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Texas Green Party and the GOP: In Bed to Keep Texas Red
Posted on July 7, 2010 | 2 CommentsWhy would Texas Green Party leaders make a deal with Republican Gov. Rick Perry to help beat Democrats? Perry and other GOP allies of the Greens are their bitter enemies... -
Republicans’ Tea Baggage: Texas Tea Party Candidates?
Posted on December 18, 2009 | 1 CommentWe continue to hear rumblings about the creation of a Texas Tea Party to compete with Republicans and Democrats. If the teabaggers were more than insignificant shills for Rick Perry,... -
Before the Mountains: Sotomayor and Sitting Bull in America
Posted on June 7, 2009 | 1 CommentFor your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty, Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Your own lips testify against you. Are you... -
American Aparthood
Posted on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear.” Alan Paton Aparthood. It is the American translation of the South African, Afrikaaner apartheid. It... -
Character Versus Brand: A Lesson in Framing
Posted on May 24, 2009 | No CommentsAdvertising and marketing gurus have so successfully established the importance of “brand” that we in the political sphere often lose sight of the real core of political argument: character. The... -
Little Words Mean Life or Death: Framing Health Care
Posted on May 10, 2009 | No Comments“Little words can mean death or life to someone.” -Electra, in Sophocles’ tragedy, Electra. People die who could be saved. People suffer who could recover. Those are the consequences of... -
Unstuck in time, or Castro! Negroes! Duck and Cover!
Posted on May 3, 2009 | No CommentsIn October, 1962, Mrs. Goode’s third grade class at Houston’s Longfellow Elementary School filed out of its classroom in “the shacks,” temporary wooden structures used to relieve overcrowding. We were... -
Secession and Racism
Posted on April 19, 2009 | 1 CommentAnd now, just after the inauguration of America’s first black president, comes loud talk of secession and nullification. What a coincidence. It seems like only yesterday that right-wingers were condemning... -
The Ultimate Wedge Issue in a Democracy
Posted on March 8, 2009 | No CommentsHere is an honest and easy-to-understand statement of a Republican belief that lies behind their efforts to place burdensome and bureaucratic barriers between citizens and the ballot box: -
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Posted on January 18, 2009 | No CommentsAs Barack Obama spoke of hope in a Wilmington park named for Harriet Tubman and abolitionist Thomas Garrett, just north of the Mason-Dixon line, some Republicans were still setting loose...