Who is the biggest weasel amongst the newly elected politicians? Andrew Cuomo, the new governor of New York, always does well in weasel ratings. Richard Blumenthal, who lied all over Connecticut to make people think he had actually fought in the Vietnam war, is CONN’s new U.S. Senator. What other newcomers deserve weasel accolades? Unfortunately, […]
Tag Archives | Attention Deficit Democracy
Redundant????
from a photo posted on the Washington Post page for photos from the Jon Stewart rally on Saturday – photo by “consistentflatcher”
Demolition Derby Democracy, Crash #4283
The real irony is that people expect from progress from elections. (cartoon by Tom Toles, Washington Post)
De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty
from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (July issue) – posted online today – De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty by James Bovard In the 1770s, the British colonists living in America won their freedom from British rule thanks to the
Exposed: The Federal Reserve’s Toxic Waste
from the new issue of The New Yorker
A Tea Party Bright Side: Making the Fed Sweat
It’s great that the Tea Party is making the Federal Reserve sweat…. The New York Times has a piece detailing how, thanks to Tea Party activists, one “likely outcome” of the November elections “is greater scrutiny of the Fed, even though the Wall Street regulatory overhaul that Mr. Obama signed in July already calls for […]
MP3 of my “Police State USA” interview with Antiwar’s Scott Horton
Scott Horton and I had a zippety time thumping the usual suspects here. (Antiwar.com Radio) The Bush and Obama administrations both took a hiding.
