I would like to pose the following question: What the fuck is libertarianism?
I will propose the premise that to be a legitimate political school of thought requires both a guiding ideology and a basis for implementing that ideology through policy. For example, as a first order approximation, I would say that modern progressivism is based [...]
We have them. Republicans are clearly aware of this, as noted by the oft-cited second and tenths such item. (Well, half the of the second, anyway.) There’s also this:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they [...]
I’ve been hoping for quite some time now that the end result of the extremism of the tea party movement would be a schism in the Republican party, and eventually a more moderate, legitimately fiscal conservative group taking the reigns. The time scale for shifts in party ideology are obviously quite large, but if reports [...]
From Wikipedia, quoting American historian Robert Paxton’s latest book, Anatomy of Fascism (emphases mine):
…a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, [...]
Sanford in 2012? He could run on a platform of experience in foreign relations.
Seriously. Does anyone else not give two shits that Sonia Sotomayor is latino? She’s a judge. She judges things. She seems to be pretty damn good at it.
It was bad enough when Obama was running, and everyone was wondering if he was “too black”, or “not black enough.” You know [...]
I’ve seen more people at protests against the Church of Scientology that at these tea bagging parties.
Obama should have given last night’s talk as a PowerPoint presentation.
I am thoroughly convinced that politicians, as a whole, don’t know jack about finance: Congress is actually considering a 0.25% tax on equity trades. I’d like to repeat that. They would like to levy a tax on all stock, option, and futures trades, of one quarter percent. Apparently they want to drive away all the [...]
President Obama (I love saying that) has signed an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detainment facility within one year. Poor Mitt. He must be beside himself. Also, I guess we’ll never really know what a “Double Guantanamo” really is. Too bad… doesn’t it sound delicious?