Category Archives: Politics
US POLITICS: “California Democrats Show Republicans What Good Government Looks Like” ☮
Over the past three years there has been no dearth of examples of what Americans have to look forward to if Republicans ever gained control of all three branches of government. States like Kansas, Louisiana, and Wisconsin are prime examples of Republicans piling up crushing debt, cutting services, destroying education, and killing jobs by pandering to the ultra-rich and corporations. It is obvious that in Republican-led states, like the United States Congress, conservatives have demonstrated their ineptitude to govern as a matter of course, and if they do govern, it is only to benefit a very small portion of their populations.
There is one example of a state that leads the nation in economic growth, job creation, and the ability to govern for all the people. This week, in a seriously stunning editorial by a very conservative newspaper they readily admit and praise California with its Democratic super-majority and governor as the model the rest of the nation and Republicans in Congress should follow.
CONSERVATISM: To Wreck a Country / Molly Ivins ☮
WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN IDIOCY: “Ben Carson: Pledge of Allegiance Proves We’re A Christian Nation” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
VIDEO JOURNALISM: “Here is the Fucking News!” / Jonathan Pie ☮
GUN CONTROL: “Cocks Not Glocks: Students Use Sex Toys To Protest Open Carry” ☮ / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian
WHITE-WING AMURIKKKAN HISTORY: “Christopher Columbus Was Worse Than ISIS” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola ☮
WHITE-WING AMURIKKKAN HISTORY: “Mother Outs Textbooks That Call Slave Trade ‘Worker Immigration’ Instead” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian ☮
US FOREIGN POLICY: “Afghanistan and Iraq: Lessons for the Imperial” / Ralph Nader ☮
The photographs in the New York Times told contrasting stories last week. One showed two Taliban soldiers in civilian clothes and sandals, with their rifles, standing in front of a captured U.N. vehicle. The Taliban forces had taken the northern provincial capital of Kunduz. The other photograph showed Afghan army soldiers fully equipped with modern gear, weapons, and vehicles.
Guess who is winning? An estimated thirty-thousand Taliban soldiers with no air force, navy, or heavy weapons have been holding down ten times more Afghan army and police and over 100,000 U.S. soldiers with the world’s most modern weaponry – for eight years.
AMURIKKAN MISOGYNY: “You and I Are, in Fact, Unequal” ☮
h/t: The Huffington Post
