbes, which should know better has published an example of this stuff from people who idolize…

  • Vote as if your life depended on it: Katrina and Sandy

    As FEMA competently reaches out to help victims of Sandy, I find myself getting absurdly, horribly, deeply angry. Why? Because I remember what the Bush administration did to the people of New Orleans. You know how on summer Sunday nights, you can bounce around TV? Well, the Science channel had…

  • The election, class, and the “left”

    The intensity of the right wing corporate campaign to remove Barack Obama from the White House is undeniable. A disciplined and unprecedented campaign of obstruction in Congress was followed by a putsch-like judicial insurrection that overturned 100 years of laws limiting campaign expenses. A  lavishly funded national campaign to  suppress…

  • Mythologizing FDR

    Here’s FDR’s banking program, in his own words: Remember that the essential accomplishment of the new legislation is that it makes it possible for banks more readily to convert their assets into cash than was the case before. More liberal provision has been made for banks to borrow on these…

  • The fundamental economic issue

    The fundamental economic issue

    The big scandal of the last 100 years is that poverty and scarcity are unnecessary  – except to keep the social order in place.  Technology makes it possible for most people to have basic needs met, without anyone having to be poor. But that would make it harder to stay…

  • Differences between the Great Depression and the Great Recession #1

    It was then that I issued the proclamation providing for the nation-wide bank holiday, and this was the first step in the Government’s reconstruction of our financial and economic fabric. The second step was the legislation promptly and patriotically passed by the Congress confirming my proclamation and broadening my powers…

  • Amnesiac Fake Leftism and Greenwald

    Glenn,I appreciate your sarcasm. The change in our country over the last 30 years makes me so sad. I teach government, and I tell the truth to my students. I keep it subversive. The pathetic comment above comes in response to a Greenwald column that sarcastically and scathingly denounces the…

  • The Obama method

    Senator Barack Obama writing to DailyKos 2005 According to the storyline that drives many advocacy groups and Democratic activists – a storyline often reflected in comments on this blog – we are up against a sharply partisan, radically conservative, take-no-prisoners Republican party.  They have beaten us twice by energizing their…

  • Paul Krugman and poker

    Simpson-Bowles is terrible…. It offers nothing on Medicare that isn’t already in the Affordable Care Act. And it raises the Social Security retirement age because life expectancy has risen — completely ignoring the fact that life expectancy has only gone up for the well-off and well-educated, while stagnating or even…

  • Economics on the slant

    Economics on the slant

    [ This essay was first published at the People’s View Feb 2011 and has some notes as updates]. Most of us think of economic theories as lining up from left to right, from communism to free-marketism, but there is a whole other school of economics that is on a slant…