Grand Old Tea Party
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Grand Old Tea Party

Reactionaries are extremely conservative, especially opposed to social change, wanting to keep or return to past cultural values. Definitions always seem cut and dried, not allowing for nuance, but this definition perhaps lets us understand what is driven by the Grand Old Tea Party (GOTP, formerly less aptly called…

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November 24, 2013
CBS 60 Minutes Follows Fox News
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CBS 60 Minutes Follows Fox News

I have always held CBS’s Sixty Minutes in high esteem, that is until a few days ago when I learned that their eye-witness informant’s claim that he was there the night of the Benghazi attack, heroically scaling the 12 foot wall and encountering al Qaeda, was false. He claimed…

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November 13, 2013
Chris Christie — Another Bush?
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Chris Christie — Another Bush?

Bush won big in Texas in 1998. Chris Christie won big in New Jersey in 2013. Both based their presidential strength on big wins, but Christie on bi-partisan agreements as well -- the latter thanks to bargaining with a Democrat power broker, Norcross. Christie is a politician full of…

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November 11, 2013
Ignorance in Education: Black Panther Party vs. KKK
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Ignorance in Education: Black Panther Party vs. KKK

Via: Jamie Green Over the course of a few days, I’ve been learning about cults in my forensic psychology class. During this class, my professor made a slide in power point about extremist groups. In this slide, the KKK and the Black Panther Party were lumped together. My professor…

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November 8, 2013
International Child Trafficking: The Unfortunate Prevalence of Slavery
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International Child Trafficking: The Unfortunate Prevalence of Slavery

Follow more from Angel McLay --> here. What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “child trafficking”? A low-tech sweatshop somewhere in China, where kids are forced to make cheap sneakers? A rich, old bastard visiting some seedy brothel in Russia’s underworld to satisfy his illegal appetites? Or one…

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October 22, 2013
Now It’s Wile E. Coyote (Paul Ryan) & Roadrunner (Patty Murray)
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Now It’s Wile E. Coyote (Paul Ryan) & Roadrunner (Patty Murray)

Americans, don’t misguide your anger about the shutdown and the near default, which permanently lost us some $24 billion in economic output, according to Standard and Poor (S&P). Apply reason to the issue so that you can correct the menacing forces that cause all our problems – there can…

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October 22, 2013
Feel Manipulated? You Should!
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Feel Manipulated? You Should!

Last January, demoralized House Republicans trudged to a retreat in Williamsburg, Virginia to plot out their legislative strategy against President Obama for his second term. Common wisdom from mainstream media sources had them in retreat mode.  But Republican tradition, especially since the Newt Gingrich shutdown and stormy Speakership, oozes…

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October 8, 2013
Dogs of Default
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Dogs of Default

The Navy Yard shooting rampage highlights the ravages of a gun culture, but soon we’ll need to look at the potential carnage caused by the budget fight and its hostage-taking. Republicans, with Ted Cruz standing at the forefront, are – in effect – figuratively holding a gun to Obama’s…

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September 24, 2013
The Tea Party — Billionaire Scam?
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The Tea Party — Billionaire Scam?

Are politicians like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Michelle Bachmann, Paul Ryan, and Marco Rubio populist Tea Party vintage or just tools of the very rich? Is the obstruction caused by Tea Party representatives in Congress really grass-roots, or is it runaway ideologues playing for attention and uncontrolled by their…

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August 23, 2013
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