President Donald Trump would trash the Bill of Rights
At a Fort Worth rally last week, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump pledged that, if elected president, he would “open up” America’s libel laws to make it easier for someone like him to sue a...
View ArticleClimate Change and Capitalism
As the Paris climate talks close next week, there will probably be little discussion of capitalism. Although it is the economic structure that got us here today, with its inherent need for endless and...
View ArticleCan Bernie Sanders capture white (socially conservative) working class voters?
On Monday, Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Liberty University, the largest Christian college in the world founded by the (in)famous Jerry Falwell back in 1971, and more or less a...
View ArticleMt. Mckinley and American imperialism
Leave it to President Obama to go ahead and spit on America’s imperialist legacy. Earlier this week, after the news broke that the Obama administration would be changing the official name of America’s...
View ArticleBill O'Reilly's Nihilist Nightmare
Whenever right wing pundits are baffled by an evolving society, they tend to use certain words to provoke their credulous viewers. If there is a tax hike on the wealthy, they scream socialism. When...
View Article4 Conservative Myths about the founding fathers
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has some explaining to do. Last week, BuzzFeed reported that the Kentucky Senator had misquoted and taken out of context multiple quotes from the founding fathers, with the most...
View ArticlePope Francis sounds like a Marxist, and so did Jesus
Pope Francis is quickly becoming a progressive hero, or if you are a conservative, he is revealing himself to be a disguised Marxist who managed to infiltrate the highest position in a traditionally...
View ArticleEric Cantor and Dick Fuld back to blame the govt for Wall Street crimes
It has been a busy past few weeks for those corporate warriors fighting the ongoing battle to gut financial regulation and set the big banks free. After Republicans proposed Dodd-Frank changes that...
View ArticleA Case for Drug Legalization
Who would have thought just one decade ago, that by 2015, nearly half of the states in America would have medical marijuana, and four states would have it completely legalized it for recreational use....
View ArticleConservatives and the "Just-world Bias"
The world is an unjust place, though many like to imagine otherwise. To a certain extent, we all try to convince ourselves that people get what they deserve, and that karma is more than just an...
View ArticleWall Street is as Crooked as ever
Last week, a new survey was released by the University of Notre Dame, in which over 1,200 financial professionals were interviewed -- and the results aren’t pretty. For the most part, it seems like...
View ArticleDarrel Issa's Mindless Comparison: America's Rich, Not Poor, are the envy of...
“America’s the richest country on Earth because we’ve been able to put capital together and we’ve been able to make our poor somewhat the envy of the world....If you go to India or you go to any number...
View ArticleAgent Provocateurs, Private Industry, and the FBI's Orwellian War on Leftwing...
What is the difference between an activist and a terrorist? To most, the answer seems pretty obvious; both have strong ideological beliefs, and are willing to fight for these beliefs, but their...
View ArticleFast Track to be Voted on Soon, and all we know about the TPP is from Wikileaks
In the coming weeks, a fight will be erupting within congress about the controversial and notoriously secretive trade deal that the Obama administration has quite adamantly supported, the...
View ArticleThe Latest Tactic in Denying Climate Change -- Call it a Religious Cult
Over the years, the climate change denying community has used different tactics to play down the threat of global warming. They have continuously brought up a 1975 Newsweek article that predicted an...
View ArticleA Neoliberal Contradiction: Singapore, Economically Free, Politicly Repressed
One of the most striking theories that the famous libertarian economist Milton Friedman put forth in his book Capitalism And Freedom was that economic freedom (a market free from government...
View ArticleYes, Climate Change is a greater threat than Terrorism (And it contributed to...
President Obama received a lot of flak from the right wing media earlier this year when he non-controversially agreed with an interviewer that the media overstates the threat of terrorism, compared to...
View ArticleLatest Wikileaks TPP Document Release Has Obama Administration on the Defensive
The White House is once again on the defensive. Last week, Wikileaks released a document from the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, which have been notoriously private and closed off to the...
View ArticleBill O'Reilly's Delusional View of the European Debt Crisis: No, The Welfare...
It is quite popular these days for American right wingers to point to Europe as a prime example of failed socialism, and declare that “welfare states” are unsustainable and inevitably lead to economic...
View ArticleGreece's Austerity Revolt
Earlier this year, the radical left-wing Syriza party won a historic election in Greece that vehemently rejected the years of mandated austerity policies and ushered in a revolt against the European...
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