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I put up a post earlier about the demographic profile of those who are susceptible to recruitment by terrorists.  It was less about terrorists, though, than about Trump.  His earliest supporters, it turns out, share that demographic profile.  For those...

It’s time to push back hard and unrelentingly against Trump’s latest big lie: that the media is biased against him.  That has become his and his peoples’ response to everything.  It must not ...

Whatever conservatism once may have been, it is no longer.  Modern American conservatism is evil.  There is no other word for it.  The proof is the tax crime that conservatives are about to pull off and for which they have sold their souls to their...

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson produced, somewhat optimistically, a draft constitution for Virginia.  It in, he writes, “All persons shall have full & free liberty of religious opinion ….” In 1783, in yet another draft constitution for...

(as distinct from the recent kindergarten lunch-table food fights). Forget Hillary v Sanders. Forget all the others, individually. O'Malley came the closest to nailing at the end. Just think ...

Somewhere around 10,000 years-ago, the last of the so-called saber-toothed cats disappeared from what would become the fossil record. Humanity breathed a collective sigh of relief. Somewhere ...

Donald Trump said today that having the government track Muslims in this country is a good idea, and that a national data-base to register them would require little more than good management.  He also

If you recognize yourself here, www.theonion.com/... it might be time to reassess your approach to governance.

This has been an adventurous year for Republicans: they discovered the middle class. The annual Koch jamboree even discovered the poor. Republican candidates in tonight’s debate discovered and ...

Millennia after we emerged from the cave, we cling to the paintings on its walls: modern man turning to sympathetic magic to better the hunt.  We've traded the cave for massive cathedrals and pretenti

The Democratic presidential nominee has been chosen: in effect, in essence, for practical purposes, however you want to put it.  My candidate, Bernie Sanders, has acknowledged as much.  I hope he keeps going to influence the platform.  I hope he keeps...

At the Democratic Convention, President Obama noted that people outside of this country don’t understand what’s going on in this election.  Well, neither do I.  And neither does anyone else, from what I can tell.  I’ve been trying to figure out why...

Thomas Paine, having helped transform a mutiny over taxes into a revolution in the principles of government, said, “An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”  Since then, the wars that define us as a nation have been about...

Maybe not fully, not yet, but  the differences, stark as they may be, are of magnitude, of potency, not of kind.  So much of what Trump has said and done shouts at us that, secretly, he would be Hitler.  So, never having paid any price for his...

Despite the right’s hatred of entitlements, the people in this country who feel the most entitled are the wealthy. They believe themselves inherently deserving of ever-greater wealth, influence, ...

How can a man who is sufficiently intelligent to have become a very good neurosurgeon also be a complete idiot? Lawrence Krauss, in an article in The New Yorker , details Ben Carson’s anti-...

The Supreme Court has ruled on what the LA Times calls a “well-planned legal assault on public unions.”  Or maybe it didn’t rule.  It dead-locked, 4 to 4, which means that the lower court’s pro-union ruling stands.  It stands, though, as a lower...

Since the election, I’ve been trying to figure out when Democrats separated from unions.  This is the eighth post in a series.  Previous posts can be found at the following links. Whatever Happened to Unions? Whatever Happened to Unions?  An...

 An illegitimate President now has given us an illegitimate Supreme Court.  Yes, he had the help of a Senate majority leader for whom democracy and the rule of law are not priorities.  Yes, he had the help of the racists, the misogynists, the...

Facing a tough question? Caught off guard or unprepared? Stuck in a venue where the truth would be embarrassing? No problem! Just bash the media. Bask in the applause of persecutory delusionals.

Bobby Knight has endorsed Donald Trump, thus creating what David Zirin at “The Nation” accurately calls a Brotherhood of Bullies.  However, Trump’s behavior is anomalous for his arena.  Knight’s behavior in his arena often is held up as the character...

I don’t mean to short-change Donald Trump’s base, but I cannot explain them.  I’ve tried, and I just can’t.  I can, however, explain the other component of Trump’s success.    Robert Costa, in a recent Washington Post blog, reported on an...

Yesterday, before the "Access Hollywood" story broke, I heard a television “pundit” wonder aloud whether the next debate would be the charm.  Will Trump change?  Will he correct course?  Will ...

Bigthink.com published a synopsis of British political theorist Roger Griffin’s work on fascism.  Griffin’s high-level definition of fascism is as follows: a form of populist, ultra-nationalism ...

The current gaggle of Republican pretenders to the Presidency is using the issue of gun violence to showcase its leadership capabilities: shrug it off America because “stuff happens;” shrug it ...

The most typical Trump supporters are members of a recurrent demographic.  I refer to those who first raised him up, who were drawn to him instinctively early in the primary.  By May, Trump was pulling in other demographics, but this likely was due to...

From the AP: Concern that global warming could make it more expensive to store and transport wine has caused the Wine Institute to turn to the GOP.  In a letter to the Republican National Committee,

From the New York Times: “‘False Flag’ Theory on Pipe Bombs Zooms From Right-Wing Fringe to Mainstream.”  From the next day: “Bombing Suspect Arrested in Florida; Van With Pro-Trump Stickers Seized”      “Mr. Sayoc, a registered Republican …..”...