“Our take: if the State of Texas wants to exclude Planned Parenthood from the Women’s Health Program, they’re going to need to go beyond technical support for their website to invest huge sums of money increasing access to care throughout the state, replicating the system they are seeking to eliminate.” “That’ll be the day.” –John [...]

I’m starting to think maybe it would be a good thing if Iran actually did develop and test a nuclear weapon; that way, nobody would dare attack them because of the old Mutually Assured Destruction(MAD)doctrine. And they wouldn’t use nukes on Israel or America for the same reason.

I live in Ohio, so I’ve already seen this one dozens of times. I’m not sure what’s worse, Romney’s Day One ad or Obama’s colorful little chart showing us how much better things are getting and asking us if it is wise to change course now. Sorry, I couldn’t find the ad; maybe it’s too [...]

Superb! What an elegantly powerful description of our sacred “free enterprise” system. An old philosophy professor of mine once asked, “In the concept of free enterprise, just exactly what is enterprise free to do?”

I think you’ll agree the obvious answer is “exploit.”

Highly recc’d.

Thanks for the informative post, Wendy, and recc’d. Seems to me that the question is no longer “Will there be war with Iran?” but “When will we go to war with Iran.” I suppose that depends on what the polls look like after Labor Day. Romney up? WAR! Don’t change Commanders-in-Chief in the middle of [...]

Surprise, surprise, surprise! (sarcasm intended) So what? What else do you expect from this House of Representatives? The standard of living of me and mine are on the line. Social issues such as abortion rights or gay rights or whatever rights are now unimportant. Don’t you get this? It’s a matter of survival. And I [...]

I doubt Minnesota would accept a signature from a registered Ohio voter.

Bummer.

“Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.” (sits down)
–Winston Churchill, full text of commencement speech at some American University I can’t remember, in some year I can’t remember either. Great quote, anyway.

Yet another “Fear the Big Bad Republican and Vote for Obama” post. Like Obama’s significantly different. He’s not. For instance, the article says, “Take education. Ordinarily, that’s a no-brainer for a presidential candidate. Sure, there are credible hairs to split on the issue, from school vouchers to standardized testing, but in the constellation of campaign [...]

Or you can contact Joe Biden. He’s from Delaware. He’ll understand. Oh…wait…

Thanks for the laugh, Dave. I needed that after a near miss on the way to work today. Interesting that the ad-writer confuses Uncle Sam with the nation of America. Traditionally, Uncle Sam referred to the federal government. At least I think he’s confused since he does say that the government can’t solve everything and [...]

So I guess you won’t be voting in November. Well, that’s good news.

Nothing to say on my other points, eh? Muy interesante. Es no dinero alla’ por su jefe’s?

Great post and righteous rant. I’ll just point out that capitalism has seldom provided the majority of a national population “ladders out of poverty.” Oh, it happened once upon a time in America, after World War II, when the industrial bases of every other major capitalist power lay in ruins and the capitalists themselves were [...]

Recc’d, Alan!

Will comment further when I get home from work this evening.

“No sooner did Al Qaeda manage to kill 3000 Americans in territorial USA, than the citizens of the United States were willing to lock the Bill of Rights in a drawer and misplace the key…” I don’t think that’s true. CONGRESS, including the overwhelming majority of both Democrats and Republicans, was, but most of the [...]

What a graceful and classy reply. Far more so than I would have been.

Ah, the International Jewish Communist conspiracy. Reminds me of a backyard BBQ in my youth. One of the neighbors, a dedicated member of the John Birch Society, was holding forth on how the Jews were corrupting our Anglo-Saxon and Germanic youth via Hollywood in such subversive films as “Easy Rider.” My mom told him that [...]

Very highly recc’d, Alan. I think the real reason people like Krugman and Reich won’t even consider an alternative to capitalism is because they themselves have profited immensely from our current system. I don’t think they are being moronic, more like deliberately duplicitous. They don’t won’t to kill the goose that laid their golden egg, [...]