Tag Archives: Lee Atwater

Maybe Donald Trump isn’t Hitler, but I think he’s got potential

By Mark | March 8, 2016

[The above public art piece showed up in Atlanta this past December, shortly after Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”] For the most part, I try not to suggest that anyone – even those whom I truly despise – are, “like Hitler.” As tempting as it might […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Atlanta, authoritarianism, Donald Trump, fascism, fear, Free Speech, genocide, Hitler, illegal immigration, Louis C.K., Make America Great Again, Mississippi, Neshoba County Fair, Philadelphia, racism, reality television, Ronald Reagan, scapegoats, southern strategy, Ted McClelland, threats to Democracy, uncertainty | 14 Comments

The chickens, having come home to roost, consumed Boehner… Nixon made a deal with the devil by opening the Republican party to southern racists, and, now, almost 50 years later, the party is paying the price

By Mark | October 18, 2015

Quite a bit has been written over the past few weeks about John Boneher’s unexpected decision to step down as Speaker of the House and leave Congress. While everyone seems to be in agreement that his decision is largely due to the increasingly ugly battle being waged over the heart and soul of the Republican […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged angry Republicans and their ideas, Civil Rights Act, John Boehner, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, racism, Republicans, segregation, the collapse of the Republican party, The Nation, the southern strategy | 5 Comments

Reverend Dr. William Barber II on reclaiming the moral high ground and building a majority coalition around issues of social justice

By Mark | September 2, 2014

Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, History | Also tagged abortion, affirmative action, assassination, Barack Obama, Brown v. Board of Education, busing, Charles Koch, Charlotte, Christianity, civil disobedience, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil War, Committee on Equal Employment, economic justice, Emmett Till, entitlements, family values, Forward Together Moral Movement, George Wallace, guns, health care, higher ground, homosexuality, JFK, Jim Crow, Kevin Phillips, Koch brothers, labor, LBJ, Medgar Evers, Medicaid, Medicare, MLK, moral fusion, Moral Monday, morality, Netroots Nation, North Carolina, Otto Scharmer, Plessy v. Ferguson, political strategy, populism, poverty, prayer in the school, progressive politics, public education, race and poverty, race card, racism, reconstruction, Redemption Movement, religion, religious right, RFK, Richard Nixon, Rosa Parks, snake line, social justice, Southern Coalition Leadership Conference, southern strategy, states rights, tea party, voter suppression, voting rights, William Barber | 18 Comments

How my site was taken down in a web-washing attempt by false “hate crime” victim Justin Zatkoff

By Mark | November 11, 2012

I apologize for the interruption in service yesterday, but my site was taken down without my consent, at the request of a man by the name of Justin Zatkoff. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because I wrote about Justin back in 2006, when he was severely beaten in Ann Arbor. The story went viral […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Rants, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged affirmative action, Alexis Ford, Ann Schneider, ArborWiki, BAMN, black eyes, Bloomfield Hills, broken eye sockets, College Republicans, copyright, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, discrimination, DMCA, Don Carlson, entrapment, fair housing, Fred Upton, gay agenda, gay demonization, getting beaten up, hate crime, hypocrisy, immigrant rights, Justin Zatkoff, Karl Rove, law school, Lawrence Paul Zatkoff, liberal thugs, lies, lying college students, lying to the police, Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, nepotism, Republican lies, Republican National Committee, Rick Snyder, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Saul Anuzis, Streisand effect, the gay, The Truth Causus, University of Detroit Mercy, Victory '08, web-wash | 65 Comments

Would the Republican leaders of yesteryear have engaged in birtherism?

By Mark | August 28, 2012

I find myself, for some reason I don’t quite understand, watching grainy, old footage of William F. Buckley this evening, instead of doing something that I might actually enjoy, like reading the motivational affirmations of Old Spice pitchman and rising action star Terry Crews. I think, subconsciously, the seed was planted earlier today, when I […]