How To Disarm a Wingnut and Other Tidbits
Ambrose Bierce once said, "If you leave your mind sufficiently open, sooner or later, somebody will come along and through some garbage in it."If your not familiar with local online suburban...
View ArticleMaureen Dowd Is A Total Tool
Given, that is obvious to anybody that has read her column, which thankful I don't do since we have the wonderful Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up here each day. But somehow I caught her column today....
View ArticleHow Beck rewrites U.S. history -- and how to fight back
Cross-posted at Attytood.As I prepare to cover this weekend's Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally in D.C.and for the official launch of my book The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and...
View ArticleObama, Cameron, & Sarkozy Tie the Libya Mission to Regime Change
The three leaders have penned an war-hawking op-ed that has an especially heavy dose of the kind of double-speaking horse-hockey inherent to the genre.
View ArticleWhat do the billionaires think?
In this Op-Ed in the New York Times, Warren Buffett (whose net work is around $50 billion) admitted to paying under $7 million in taxes last year (17.4% of his annual income). This percentage is lower...
View ArticleAn Appeal To The Occupy Wall Street Movement
Anyone who has read Dr. King’s “Letters From The Birmingham Jail” must be as impressed and inspired as I am by this man’s quest for dignity and honor. His eloquence and mindfulness is unsurpassed by...
View ArticlePants Ablaze
This was published as an op-ed in the February 17, 2012 edition of the Conway Daily Sun newspaper, in Conway, NH.
View ArticleMy Reply to NYPD Stop & Frisk-endorsing NYC Columnist
New York City still has a number of daily newspapers, but only one borough has a dedicated daily as far as I know. The Staten Island Advance has been publishing for 125 years, and has a rep for solid...
View ArticleFoxNews Blog: Why Democrats are abandoning Obama
Actually, the full title is "Why Democrats, including me, are abandoning Obama." And it's right over here: http://www.foxnews.com/...It appears that something has changed Rob Taub's sentiments. He...
View Article4 Must-Watch Multimedia Political Ads
Years ago I departed from the Hollywood scene to work on something called "multimedia" with my friends at Apple. This is what the dream was all about: The day that average people could use professional...
View ArticleSubmission for Op-Ed on Norquist: seeking your suggestions, criticisms, tweaks?
Today, the Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta GA) ran an Op-Ed piece that was the typical pure drivel about Republicans having to obey the Norquist Pledge, and how Boner was sticking to his guns...
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Eclectablog op-ed about Netroots Nation '14 in the Detroit News
There are two sides to this storyEarlier this month, the Detroit News printed an op-ed from an anti-union corporatist group known as the Franklin Center. This Koch brothers' funded group is nothing...
View ArticleMove Over Pat Robertson, Your Hateful Rival Is Here
Move over Pat Robertson, Ann Hornaday is muscling in on your hateful and gruesome territory of blaming disastrous events on human behavior or comedic spoofs (or, according to P.R., that which a god...
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Seattle's Rent Control Debate Rages As Bernie Sanders Visits City
(Photo by Mark Taylor-Canfield) A recent Seattle Town Hall debate became controversial when members of the audience interrupted pro-development speakers.
View ArticleFear and Loathing Refugees
The anti-Islamic fervor from politicians on social media this week sure has me feeling my white privilege. I mean, I was raised Catholic. I feel fortunate that Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee aren’t...
View ArticleThe Revolution Hasn’t Been Publicized
There is a battle waging for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party between corporate foot soldiers that keep the party funded and the progressive idealists who provide policy ideas based on the...
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The New Deal, the Dance, and the Devil
Nostalgia is the enemy of an informed electorate. I, myself, am guilty of romanticizing FDR’s New Deal as the golden age of public policy. Pardon my hubris, but I’m probably right or at least more...
View ArticleOn the Road: the Original Poll
Like a growing number of people showing interest in politics, I’ve grown distrustful of polls over the last few election cycles. Landlines are still weighted heavily, and none of the people I...
View ArticleOur Nihilist Holiday
Except for the occasional dirty looks strangers are prone to give me when I accidentally size them up wrongly and wish them “happy holidays,” when they clearly wanted to hear, “merry Christmas,” I have...
View ArticleFahrenheit 2016
Secrets seldom stay hidden, because their nature, as a form of information, is to be free, open and available to those who seek that knowledge. History shows that those who strive to censor and...
View ArticleWhere Do We Spy From Here?
The evening before Dr. King Day, Hillary Clinton called for ending encryption and allowing back doors into software and websites, less than a week after all of the GOP candidates endorsed the same;...
View ArticleAn Op-Ed Concerning North Carolina's New Law - From A Transgender Perspective
Friends and fellow Kossacks,Today I have authored an op-ed piece and submitted it for consideration for publication to the Raleigh News & Observer. I do hope they will publish it, and, if they do,...
View ArticleSanders' NYT op-ed on Brexit makes a serious mistake.
Donald Trump, political opportunist extraordinaire, has decided to try to take advantage of the same political forces that just caused the UK to leave the European Union. This should be ridiculous on...
View ArticleI Ran the C.I.A. Now I’m Endorsing Hillary Clinton.
Michael Morrell was the Deputy Director of the CIA, and served as Acting Director. His career spanned 6 Presidents, from Carter and Reagan to Obama, 3 of each party. In this op ed in todays’ New York...
View ArticleThe Real Foundations of Moral Obligation - MRFF Advisory Board Member Col....
"GUEST OP-ED FROM MY DEAR FRIEND COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON (RET.), MILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION (MRFF) ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER, AND FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL'S CHIEF OF STAFF" - MIKEY...
View Article"The Myth of Main Street" Myth: Globalism Fueled the Right
I try to steer clear of The New York Times’ Op-Ed stuff these days — mostly just fluff and hung-over columnists spouting off the jokes that made people in NYC’s elite bars laugh the night before — but...
View ArticleDespite Loss, Ossoff Campaign Shows a Path Forward to Democratic Wins in...
While Jon Ossoff’s loss will certainly disappoint Democrats who thought they did everything they possibly could to flip a Congressional seat, his campaign proves that grassroots organizing can move the...
View ArticleRecent New York Times bombshell quietly reveals Trump Campaign plot to...
All the focus is now shifted to the revelation that it was George Papadopoulos, not Christopher Steele’s CX reports, who triggered the FBI investigation into Trump/Russia collusion. But there was a...
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Martin London Time Op-Ed, Congress Should Impeach President Trump if He...
The president has a love hate affair with the media, especially the print media, but he is still a big fan of Time Magazine — and TIme has featured Mr. Trump on their cover more than 15 times since he...
View ArticleUncle of Trump Aide Stephen Miller blasts him on Immigration—‘Our family...
If there is one Op-Ed you read today, let it be this one. It’s so powerful and real.David S. Glosser is the uncle of Stephen Miller. Glosser exposes and repudiates the immigration policies his nephew...
View ArticleCrap...
While I thought it was John Kelly for while, and that may still be true, an s-word of a thought popped into my head. With the op-ed, when you really, really think about it, while potentially giving...
View ArticleMRFF Client, USAF Veteran on Christian Privileged POW/MIA Bible Display at...
[Op-ed by Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) Guest Columnist Sandra Bell] — As a former USAF Airman Intelligence Analyst and ex-practicing Christian, who was baptized as recently as 2010, I...
View ArticleE KY editorial scorches Trump
This is an editorial from a newspaper in Eastern Kentucky, the Beattyville Enterprise. The writer is Douglas Moore.www.nolangroupmedia.com/… I think it’s of interest to you just because of the...
View ArticleA Reply to a Petition
This was just now, in response to a petition (americansfortaxfairness.org) that I just now replied to.These petitions, if you're writing to your Representative and/or Senators, all usually include some...
View ArticleTeacher’s viral essay shows how Trump’s COVID-19 failures are turning...
As thousands continue to be affected by the novel coronavirus in the U.S., the Trump administration still lags behind in its response. According to data compiled byThe New York Times, more than 4...
View ArticleAmerican exceptionalism/exceptionally stupid
American exceptionalism/exceptionally stupidAmerican exceptionalism is a saying and a term propagated over the decades with pride and bull headedness. Unfortunately for America that ship has long ago...
View ArticleThe fight to Defund the Police didn’t end with the 2020 election
by Indianna TaylorThis story was originally published at Prism.Last year the call to create change by defunding the police could be heard from all over. It was meant as a step forward to re-envision...
View ArticlePregnancy is no temporary burden
by Ashton LattimoreThis article was originally published at Prism Pregnancy is right up there with aging on the list of human experiences that will permanently change a person’s body. Scars and...
View ArticleKeeping Rikers open fuels a humanitarian crisis that must stop
by Reina SultanThis article was originally published at PrismOn Jan. 8, about 200 people incarcerated at Rikers Island began a hunger strike to protest the abysmal conditions at the jail. This is the...
View ArticleEric Adams is the latest Democrat to choose increased policing over real safety
by Reina SultanThis article was originally published at PrismEric Adams began his tenure as New York City’s mayor making explicitly pro-policing and -incarceration promises, with a so-called...
View ArticleUnlimited paid time off is a disability justice issue that needs to be taken...
by K AgbebiyiThis article was originally published at PrismPeople with chronic pain know that familiar feeling of dread that happens during a period of particularly heightened pain, typically referred...
View ArticleEnvisioning systems where families are supported, not policed
by Cynthia GutierrezThis article was originally published at PrismThe 2020 uprisings against police brutality and state-sanctioned violence pushed more people to recognize how police forces...
View ArticleBook bans are the result of white fear of a changing world
by George M. JohnsonThis article was originally published at Prism.Across the country, the recent uptick in the banning of books written by marginalized people, especially Black queer authors, has...
View ArticleFor Muslims, the fight for an abolitionist future is necessary for survival
by Mommina TararThis article was originally published at PrismYusuf Kadhafi Al Basir Mu’min had been incarcerated in Garner Correctional Institution for 15 years when he was released last December....
View ArticleICE prison in South Georgia should be shut down, not expanded
by Meredyth L. Yoon and Azadeh ShahshahaniThis article was originally published at Prism.Neal, a Jamaican citizen who owned and operated a yacht servicing company for 25 years in South Florida, has...
View ArticleA resurging union movement must reckon with anti-Blackness
Black workers have always been part of the labor movement, but unions must prioritize anti-racist practices and make room for Black leadership.By Brenton ZolaThis article was originally published at...
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Opinion: NYT Op-Ed Wrongly Says Small-Dollar Political Donations Are the Real...
Thomas B. Edsall, an American journalist and academic, wrote an outlandish opinion piece in the New York Times that claims small-dollar donations to political candidates are the real problem, not big...
View ArticleThe Common Good, Today
This article from The Daily Montanan is republished under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 It is asking a very worthwhile question about the balance of individual and public good, and what...
View ArticleWe are national health leaders. We can’t risk a Trump presidency.
I would appreciate your reposting this OpEd which we published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Wednesday. The article is offered by 20 retired Assistant Surgeons General who expressed deep...
View ArticleBernie calls out Oligarchy in Fox News op-ed. More evidence of for-profit...
It's not just the billionaire ownership and control over the economy and the media that should concern us. The uber-rich are also buying our government and undermining American democracy. Yes,...
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