How Polling Places Can Affect Your Vote
Thursday 19 August 2010
by: Tom Jacobs  |  Miller-McCune
From: TruthOut.com

Researchers argue the physical location of the polls not only affects how many people vote; it may also influence last-minute decisions regarding which box to mark or lever to pull.
Political pundits seldom pause to ponder polling places. Unless the lines in [...]

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Unjust Spoils
Robert Reich | June 30, 2010
Wall Street’s banditry was the proximate cause of the Great Recession, not its underlying cause. Even if the Street is better controlled in the future (and I have my doubts), the structural reason for the Great Recession still haunts America. That [...]

Some good reading to help you understand how corrupt and insidious corporate control of your life, your money, your environment, your food, and your medications has become can be found in two books.  Both books have been criticized, but of course they would be.  Even your news is owned by the corporations, if you don’t [...]

Republicans and the Tea Party of No
Monday 17 May 2010
TruthOut
by: Arun Gupta, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
As much as they may grumble, there is a legitimate reason why the Republicans have been labeled the “Party of No.” For decades, the party’s kneejerk stance has been to [...]

The Great Consolidation
By ROSS DOUTHAT
New York Times
Op-Ed Columnit
May 17, 2010
This feels like a populist moment. Americans are Tea Partying. Greeks are rioting. Incumbents are being thrown out; the Federal Reserve is facing an audit; Goldman Sachs is facing prosecution. In Kentucky, Ron Paul’s son might be about to win a Republican Senate [...]

April 18, 2010
New York Times

Op-Ed Columnist
Welcome to Confederate History Month
By FRANK RICH
It’s kind of like that legendary stunt on the prime-time soap “Dallas,” where we learned that nothing bad had really happened because the previous season’s episodes were all a dream. We now know that the wave of anger that crashed on [...]

Rage on the Right

The Year in Hate and Extremism

By Mark Potok
Southern Poverty Law Center

The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation.
Hate groups stayed at record levels — almost [...]

March 27, 2010
New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist
Whose Country Is It?
By CHARLES M. BLOW
The far-right extremists have gone into conniptions.
The bullying, threats, and acts of violence following the passage of health care reform have been shocking, but they’re only the most recent manifestations of an increasing sense of desperation.
It’s an extension of a now-familiar theme: [...]

The Unbearable Lightness of Reform
Saturday 27 March 2010

by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

That wickedly satirical Ambrose Bierce described politics as “the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Bierce vanished to Mexico nearly a hundred years ago - to the relief [...]

March 23, 2010
New York Times

Editorial Notebook
Two Rallies
By LAWRENCE DOWNES
A few hundred Tea Party-types clustered on the south end of the Capitol on Sunday, trying to kill health care reform, fouling the crisp spring air with shouts of violence and loathing.
Instead of pitchforks, they hoisted revolting signs. Some showed Barack Obama as a [...]