Political Pass

A Martian is asked who the better candidate for America would be in 2008. The Martian, we’ll call X, is quite smart and seeks first to understand the ‘values’ and ‘visions’ that underlie the American democratic republic.
Since each candidate’s platform and issues are outlined and fundamentally controlled by the party platform, X reviews both […]

This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim Wise
“For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that […]

You Cannot be Serious
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“…Ms Palin is a symbol of deep American introversion, of the fact that you have ceased to take yourselves seriously and, more important, don’t much care who knows it. Arguments over the relationship between the wider world and your choices have become irrelevant. You have detached yourself, finally, from the global […]

Clean up Washington, put America first, work for Americans, wow, did Joe and John create a new political party! Did he actually address this to the republican national convention or was I dreaming? Maybe he missed it but they are the ones since Reagan who have helped create this mess.
There was so much irony, so […]

I found the McCain’s selection for VP an affront to a nation that prides itself on progress. Why? It was made simply to pacify and solidify the far right wing and not because it was a good choice for the country. This type of selection is always subjective but why select a person with so […]

Is Sarah Palin John McCain’s Harriet Myers? What a curious choice, a nice woman, a soccer mom, governor of a state that is smaller than medium sized cities in terms of government, and a person who has no experience in national or international politics? The right went after Bush over Myers, they will not be […]

It’s hard to say what motivates a person like Corsi? Is it just money, is it as Eric Hoffer suggests, those who hate passionately lead empty lives? Did he hate his father’s work so he turned against the world? Conspiratorial mentalities, such as Corsi are a psychological mystery that demonstrates a lack of grounding in […]

Commodity prices are rising: food, heating, and transportation costs affect all Americans and have global impact. Energy cost is considered by most the major cause, so in a effort to resolve these issues with a single policy and process, ‘Plowing’ is the answer. Plowing will render off shore drilling unnecessary. Plowing will allow us to […]

I am amazed today in the way culture has turned inward to the self. I think some of it has to do with the way children have been raised in an affluent society. All things become about them. When I talk to conservative (I hardly see any leftist kids today) college kids who were born […]

What to read this Election Season
If you read just one book read ‘Deer Hunting with Jesus’ by Joe Bageant, doesn’t matter if you are left right republican democrat or independent, the story its tells is both funny and sad but real. Working class America has its chronicler.
‘The Big Con’ by Jonathan Chait explores the […]