Mything the Point of "Value Voters"
Myth: A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people. Myths are as old as humanity. Some provide useful insights. Some provide comforting notions. Some are...
View ArticleThe Vineyard - A Fundamentalist Dystopia
Almost nine years ago, I wrote a short sketch, the beginning of a Handmaid's Tale-esque story, my stab at what a theocratic takeover of the United States might look like. Anyhoo, I just found "The...
View ArticleMything The Point of 'It's just politics'
I saw a piece in today's Capitol Hill Blue about racism in the Republican Pary. It starts with Allen and his "macaca" joke:Anyone exposed to Allen for any length of time knows the Virginian, who openly...
View ArticleMother Bush would be proud to call this one her own:
Of Shameless Devotion to Wealth, Privilege, and EmpireBy Jason MillerConsider this my mea culpa for publishing If You Hate America So Much, Why Don’t You Get the Hell Out! (1) on my notoriously...
View ArticlePeggy Noonan: A Whoring She Will Go
Dateline: 5/1/07"Peggy Noonan (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York) is an author of seven books on politics, religion and culture and a weekly columnist for the Wall...
View ArticleA Conservative’s Garden of False Narratives: Who are you calling a...
[The Republican candidates for president and their fantasy-prone constituents wish to set the Way Back Machine to the golden days of the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was impersonating a man just arrived...
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The Racist Roots of the Anti-Immigration Movement
By Lee CokorinosPat Buchanan: the amiable fascist for all seasons.Prominent leaders of the anti-immigration movement would have us believe that not a ounce of racism lies behind their efforts. The most...
View ArticleOne Reactionary at a time....
While doing the daily business of my grinding, thankless job, I noticed two guys I worked with having an animated discussion and ducked myself into it.The subject, of course, was Barack Obama and why...
View ArticleFrom “Dominion” to Domination: The Duplicity and Complicity of...
By Dr. Steve Best, Ph.D.In 2002, arch-conservative Matthew Scully wrote a book called, Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Call to Mercy, that was universally and uncritically...
View ArticleAre we ready to fight for what we believe in?
The struggle has begun to look more like what some of us have been expecting. I'd say that the last few days have been evidence that the powers that be are frightened beyond belief. They keep...
View Article"Left" Obamites prefer Kool-Aid to Struggle / By Glen Ford
FOR SOME TIME NOW a growing segment of the self-defined left has been vituperative in its attacks on fellow progressives who remain unimpressed by Pres. Obama's performance so far, especially as it...
View ArticleQuick to despair, I am afraid!
I, a long time skeptic of party politics, was moved to register as a Democrat and to join forces with the Democratic party organization to elect Barack Obama and to put an end to the most corrupt and...
View ArticleStrange Bedfellows Abound as Conservatives Scramble to Delegitimize President
Dateline - Washington D.C.In an unforeseen fulfillment of President Obama’s pledge to bring Americans together, conservative groups across the country are reaching out to former political foes to...
View ArticleREPENT: The End is Near
"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."Brooks...
View ArticleTea Party Madness: Old School Prejudice's Last Stand
At the outset of the Tea Party demonstrations, comparisons were made to The Civil War by myself and other people. In retrospect, this was far too generous a comparison to make. I hardly wish to grant...
View ArticleA Christmas Carol: The Reactionaries
It's a puzzling paradox. This is supposed to be the happiest, fuzziest time of the year and yet we get more of the culture-war tripe during these precious few weeks where we are reminded of the unique...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Moderation
President Franklin Roosevelt once elegantly said: "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." Besides taking bold strides to end a...
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Mitt Romney drinks the Flat Tax KoolAid
Mitt Romney is the latest Republican rushing to adopt an ultra-regressive Flat Tax, in an effort to appeal to the radicals who decide the Republican Primaries.Romney joining his GOP rivals in flat-tax...
View ArticleReactionism Starts Here
DailyKos is fantastic for getting to what's behind national issues. It does a great job of publicizing community-wide ideas and issues that get no traction anywhere else. It leads the way on stories...
View ArticlePeas in a pod: Koret Foundation, The Hoover Institution, and Democrats for...
This Essay explores how Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) policy positions and core ideology is identical to that of the arch-reactionary The Hoover Institution and the fringe-right Koret...
View ArticleIsn't It Time?
Yesterday, I bought a box of LPs left over from a neighbor's garage sale. A friend came over last night and we tickled some memories.Late for the Sky. More Than a Feeling. Freakin' out in a moonage...
View ArticlePetrilli's polemic against Alfie Kohn: Half-reactionary, half-mendacious
First published in Schools Matter on March 26, 2012Excerpt: With a shameful broadside against the esteemed Alfie Kohn, Fordham's Michael Petrilli demonstrates once more why he's the darling of The...
View ArticleAllow Me To Rage Wildly For Just A Moment...
My reaction to a facebook-criticism of Michelle Obama's choice of outfit for the Kid's Choice Awards.
View ArticleOpen letter to Doug Tuthill of the American Center for School Choice
The so-called "Parent Trigger" is an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) template law written primarily by right-wingers Bill Lucia of EdVoice and Ben Austin of Green Dot School Corporation....
View ArticleThe Mandate - Leaving the Crazies Behind
In the afterglow of Obama’s resounding second term victory much will be written about the popular vote, a still-divided nation and the need for compromise.When the chattering classes and the closet...
View ArticleA Few Good Trolls
Central Question: How do we engage with reactionary movements? (Warning: this discusses the Tea Party and #GamerGate—both are noxious, but the latter ought to come with a trigger warning because...
View ArticleThe Confederacy is rising again in Texas. Sigh.
While a few southern states such as Georgia and North Carolina and cities like New Orleans have voted to ditched their Confederate monuments from public display, the Great State of Texas—via small...
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alt-Right, Feebs, + Vince Foster swamp the drain on Day 5 Strategy of Tension...
They’ve broken out of mothballs or scraped the bottom of the barrel of favorite CTs, only this time it seems the FBI has decided, in their best J. Edgar finery, that tension at the polls needs a boost,...
View ArticleRemember when conservatives stood for slow, incremental change?
Remember when conservatives stood for, or at least claimed to stand for, slow, incremental, responsible change?In recent conversations with a number of Trump voters, I have heard more than one person...
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Federal data that Reactionaries dislike is disappearing from view all across...
Lets get one thing clear. Trump and his appointees are NOT Conservative, they are Reactionary.They want to turn back the clock.Now these Reactionaries are hiding some government data from their own...
View ArticleUNLESS
I'm beginning to think that the reactionary's favorite word is "unless".For example:Blue lives matter unless the police ask for a raise or suggest that their jobs would be easier if they didn't have to...
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Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
First published on Schools Matter on January 21, 2020“In the long run, charter schools are being strategically used to pave the way for vouchers. The voucher advocates, who are very powerful and funded...
View ArticleMerchants of Separatism
How did we become a nation divided? Why is it one part of the country thinks that Chick-Fil-A is the greatest restaurant the nation has ever seen and others, who may also like chicken sandwiches,...
View ArticleLots of Partisan Pus Is Oozing Out Of The "Non-Political" SCOTUS.
Hunter has the news about Neil Gorsuch purposely endangering Justice Sotomayor’s health. But it appears that this latest incident of Republican “Fuck You”ism has opened up the huge political paritsan...
View ArticleMore on Wendell Berry's very bad book.
I think there is a need to examine further just how reactionary and oppressive the world Berry wants would be. Helpfully he provides an example that can be analyzed to show how rotten life under...
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