“Last week, ThinkProgress made news (and tempers flare) when it reported that the US Chamber of Commerce is actively seeking foreign investment in a general account that it also uses to fund partisan political attack ads. Some Democratic lawmakers and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have called for a federal investigation into the alleged use […]
. . . . . . “Henry Paulson, U.S. Treasury secretary during the bailout and a former Goldman Sachs CEO, let it slip during testimony to Congress last summer when he explained why it was so critical to bail out Goldman Sachs, and — oh yes — the other banks. People “were unhappy […]
It appears that the Chamber of Commerce wants to play “Star Chamber,” so far as its secrecy of procedings goes. Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum writes, responding to C of C lobbyist Bruce Josten’s lame explanation for keeping donors’ names secret, “Josten is . . . saying that rich corporations want the ability to hound and […]
Shooting a minnow in a barrel with a grin-ade? Oh, Mr. Livesay, I’m so sorry for you! Harvey Rifkin, one of the wisest men in town, needs no defense, so I make no remark on the excellence of his editorial, “The symbolism and substance of patriotism” (Oct. 12.) I mention only that your cramped outlook […]
Why should any male Democrat care if an unconsciously fascist, lady reactionary calls him an egotist? Even if she writes nice, clear English in a pejorative manner to defend admiringly a fellow reactionary whose virtual fascism, like hers, doesn’t rise to the level of self- awareness? Obviously, he’s such a high class, accomplished gentleman that […]
We have much information on how humans evolved and what their shortcomings are. People need better grasp of how they are in the world individually as well as in groups, collectively. How do we relate to our bodies? Do we have souls or spirits? Is nature produced by supernature? Are we connected to each other […]
Can you believe how far below the bottom of the barrel these ‘PubLickans and Tea Party zombies will go to dig up the low types they let speak for them and run for office? Karl Rove, the fat-cheeked Machiavelli? Newt Gingrich, the failed, immoral and discredited ‘wonk’ who shut down our government and got whipped raw […]
We need to get past stock ideas to real understanding. Politics is pointless to discuss until we know ourselves. We need to know what we are collectively and who we are personally. These two knowledges at best will not conflict with each other. This does not mean persons should never struggle against consensus, nor that […]
Whence came this unshakable certainty among too-far right-wingers in a complex of notions which, to them, seems so self-evident as to need no test?–a socio-political and psychological complex so deep in themselves they cannot grasp its dimensions, sources or fallibility?–a complex they cannot analyze correctly in relation to other political ideas and attitudes because, though […]
Patriotism is one of those shifty values the ultra-wrong Rightists claim for themselves. We all feel attached to our homes. We feel connected to a local landscape. We identify ourselves with the people of our land. We extend these feelings as loyalty to our whole nation and especially to its Constitution, which we know is […]