From the monthly archives: August 2012

Found! Romney Letter to Penthouse!

By Spocko On August 29, 2012  

Dear Penthouse.

I never thought I’d be writing Penthouse, but I had an experience that I’d like to share with your readers. I was walking by a “sit in” on the Stanford campus during the summer of love when I noticed a skinny blonde “hippie chick” protesting the war. She was gorgeous and I could [...]

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Republicans Again Use Race, And It’s OUR Fault That It Still Works

By Dave Johnson On August 28, 2012  

Since forever, the Republican message is STILL “Dems take your money and give it to black people.” Doesn’t change. Doesn’t have to. It’s OUR fault.

Since Forever

I am not young. I remember when Nixon campaigned with his racially divisive “Southern Strategy.” Nixon campaigned on “crime” – fear of black people – and on the [...]

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U.S. Justice: Is The Joke On You?

By Tom Sullivan On August 10, 2012  

Here’s a neat get-out-of-jail trick. The secret is it doesn’t usually work for ordinary crimes by flesh-and-blood people — for smoking marijuana or selling food stamps for rent money, for example. No, those people we warehouse in taxpayer-funded Corrections Corporation of America for-profit prisons. This trick works best for those who have turned [...]

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What Is The Calculation Behind Romney’s Campaign Of Lies?

By Dave Johnson On August 8, 2012  

The Romney campaign has turned to a strategy of swamping the public with flat-out, blatant lies, one after another, again and again, endlessly and lavishly repeated. They do this because they are making a calculation that it will work! So what is going on? And can democracy survive this assault?

The Growing List Of [...]

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A Radical Idea for Radical Times

By Tom Sullivan On August 2, 2012  

“Mail is like oxygen. It’s there and you count on it, and you don’t get worried about it until it disappears. There is going to be concern by a lot of people if this goes away. The national concern is going to be enormous.” — Tonda Rush, president of the National Newspaper Association, [...]

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Lack of Access to Abortion Threatens the Integrity of the Family

By Russ Wellen On August 1, 2012  

Cross-posted from Scholars and Rogues.

This author is as dismayed by the pro-life* position as the next progressive. Nor can a middle-ground between pro-life and pro-choice be readily imagined. But, pro-choice advocates do themselves a disservice by denying or dodging the element of extinguishment that, however blown out of proportion by pro-lifers, is [...]

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