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Politics Archive
Immigrants, legal and otherwise, fuel Texas economy, job growth
Posted on August 24, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe Washington Post cites several studies indicating that immigrants, both legal and illegal, account for a good bit of the job growth in Texas. Also, they put more into the...
An Even More Modest Proposal
Posted on August 21, 2011 | 1 CommentJonathon Swift went too far in his “A Modest Proposal” (1729) when he proposed the eating of human children as a solution to Ireland’s economic woes and the plight of...
Is Rick Perry Channeling Phil Gramm – - or Clayton Williams?
Posted on August 17, 2011 | 3 CommentsYipee ki yay… Mo-fo. Rick Perry is in! He’s FED UP! and he’s come out swinging. He’s attacking Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Social Security and Medicare, anyone who is anti-business...
God(dess) Bless Rachel Maddow
Posted on August 5, 2011 | 1 CommentI watched part of “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday night as I was running on the treadmill. (Okay, okay, the treadmill is lame, I know. But at 108 degrees outside...
Real True Grit
Posted on July 24, 2011 | 2 Comments“Well, there is no beat of a good friend.” –Deputy Marshal Rooster Cogburn, in the novel, True Grit. “He is not my friend.” –Young Mattie Ross, speaking of Rooster Cogburn,...
Conservative Lies About Human Nature
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 5 CommentsSince World War II, America’s elite policy makers have arranged and re-arranged our political and economic relationships around an empirically false – radically false – understanding of human being and...
Why I’m calling it *gulp* for Michele Bachmann
Posted on June 14, 2011 | 3 CommentsYep. Monday night belonged to Michele Bachmann. Let’s be clear: If history is any indication, the Republicans are not going to nominate “a maverick” for president. The party has its...
American Winter: The Right’s War on Education and Contraception
Posted on May 30, 2011 | 1 CommentIt’s a shocking historical juxtaposition. The pro-democracy movement known as the Arab Spring is in significant part a consequence of rising literacy and declining birth rates in the Mideast. Meanwhile,...
The Right’s War on Birth Control
Posted on May 27, 2011 | 1 CommentIf you thought the legislative attacks on family planning and Planned Parenthood were all about abortion, think again. In a moment of unscripted political bravado, Republican State Representative Wayne Christian...
Obama Returns to His Moral Vision: Democrats Read Carefully
Posted on April 17, 2011 | No CommentsLast week, on April 13, 2011, President Obama gave all Democrats and all progressives a remarkable gift. Most of them barely noticed. They looked at the President’s speech as if...