Posted in Ethics and Morals in Society Know Nothing and Militant Ignorance

Library employees fired over censorship of graphic novel

McClatchy reports on a case a staff member at a library in Nicholasville, Kentucky deciding on her own to impose censorship on the library’s patrons,…

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Posted in Congressional Fail Number Nth Economy Health Care in America Letters to Congress Mediscare Social Security

Republicans Yank Themselves Back from Jaws of Victory on Ultra-Conservative Budget Bill at Last Moment

The party of fiscal and cultural insanity, the Republicans, who are more interested in totally destroying Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, any remnant of the progressive…

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Posted in Corporate Oligarchy Failure of American Journalism Income Inequality Letters to Congress

This Is What Welfare for the Rich Looks Like

For the past few years Matt Taibbi has researched and written piece after piece exploring and exposing the triumph of the oligarchic corporate plutocracy in…

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Posted in Congressional War Powers War is Peace

Afghanistan. The Remote Control and Sanitized War.

When the history books are written about the past fifty years in Afghanistan, the major competition will be between the former superpower, the Soviet Union,…

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Posted in Corporate Oligarchy Deficit Health Care in America Letters to Congress Mediscare Middle Class Death Social Security Taxes

The Republican Plan to Destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Middle Class

This post has been faxed to Representative Todd Young, IN-09; Indiana Senators Dick Lugar and Daniel Coats; The White House; House Speaker John Boehner; Senate…

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