Thomas Frank. Henry Wallace. Hillary Rodham Clinton.   Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school:…
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History Is Teacher; We Learn or We Perish. Near the end of 1923, an odd, self-absorbed little man was arrested and charged with sedition and treason for his part in what became known as…

Propaganda machines in all totalitarian countries habitually depict the dictator as the saviour of his people from some danger real, or more usually imaginary, and as the man of action who decides what is…

2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. It Rings True Posted 2020.09.04 As a veteran who…

2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. ICE Cops Launching Six-Week Training Camp Creating A U.S.…

2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. GOP Backing Trump's Attempted Coup Posted 2020.11.10 Sycophant and…

Trump Kills U.S. Troop Pay Raise Donald Trump likes to rant about how much he loves the military; that he knows 'military', that he is 'military'. Well, for the first time in 59 consecutive…

U.S. House overwhelmingly passes Omnibus Spending Bill which appears almost as an afterthought to include some - but little Covid relief. 'Congress only has $600 for COVID relief but they managed to cram in…

So stunned by Donald Trump's latest attack on our democracy (Trump Reportedly Floated Michael Flynn's "Martial Law" Suggestion During White House Meeting), top U.S. Army brass felt it necessary to immediately issue a joint…

Joe Hill. H.L. Mencken. Aesop.   The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to…

Former Army Lt. General, former National Security Advisor in Trump Administration, admitted criminal (guilty of twice lying to the FBI), fired by Trump, pardoned by Trump, and, good buddy of Vladimir Putin, Michael Flynn,…

Albert Einstein. George Orwell. Will Rogers.   For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and…

Ain't History Something... "In 1930, Germany is a liberal democracy. Just four years later, democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and the government is in the hands of the Nazis." See how…

Sycophant and second-in-command wannabe Bill Barr, the pretend Attorney General for The United States of America, has unleashed U.S. attorneys across the country with orders to try to find instances of voter fruad. Barr’s…

Stacey Abrams. Barbara Jordan. Martin Luther Ling Jr.   When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and…

Benjamin Franklin. Eduardo Paes. Nancy Pearcey. I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of…