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Sunday, April 29th, 2012When the Reagan Revolution started dismantling the New Deal, it prioritized laws and regulations designed to protect workers and their income. Human history teachers that it’s easy to make a few people wealthy. It’s much harder to build a middle class society. Liberals did just that after WWII. Now the Middle Class is being crushed […]
Debt Society Brought to you by Reagan Revolution
Monday, March 12th, 2012If you want to see the debt society created by conservatives, here is your graph. When liberals ran they country, they placed a social premium on upward mobility–the opportunity for the poor and working class to climb to the top. Conservatives bashed colleges as the place for sex, drugs and rock and roll. The costs […]
Father America
Friday, March 2nd, 2012Ed Kilgore provides a pretty good summation of modern conservatism. It’s not really a “freedom agenda” unless you are a “daddy.” If you’re a “father,” then you’re free to tell others how to live their private lives. If you’re not lucky enough to be a “father,” then you should be seen and not heard. If […]
Santorum Embraces Meism
Sunday, February 19th, 2012Few believe when I say that the very idea of a “public” is under assault by today’s conservatives. When most people call themselves conservative, I don’t think this nonsense comes to mind.  “Yes the government can help,†Mr. Santorum added. “But the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that […]
Liberalism, Conservatism and the Future
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012At the end of the 19th century, Populist farmers pushed for the Federal government to rein in the abusive practices of banks and railroads. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Progressive movement actually convinced the Federal government to break up monopolies and protect consumers from unsafe food and drugs. During the Depression, FDR […]
Conservatism, Obama and Race
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012Is anti-Obama hatred driven by racism. Nope. Flashback to 1999. Every American has every right to fear President Clinton and his extreme leftist views, as he has proven that his beliefs lie in the direction of the Far-Left. However, if Bill Clinton were strictly and only just a Marxist, America would be under the heel […]
How to tell Conservatives are lying about the housing bubble.
Saturday, January 28th, 2012I modified Mark Zandi’s chartto add what would have happened if conservatives were right about the causes of the housing bubble. Frannie’s and Freddie’s market share would have gone up, while private firms’ share would have gone down.   Blaming FF is not only dishonest, but it prevents us from stopping future scams. If conservatives succeed […]
The Rise of the DestructoCons (Part II of Reagan’s Big Lie)
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011There is a traditional German saying that warns the foolish not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. A wise person realizes the value of preservation and change. Since the French Revolutionaries first took their seats in the National Assembly, politicians have divided themselves along this axis. One party favored preservation, while the other […]
Perry Should Just Abandon Code Words
Saturday, November 19th, 2011“It reveals to me that he grew up in a privileged way,†he said. “He never had to really work for anything.” Come on Mr. Perry. Just get it done. Call President Obama the N-word and say he is the product of that easy welfare life. Just say it. Just say that as a black […]
Getting to 50.1%
Saturday, November 19th, 2011A friend posed the following question. “Shaking off the horserace mentality for the moment: does anyone know how the GOP candidate policy positions poll, versus the Obama record & likely campaign platform? Put simply, are these people speaking to the 51%? Here is how it see it. These candidates are like the local activist who […]
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