Reaganism is best seen as an ideological/quasi-religious worldview.
Generally speaking, there are three dominant political ideologies in US politics today. These are Liberalism/Identity Politics, Market Populism and Reaganism. The first is mostly confined to the...
View ArticleThe framework of reality from the Religious Right is not open to objective...
Religionists are demanding that secularists prove why it is necessary to keep religion out of secular society when it is really the case that the religionist have to show why it is necessary for it to...
View ArticleThe details debunk accusations Joe Wilson lied
the attacks on Wilson's veracity were made by only 3 of the 18 senators on the committee. 15 senators did not accuse wilson of lying. To the 3 who did wilson pointed out that their conclusions were...
View Article"New Orleans Police Scanner Monitoring Open Thread"
this diary is for reporting what folks are saying on the PD radio channels. Live from New Orleans: Police Scanner Audio Feeds. Strange night in the Big Uneasy. Lots of dead air intermingled wih command...
View Article9/2/5 New Orleans Police scanner feeds open thread
this diary is for reporting what folks are saying on the PD radio channels. Live from New Orleans: Police Scanner Audio Feeds. National Guard and NO police are sweeping certain sections of the city and...
View ArticleAttend your next local government meetings
As said on DU....what needs to be said at these meetings is obvious.....but let us state it again."New Orleans could have been our town, what is the plan here in case something like that happens?" if...
View ArticleA member of the America's greatest generation passed away this evening.
My dear uncle, Lowell Aitken, a member of the America's greatest generation passed away this evening. Lowell enlisted in the US Army right after Pearl Harbor, and fought bravely in several WWII...
View ArticleCats or Dogs? Or both or other! Tell us about your pet!
Do you share your life with a furry four-legged friend, or feathered, scaly, or finned one? Tell us about them. (more below the fold)
View ArticleWhy are Democrats talking tactics when it is strategy that must be affected?
Most of what I hear today from Democrats feels off the mark, and eventually deadly to the progressive cause and America in general if we continue to lose elections. Debates by Democrats on the tactical...
View Article7/20/69, Where were you when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon?
For those old enough to remember, where were you, and what were you thinking when you looked up at the sky that night?"On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological...
View ArticleRaise a glass, Jerry Garcia would be 64 today.
"Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going some place else." - Jerry Garcia"I had my first rock and roll experience at a performance of The Grateful Dead in Oakland (in 1986, he...
View ArticleWhat is the collective noun of Busheviks?
I don’t know either, but its time we voted on it.And we know a Bushevik like we know pornography, when we see one.
View ArticleJust returned from the Edwards rally in Seneca SC
Seneca, SC is the town in which he was born and raised as a young man. The crowd was overflowing out of the gym in which he spoke, Edwards was preceded by ex congress critter Ben Jones, more famous as...
View ArticlePOLITICIANS LIE, be adults and try to get used to it.
The latest one is John Edwards who I supported with time and money. But unlike some folks around here I’m not going show immaturity nor bloviating ego to call the guy an asshole like other well known...
View ArticleA shout out to the young Americans who helped lead the rest of us.
I am a 54 year old white male and I wish today that I was 14, so I could live to see the coming changes. But, the first thoughts I had last watching Barack Obama last night were "I wonder where Joe...
View ArticleRepublican Attorney General of Michigan undermines Rule of Law
I want to alert people of this opinion by William Scheutte, Attorney General of Michigan, about the impact of medical marijuana usage in a child protective proceeding. See:...
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