Again, when things don't go their way, Republicans try altering reality
From the defeated Republican attempt in Texas to impose onerous, sweeping bans on abortion in that state, this line from coverage in UK's The Guardian, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/...Initially,...
View ArticleTaking science and Obama at his word, Keystone pipeline ought to die
President Obama said this week his administration will not approve the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline from Canada into the US unless it can be determined that the project will not significantly...
View ArticleTHE LUV GUV: When Scott Walker reaches out to hug you, run!
"I love Milwaukee," Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told a reporter a few months back. The right-wing Republican was responding to criticisms that his policies were taking away constitutionally guaranteed...
View ArticleSHOT CLOCK: The unintentional architect of GOP stalling is... basketball's...
Metaphorically speaking, Republican Party political strategy looks more and more like it was crafted by former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith. He's the highly successful tactician who...
View ArticleA modest solution to the government snooping crisis: Sky's the limit!
It's simple: Merge NASA and NSA. Call the combined agency the National Aeronautics and Security Administration. Then load up our biggest booster rockets with all of those huge NSA supercomputers and...
View ArticleDementia and guns don't mix
Largely unnoticed in the flair of Florida's outrageous George Zimmerman trial was a similar incident in Milwaukee, where a jury found white shooter John Henry Spooner guilty of fatallly shooting a...
View ArticleGigantic open-pit mine: Good! But nearby camp site: Bad! Bad!
Move on! There's nothing to see here, but we must insist you go away because, between you and me, there is something to see hereIn northern Wisconsin, where environmentalists and native tribes are...
View ArticleThe NRA secret gun registry database that probably isn't secret
Wouldn't you know: The very gun-centric organization that rails against any law allowing the government to keep gun ownership records keeps its own secret gun ownership records on many millions of...
View ArticleScott Walker, like Reagan, paints white guys like himself as victims
Where Scott Walker goes in search of right-wing and even racist political support, Ronald Reagan went before him.Back in 1980, beginning what would be his successful quest for the presidency, Reagan...
View ArticleWisconsin's Walker and GOP: reward rich friends, punish everyone else
I know, it's getting to be a broken record, but when it comes to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his GOP enablers who control the state legislature, the record of breaking things is so vast we...
View ArticleFrederik Pohl, a short appreciation
Frederik Pohl was a great writer who happened to write science fiction, mostly. Imaginative, stirring tales were his forte. He wrote dozens of novels and untold short stories, stretching the limits of...
View ArticleThe bigger Syria issue: GOP bait and switch tactics
Whether you favor or oppose any kind of military action by the US against Syria in reaction to the Syrian government's evident use of internationally banned chemical weapons that killed more than a...
View ArticleDear Mr. President: On Republican shutdown, throw deep!
When you're an American politician in the throes of a policy showdown, it doesn't hurt to consider WWRRD -- What Would Ronald Reagan Do? Not all of his actions, surely, would be palatable to...
View ArticleTed Cruz: Vociferous anti-appeaser who demands ... appeasement!
Most of the focus on Sen. Ted Cruz's meandering quasi-filibuster (it wasn't really a filibuster) has concerned his odd reading from the Dr. Seuss book "Green Eggs and Ham." Critics noted that the moral...
View ArticleMore proof that 'disaster capitalism' and the 'shock doctrine' are alive and...
These are two terms referring to much the same thing, well documented by political journalists such as Thomas Frank ("The Wrecking Crew") and Naomi Klein ("The Shock Doctrine"). And if you doubt they...
View ArticleWisconsin's Scott Walker out of this world, slingshotting pals into cushy jobs
Who knew? Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is an accomplished astrophysicist. Must be so, because he's perfected NASA's long-used technique (applied again this week with its Juno robot probe) to "slingshot"...
View ArticleWell, Mr. Speaker, there's your problem, right there.
From a report in the conservative National Review, evidence that John Boehner and his merry band of Republicans regard public policymaking as an exercise in bomb throwing:Referring to his plan to...
View ArticleYour corporate media, still working hard to diss public workers --...
In Wisconsin yesterday, Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas declared two political appointees of Gov. Scott Walker in contempt of court for ignoring his ruling that 400 public employee unions in the...
View ArticleThe real NSA scandal: It regards itself as having "customers"
News that the National Security Agency spied on 35 world leaders, a fact revealed in data released by Edward Snowden, has focused on the damage to US foreign relations and the sheer scope of this...
View ArticleThe anti-HealthCare.gov hype-storm is much ado about normal
This week I visited the federal health insurance marketplace web site, the State of Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles site and the site of the private, national health club chain where I have a...
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