Andy96

LATEST ARTICLES ( 200 )

• Rick Perry – Future Commnader-in-Chief?

  In my previous post, I stated: Domestic terrorism from the evangelical, government-is-evil, right-wing authoritarians (RWA) could start a second American Civil... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Arab Spring and America’s Winter – Where the Authoritarians Are Taking Us, I...

  In several Arab countries, citizens have been demonstrating and demanding their authoritarian governments be replaced with a democratic form of government. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is Your Fair Share of American Citizenship Dues and Why Should You Pay?

  In my previous article, I pointed out how significant revenue helped to not only reduce our massive WWII debt, but also created jobs through building national... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• We Have A REVENUE Problem – Just Look at Our History

  At the end of WWII, our national debt was almost 120 percent of our GDP, higher than today. For the 35 years after the war, we not only paid for significant... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Where Are the Authoritarians Taking America – Same Place as Texas, SC, WI?

  Will the country default by not raising the debt limit? The consensus, which is growing but does not include the political ‘adolescents’ in the Tea Party, is no... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• War on Deficit/Debt – Sharing the Pain

  If we are going to be forced to deal with the deficit/debt and ignore the economy and jobs, then getting the deficit/debt under control must be shared by all.... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Authoritarian Plan to End American Democracy – The Powell Memo

  While reading Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism by Henry Giroux, I learned about another element of America’s growing... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The “Empathy Deficit” and the Growth of American Authoritarianism

  The following is a letter I sent to President Obama via their contact page at the White House. In 2006, you spoke about the “empathy deficit.” You said, “There’... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Authoritarians – The Hyper Dead, Still Alive as Avatars of Death and Cruelty?

  Listed below is a portion of the introduction for Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism by Dr. Henry A. Giroux. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Senator and Congressman Paul Favor Corporate Freedom of Choice Over Citizen...

  Sometimes, when either Libertarian Ron or Rand Paul are questioned on particular situations that driven by their general politics beliefs, they contradict... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republican Senators – Shameless, Spineless, Or Without Conscience?

  RE: Most Republican Senators voted yesterday to pass the Paul Ryan Budget Plan for the wealthy. Tonight, I sent the following note to Texas Senator Cornyn, who... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Newt Gingrich – President of the United States?

  Newt Gingrich is the Ayman al-Zawahiri of the Republican Party. Both Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What’s It Take to Win in 2012? More About ‘We’

  It will take winning back the swing/independent/biconceptual/dual voters. They were influenced by the empathetic progressive messages in 2008 and by the... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Congressman Ryan’s Wealth Transfer (Budget) Plan

  There are two parts to the Ryan budget plan: 1.) eliminate the costs of our safety net for those citizens not like Ryan and his fellow conservatives without... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Imagine – Republicans Force a ‘Strike’ and Take The Entire Federal Government...

  It appears to me, that even though the conservatives without conscience (CWCs) cannot support unions, especially public ones, they do support taking union type... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Federal Income Taxes – Is Tax Foundation Impartial?

  According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “CBO data for 2007 (the most recent year available) suggest that 80 percent of U.S. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Wealth Transfer – America’s Growing Plutocracy

  While reading through a 1967 college text on Today’s ISMs by William Ebenstein, I came across this statement on wealth distribution in America as of 1953: …... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Fear Mongering Over Debt and Deficits – It’s Happened Before, Why Then, Why Now?

  Why are we, as a nation, no longer expressing concern about the employment deficit? Because the media and the politicians are all fear mongering about deficit... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Social Dominance Authoritarians – Rule By Fearful Fantasies

  In 2006, John Dean wrote this about neoconservatives in his book Conservatives Without Conscience: Neoconservatives are a relatively small group of social... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Violence Against Americans by Americans – Individual Action Is Only Part of the...

  Individual actions result from the influences of many factors. This is referred to as “systemic causation.” Some factors are genetic but many are external:... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY