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• Excessive Corporate Intrusion Is a Major Factor in Maximizing Inequality

  When FDR and LBJ passed laws which maximized equality by providing protections such as Social Security, the right to unionize, and medicare, corporations only... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Neoliberal, Free Market Fundamentalist, Ideology of The 1971 Powell Memo...

  

  Decades later, Lewis Powell codified Vice President Wallace’s “method” in The Powell Memo of 1971. The result was a proliferation of conservative think tanks... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Right-wing Authoritarian Neoliberal Ideology Has Prevented Universal Health...

  Economic neoliberalism, or free market fundamentalism, has been at work for decades in America transferring more and more wealth from the masses to the ONE%.... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Edward Snowden Exposed Our Authoritarian – Dual – State

  The following are excerpts are from a recent article by Chris Hedges: Snowden, we are told, could have reformed from the inside. He could have gone to his... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Success of 50 Years Of Fighting to End Poverty Minimized by 30 Years of...

  

  … social change is happening and growing inequality is the great enabler. Relative to Bill Moyer’s 8 stages of successful social change and postings in Popular... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Maximizing Profit Morfs The Fourth Estate Into Stooge for Hire.

  For some time, I have been promoting the use of profit-free media for news. There is a long list of such sources in the sidebar of this blog which I update... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Contested Concepts – The “O” Word

  The following quote is from a blog posting by Marc Farinella : “Two final points from Lakoff; here’s the first: Don’t be fooled by contested concepts,which are... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• We Are All Born Equal — Just Not With Equal Opportunity

  Progressives claiming that right-wing authoritarians are irrational is like right-wing authoritarians claiming minorities are mentally inferior to whites. They... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Do The ONE% Keep Getting Richer?

  

  An updated report on growing income inequality between America’s profit makers and profit takers shows the growth of income for the profit takers – the top ONE%... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Unions Must Join The Fight Against Climate Disruption

  Demand freedom from Climate disruption – increased weather extremes and human costs resulting from significant, unseen, and rampant releases of greenhouse... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Who’s in Control and Who Helped Put Them There?

  John Dean referred to them as Conservatives Without Conscience in his 2007 book by that title. (There was no Tea Party in 2007. Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s Two Party System – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

  First of all, a short summary of The Lucifer Effect. It explains how events like Mi Lai, Abu Ghraib, and The Stanford Prison Experiment turned good people... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate ‘Takers’ of America

  As states give to and take from national citizenship dues coffers, some get back more than they give, and Red states are the biggest net takers. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• ALEC Was Inspired by The Powel Memo of 1971 – Corporations Taking Control of...

  Depending on your media sources, you may have seen the news about the 40 year anniversary of ALEC – American Legislative Exchange Council. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate Servitude IS Replacing Equal Protection and Empowerment by the...

  Listening to a right-wing caller on the Thom Hartmann show recently, reminded me of a key element from the right-wing authoritarian message machine. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What’s Really Best for an ‘Unwanted’?

  “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Shelby County v Holder Ruling – Keeping Texas Red

  Here’s another message I’ve sent to the Supreme Court: On behalf of the Texas Republican Party, thank you. With our contested voter ID law and formerly illegal... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Supporters of DOMA, Prop 8, and Texas Special Session SB 5 – How Their...

  While driving home from lunch today and listening to the discussion on NPR’s ‘Talk of the Nation’, the strong unreasonable comments of a caller disturbed me. Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is a Sense of Security for a Minor Threat Worth the Loss of Liberty – a Real...

  The government not only has PRISM, but there is also NUCLEON, MAINWAY and MARINA. The first two collect content from the internet and phone calls. The other... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Media Gives Free Reign to Gut Feel While The Nation’s Needs Are Ignored

  Right-wing authoritarians (RWA) – those blocking progress in both houses of our Congress and conniving with ALEC to write oppressive state laws – are not only... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY