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Our Incredible Shrinking President
It seems like a long time since January, 2009 when Barack Obama was inaugurated after a campaign of promising that he would be a combination of Abraham Lincoln and FDR to where we are today. A large...
View ArticleHow Obama Can Get His Mojo Back
I had no idea that my last blog would go so far. I tracked key words through the New Yorker, Washington Post, CNN, and into scuttlebutt about the internal workings of the White House. Obviously, I'm...
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NSA: It's a LOT worse than you think!
The controversy surrounding Edward Snowden's series of revelations about NSA snooping into America's internet and telephone has been surprisingly muted, although admittedly both criticism and defense...
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perhaps the scariest blog I've ever written (part 1)
Yes, boys and girls -- it's really that scary! Sometimes politics is a horror show. This is certainly one of those times. The NSA cause d'jour has revealed many scary things that we've all known about...
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perhaps the scariest blog I've ever written (parts 2 & 3)
PART II When we last left part 1, we knew from reading an article in the Nation magazine that Barrett Brown had uncovered a story detailing the incestuous relationship between the national security...
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NSA: The Empire Strikes Back
The dominant narrative, the Washington consensus -- it's all the same. There is a seamless interface among the 1%. It makes no difference whether it's CBS, ABC, NBC, or the Washington Post and New...
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IMMIGRATION: Another Dirty Deal
You can be something of an expert about immigration if you cross the border between the US and other countries repeatedly, particularly Mexico. I have gone through San Ysidro, California's border...
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My Most Famous Ghost
I am lucky enough to live in a huge house on a forested hill. A timber baron/gold mine owner built my house in 1928, But unfortunately the Great Depression hit, and he lost just about everything....
View ArticleThe Weakest Defense of Barack Obama Possible
First, let me say it -- I've been ignoring you on purpose. I might live to be 100 years old, but I might die tomorrow. So I've had other more pressing obligations to get off of my chest. You see, I...
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SYRIA: the words that dare not speak their names
The run up to some kind of military action against Syria by the USA is unfortunately inevitable. And even the mainstream media is having a hard time peddling this manure, as it's obvious that only 9%...
View Articlethis site
Open Salon is turning into a ghost town. The only people left are the seriously retarded who are behind the technological curve. But that's probably all right. In the meantime, I'll just try to...
View Articlemind farts
This time, I have nothing weighty to say. Instead I'll let all that pain medication do the talknig for me. Syria is loooooking good! Favorable outcome all over the place. Is Obama a genius or...
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SYRIA: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, but Three Do!
It took me a long time to wrap my brain around this gigantic train wreck of events regarding Syria in the last week or so. Trying to make sense of this triple-reverse Statue of Liberty play of foreign...
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SYRIA: How It Could Go Down From Here
The scenario I'm proposing for Syria is totally amoral. No doubt there are so many powerful interest groups that would align against this course of action that it's 100% guaranteed to be a...
View ArticleBRAIN FARTS (part ii)
FIRST, I WANT TO GET CRAZY ON MEDICATIONS? Any you got in your medicine cabinet is fine by me.Part A: YOUR HOROSCOPENow is the time to socially overreach. Go above and beyond your class, social, and...
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I told you so!
Mr. Smarty Pants, here. I've been quiet for the entire duration of this government shutdown fiasco, but I'm finally putting on my bragging hat. In every respect, the government shutdown was the...
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old new lefty does political science?!
Actual photo of old new lefty taken by FBI spy attending Ecotopia University Political Science Symposium. Old new lefty is a political scientist. At least I was last week when I attended a symposium...
View ArticleWhat I did on my sumer vacation
By Old New Lefty. I know. I get one grade deducted because I mispelled a word in the title. But I have been a busy little beaver lately, and this is one reason why I haven'been hanging out in this dive...
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We are at a watershed in American history
I've been thinking about this post for a long time. We are collectively living in an epoch more astounding, more critical, more life threatening, and more exciting than perhaps any time in human...
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TPP: Is It On The Ropes?
The Transpacific Partnership has certainly had a bad billing from the left and labor. To listen to them, you would think that the TPP was Satan on steroids, and that big business was steamrolling the...
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