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by davidswanson
August 27, 2011 - 9:16am
"Shrinking government" in American political discourse has, for decades now, meant the following. We enlarge the government's budget through taxation and penalties on working people and through borrowing and printing money. We not only tax the …more
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by Max R.
September 6, 2010 - 2:10pm
Jeet Heer writes in a guest column for The Globe and Mail:
As hard-core libertarians who oppose most government social policy, the brothers Koch have given tens of millions of dollars over the years to right-wing think tanks and political-action …more
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by Max R.
September 3, 2010 - 1:24pm
Roger Ebert writes:This process may soon be arriving at a moment of truth. The new issue of Vanity Fair mentions in its profile of Sarah Palin, as a casual aside, that Glenn Beck has booked the Dena'ina Center, the largest venue in Anchorage, for …more
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by Max R.
September 1, 2010 - 10:49pm
Michael Winship writes:Watching Glenn Beck's performance Saturday at his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, DC, I thought of the novelist Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry, the charlatan evangelist who seduces most of those around him with his hearty …more
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by Max R.
August 31, 2010 - 2:05pm
Robert Jensen writes:About halfway through Saturday’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the DC mall, I realized that I was starting to like Glenn Beck.Let me explain. It’s not that I really liked Beck, but more that I experienced his likeability. Whether …more
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by Max R.
August 29, 2010 - 2:29pm
The Kochs have the Tea Party on their string. It's always been amusingly ironic to me when the rightwing rank-and-file call others "sheeple." Once again, this irony is made plain as day. As Frank Rich writes in "The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea …more
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Dear Representative,
In January 2010, five Republicans on the Supreme Court gave foreign corporations a Constitutional right to buy Congress and our next President.
If foreign corporations want to buy our elections publicly, they can simply create U …more
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Dear FOX News Advertiser,
I am writing to inform you that I will not purchase your products as long as you advertise on FOX News.
FOX News does not broadcast news, it broadcasts rightwing smears, hatred, and incitement to violence - including …more
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