Politics & Power

America Needs Another Bush?

bushobama May 16, 2013

Accusing President Obama of “caviling over chemical weapons in Syria,” The Economist insists that events in Syria are “exposing Mr Obama’s hubris,” his “overconfidence,” and revealing his foreign policy ineptitude. President Obama, says The Economist…, “is cautious to a

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Harassed by the IRS? Don’t be Surprised.

wolf May 13, 2013

Hidden Springs Lane…. Americans have recently learned that certain groups seeking non-profit status were subjected to, ahem, “heightened scrutiny” by the IRS.  It seems that groups that used words like “Tea Party” and “Patriot” were singled out for rougher

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What Then Must We Do?: Worker Ownership Redux

cover May 2, 2013

The following is an excerpt from from Gar Alperovitz’s What Then Must We Do? (Chelsea Green, 2013) and is reprinted with permission of the publisher. Learn more about the book here. 
By the way, and finally (for the moment), there are also many, many worker-owned…

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Telling the Truth about Immigration

images April 26, 2013

Berwyn, PA.…  Nobody wants to.  Most politicians would rather appeal to platitudes about America as a “nation of immigrants” than confront their responsibility to attend to the common good of their own people.  And, depending on the poll you

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The Problem of Undertheorized Agrarianism in Most Actually Argued Localism

April 25, 2013

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
That’s a terrible title for this post, I know. But hopefully it’ll make sense, if you actually make it to the end.
First of all, if any reader of this blog has missed out on…

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Unsolicited Advice for the Republican Party

GOP April 21, 2013

Hidden Springs Lane…. It is clear that the GOP is in disarray. The recent CPAC conference only served to highlight that the Republicans are bereft of ideas. Railing against “big government” and championing a bellicose foreign policy have proven

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Mark Mitchell’s Politics of Gratitude (Theoretical and Otherwise)

tree April 18, 2013

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
To continue with the excellent discussion begun by R.J. Snell, Mark Mitchell’s fine and thoughtful book is filled with important insights and challenges, which do not, in my judgment, quite achieve what the author lays…

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How to Write History and Practice Bourbon Politics

Carson April 17, 2013

But as a gesture of good faith he agreed to limit himself to a quart a day.

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Capital Offense

April 14, 2013

Washington, DC…
I’ve been spending my semester in exile in our nation’s capital. My apartment is in Arlington, on a ridge overlooking the city. From that spot I have a clear view of the Pentagon, the Capitol dome, the Washington

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U.S. ‘Intervention’ in Syria Unlawful

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Proponents of Syria “intervention” did not seem to notice any irony as Secretary of State John Kerry, on the one hand, chastened Iraq for letting Iran use its airspace to aid President Assad’s regime in Syria,[1] and, they, on the…

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Our Slippery Slope into the Age of “Big Love”

Santorum April 5, 2013

Berwyn, PA.…  Many of us will recall the criticism Rick Santorum endured regarding this passage from a 2003 interview:
And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [homosexual] sex within your home, then you

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Democracy Is A Racket

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War and Democracy…
by Paul Gottfried
Arktos Media Ltd
170 pp., $21.00
 
In this slender volume Paul Gottfried addresses everything from the influence of ancient Greek thought on Oswald Spengler, to the influence of Zionism on US foreign policy,

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In Defense of President Obama’s Syria Policy

U.S. President Obama speaks at the White House in Washington March 21, 2013

Myriad calls have been made for intervention in Syria. President Obama has been blamed with everything from “feeble paralysis most foul” to subcontracting “foreign policy to the likes of Qatar” and lacking principle in his national security calculus. Supposedly, Syria…

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Deleting the Individual: Big Data and Presidential Campaigns

digit city March 19, 2013

The following is an excerpt from David Masciotra’s new book, Against Traffic: Essays on Politics and Identity. For sale exclusively at Amazon.
Looking back over the 2012 Presidential Election, it is easy to see how team membership, echo chamber media,…

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Filibustering the Filibuster

Senate-chamber March 9, 2013

Washington, Connecticut. As I watched Senator Rand Paul slurp his dripping candy bar, a sinking feeling set in. This does not diminish his determined stance but one should rightly be filled with despair at the idea that a Senator must…

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Something About Which Leftists, Localists, and Libertarians (But Probably Not Philosophical Liberals) Ought to Agree

March 7, 2013

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Senator Rand Paul’s filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to be head of the CIA–something that he did in order to “draw attention to deep concern on both sides of the political aisle about…

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