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Notable Quotable
"All we have to do is replace
Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need
a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what
direction to go. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We
don't need someone to think it up or design it. ... Pick a
Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen..."
Grover Norquist, extremist
GOP leader on Romney, the kind of candidate the Hard Right wants in
the White House
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Bernard Weiner:
NEW:
A Modest Proposal: Bring Back the Inquisition!
Our society is in desperate shape. Wimpy liberalism can't really
solve the various problems. It's time for something more
muscular, more robust, more (how shall we say?) medieval in its
effectiveness.
REPRISE:
WTF?: A Letter to Appalled and Puzzled European
Friends. This
piece, written just prior to the 2010 election, lays out the
history of the extreme rightwing resurgence in the U.S., and
what the Left needs to do to get back in the fight. (First
published Oct. 20, 2010)
Ernest Partridge
The Big Lie. Is
there any limit to the outrageousness of the GOP lies? Is
there any limit to the capacity of a large number of our
fellow citizens to accept these lies? This is, after all, a
public almost half of which refuses to accept evolution –
the central coordinating concept of modern biology. And
approximately half of the GOP primary voters believe that
Barack Obama was not born in the United States. These
unsettling thoughts came to my mind, when I heard Michael
Steele’s remark that "not in the history of mankind has the
government ever created a job." This from a man who held a
government job as Lieutenant Governor of Maryland.
REPRISE:
The Dragon at the Gate: The Media Problem. Even though the American media today are subverting our
freedoms and leading us to oligarchy, despotism and economic ruin, we must
deal with them more in sorrow than in anger. The media, with the power of the
government they serve, can crush us in a moment if they perceive us as
"the enemy." And yet they require an audience – "the
public" – to exist, and that is our weapon. The progressive community
should work with the media toward a restoration of the condition of honorable
service to democracy and liberty, that had once made the American press the
envy of the world. (From January, 2003. See also,
"Following the Light").
Conscience of a Progressive.
A Book in Progress
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