"if the class of Republicans elected in 2010 were offered a chance to repeal the Enlightenment, they would leap at the opportunity. The great flowering of science and philosophy that reached critical mass in the 17th century employed human reason to batter away at the dogmas of blind faith. But as far as the Tea Party seems to be concerned, that was just one big wrong turn."
May 27, 2012
May 26, 2012
"First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me."
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me."
May 26, 2012
May 26, 2012
"1997 C.R.A.C.K. (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity), a California nonprofit, offers $200 to any drug-addicted woman who agrees to be sterilized or get birth-control implants. Founder Barbara Harris explains, “We don’t allow dogs to breed…We try to keep them from having unwanted puppies, and yet these women are literally having litters of children."
May 25, 2012
"1976 Jimmy Carter runs for president; pledges to decriminalize pot."
May 25, 2012
"1950s FBN chief Anslinger provides Sen. Joe McCarthy morphine for fear that exposing his addiction would put country at risk. “On the day he died,” Anslinger later writes, “I thanked God for relieving me of my burden."
May 25, 2012
"1914 William Randolph Hearst starts campaign against cannabis, in part for fear that hemp paper could undercut his wood-pulp market share. His papers usher the word “marihuana” into the English language in articles about reefer-crazed blacks raping white women and playing “voodoo-satanic” jazz music. When Pancho Villa’s army seizes Hearst estates during Mexican Revolution, he denounces Mexicans as lazy drug addicts."
May 23, 2012
"2002 was officially the year I turned into a News Junkie. Guess what channel I watched back then? Yep, Fox News. Probably about 5 hours a day of it. I didn’t know much about bias. But after watching uber-trusted Colin Powell tell us about anthrax and aerial photos, then his friend Condi tell us about mushroom clouds, I still wasn’t buying it. I told my friends and family that this whole Iraq war thingy was a travesty. That was an unpopular opinion. Some people yelled at me. Others told me their dad or uncle or some other mountaintop sage said it was a good idea, so; overruled. Shortly thereafter I started to understand what my political identity is, and my cynicism cranked up a good bajillion notches. America! FUCK YEAH! But to the point: I don’t remember much in the way of criticizing the war lead up from the mainstream media."
— Chris Matthews: Cable News Never Would Have Let That Bad Iraq Reporting Go Unchecked
May 23, 2012
"Now, attorneys for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , a 100%-corporate funded lobbying group that has used the Citizens United decision to pump tens of millions of undisclosed dollars into federal elections over the last two years, is fighting to maintain the status quo. And they don’t want the justices to consider the evidence that the Citizens United decision, along with prior examples of corporate involvement in campaigns, causes corruption."
May 21, 2012
May 21, 2012
Almost Politically Correct Redneck
He’s trying at least?
May 21, 2012
May 19, 2012
May 19, 2012
May 19, 2012
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