January 15, 2014

‘How can you run the country if you can’t run a bridge?’ said of Christie

http://agonist.org/can-run-country-cant-run-bridge-said-christie/

December 31, 2013

Top Citizen Achievements of 2013

Top Citizen Achievements of 2013
By Michael Collins

I’m not talking about celebrities, politicians, and other high profile figures. For this review, citizens refers to everyday people or, as the elite call us, “the little people.” So here goes:

Common decency – people everywhere are helping family, friends, others. All across the country people are opening their homes and extending a helping hand to family, friends, and strangers. Adult children struggling to get started are welcomed home to live with mom and/or dad. Adult children are also taking in their parents and relatives who are in need of a living arrangement just to get by. People reach out to friends with extra assistance to find jobs, get health care, move, etc. There is no mandate from government to do this. The deliberate generosity is found among those of all political persuasions, ethnic groups, and religions. It’s called common decency and since things got tough in 2008, it’s everywhere.

http://agonist.org/top-citizen-achievements-2013/

December 10, 2013

Corporate media tanks on the Hersh story - Why?

http://agonist.org/wash-post-new-yorker-take-dive-hersh-syria-article/

December 3, 2013

Saudi America and the State of Denial

Saudi America and the State of Denial
By Michael Collins

The shale oil boom is really a weapon of mass destruction with a short fuse.

Link: http://agonist.org/saudi-america-state-denial/

November 25, 2013

Tony and the Murdoch's - War Criminals and the Woman They Shared

http://agonist.org/tony-murdochs-war-criminals-woman-shared/

November 17, 2013

Elizabeth Warren as the anti-Clinton

http://agonist.org/elizabeth-warren-anti-clinton/

October 17, 2013

Uncontrollable Boehner and the Bait and Switch Index

Uncontrollable Boehner and the Bait and Switch Index


The Money Party's latest training exercise with live ammunition (aimed at us) is over for a while. At the last minute, the geniuses in your nation's capitol got it together long enough to pass a relatively clean budget resolution and raise the debt limit for a few weeks. The bill also included some intrusive income verification requirements for the Affordable Care Act (ACA)/Obamacare from the people who say they hate the government in their business.

The after-deal spin is simply revolting. Talking head after head said that Boehner couldn't control his caucus and decided to let the nihilist wing of the Republican Party (aka tea party) learn a real life lesson in politics. You see, in addition to being a political hack and philanderer, Boehner is also a great teacher. He let the forty or so tea party representatives run wild to show them just what happens when you you behave like idiots. They might as well have said that pigs live in trees, the founding fathers smoked dope, or something equally ridiculous.

Link: http://agonist.org/uncontrollable-boehner-bait-switch-index/

October 15, 2013

At our expense

At our expense

The mess we're in and the failures to follow due to the gross incompetence and corruption of our (s)elected representatives are all at our expense.

http://agonist.org/expense/

October 10, 2013

Signs that shutdown and debt battle over soon

Signs that shutdown and debt battle over soon

When your favorables drop 36% in a few days in October, your unfavorables jump to 62%, and the Big Daddy Warbucks’ of the nihilist rebellion, the Koch Brothers, back in the corner like a pro wrasslin’ bad guy begging for mercy (It wasn’t our idea to defund Obamacare), the message is clear — stop this very offensive behavior or the party is quite literally over.

September 1, 2013

Beyohd a reasonable doubt?

The intelligence assessment sent to Congress by President Obama supports the president's request that Congress authorize military action against Syria. The assessment consists of a series of assertions about evidence available without any display of that evidence. The materials are "classified," according to the document. That means we won't see the evidence. It also means that Congress can't investigate or debate the quality and reliability of the evidence in public since that would reveal classified information.

http://agonist.org/does-obama-have-evidence-to-blame-syria-for-chemical-weapons-attack/