By now, you’ve no doubt heard that, yesterday, Ron Paul’s son, Rand Paul, who just won the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky, said that he would like to live in a world where segregated lunch counters were allowed. And, I’m not exaggerating. Paul, a Libertarian purist, said that, although he detests racism, he feels that […]
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Rand Paul: lunch counter Libertarian
Posted in Civil Liberties, Observations, Politics Also tagged blockbusting, Department of Education, discrimination, Hitler, Jim Clyburn, Kentucky, Libertarianism, Newt Gingrich, Obama is a Socialist, Rachel Maddow, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, secular socialist left, segregation, Stalin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the free market will fix everything 61 Comments
Chomsky on the possibility of fascism, and the importance of financial reform
Addressing 1,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin earlier this week, well respected MIT linguist and political critic Noam Chomsky reiterated that we should not underestimate the Tea Party movement. He also warned that fascism in the United States may be a distinct possibility. The following clip comes from The Progressive: …“I’m just old enough to have […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Observations, Politics Also tagged anger, banking, banking reform, class resentment, class warfare, consumer, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Elizabeth Warren, fascism, fear, FOX News, fraud, free market, Hitler, income disparity, investment banks, Madison, MIT, Noam Chomsky, Obama, Orpheum Theatre, Roosevelt Institute, Sarah Palin, Securities and Exchange Commission, state capitalism, tax the rich, tea party, teabaggery, things we ignore at out own peril, Wisconsin 6 Comments
The face of teabagging, and the prospect of health care reform
There’s a lot I want to blog about tonight, but it’s late, and I’m just getting home. My friend Maria, a newly published author, had a book signing in Ann Arbor tonight, and then there was a going away party for my friends Tim and Andrea, who will be moving away to Seattle tomorrow afternoon. […]
Posted in Health, Other, Politics Also tagged Andrea Steves, Columbus Dispatch, compassionate conservative, Congressional Budget Office, deficit, health care reform, healthcare reform, Maria Cotera, Parkinsons, tea party, teabaggery, teabagging, Tim Furstnau, violence on the extreme right 55 Comments