"Words that make actions speak louder."
Make no mistake: When the conservatives set out to take over America 30 years ago, they were working off of a well-thought-out plan. The plan was put in place by a wide variety of thinkers—but three of the main strategists were Howard Phillips, Richard Viguerie, and Paul Weyrich, each of whom wrote important books and […]
“Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” — John F. Kennedy There’s one thing for sure: 2008 isn’t anything like politics as usual. The corporate media (with their unerring eye for the obvious point) is fixated on the narrative that, for the first time ever, Americans will likely end this year with […]
In the previous post, I looked at ten of the most common myths that get bandied about whenever Americans drag Canada into their ongoing discussions about healthcare. In this follow-up, I’d like to address a few of the larger assumptions that Americans make about health care that are contradicted by the Canadian example; and in […]
2008 is shaping up to be the election year that we finally get to have the Great American Healthcare Debate again. Harry and Louise are back with a vengeance. Conservatives are rumbling around the talk show circuit bellowing about the socialist threat to the (literal) American body politic. And, as usual, Canada is once again […]
2008 is shaping up to be the election year that we finally get to have the Great American Healthcare Debate again. Harry and Louise are back with a vengeance. Conservatives are rumbling around the talk show circuit bellowing about the socialist threat to the (literal) American body politic. And, as usual, Canada is once again […]
In one of the comments threads that discussed last week’s first Stealing Our Future post, an astute commenter named Ohio Mom did a telling bit of class analysis: I was reminded of the aphorism that the wealthy look to the past and the legacy they’ve inherited (“our family came over on the Mayflower”), the poor […]
Brad DeLong once said that “‘Nobody could have foreseen ______’ is the Bush administration’s version of ‘The dog ate my homework.’” It does seem to be their handy-dandy Swiss Army Knife, all-purpose explanation for the various disasters that have happened on their watch. We first heard this excuse all the way back in May 2002, […]