Posting History for JoeCarl
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| The Religious Right: All Power-Lust, No Conscience We have a history of confusing the imposition of one’s religion on others with religious liberty. Witness the “War on Christians,” which is Fox’s way of saying that Christians no longer ... |
JoeCarl | 09/10/2015 | 2 | 5 | - | - |
| Follow Bernie’s Lead – But More So 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, ... |
JoeCarl | 09/15/2015 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Unions Have a Responsibility to More than Their Members I believe in unions. They stand for the dignity of working men and women. They are all that stand between workers and exploitation. If you work for a living, you should be pro-union. But unions ... |
JoeCarl | 09/17/2015 | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Pope Francis, Democrats, and Real Family Values First, I am not a Christian. I was raised one, though, and I would like to start a dialog with those of you who have not yet gone astray (that is, awakened to reason). The Pope’s visit and the ... |
JoeCarl | 09/22/2015 | 12 | 1 | - | - |
| The Pope and a Cast of Thousands Deny the Obvious: Religion is the Problem Today, the Pope’s visit to Ground Zero featured an “interfaith” prayer service with so many religious leaders that it bordered on satire. They all assured us that religiously inspired ... |
JoeCarl | 09/25/2015 | 59 | 4 | - | - |
| Attack the Small-Government Myth Head On In the 1996 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton declared that "the era of big government is over." He did give a sop to New Deal Democrats, saying that we could not go back “to the ... |
JoeCarl | 09/29/2015 | 75 | 69 | 1 | - |
| Beliefs are Protected, Actions Less So On the first day of 1802, President Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to a “committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.” The Baptists had a problem. They were ... |
JoeCarl | 09/30/2015 | 7 | 18 | - | - |
| Challenge the Republican Line on Gun Control Former Minnesota Governor and former Republican Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty tonight was on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell . The discussion turned to gun control, and ... |
JoeCarl | 10/05/2015 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| When Reality Drop Kicks Your Political Dogma South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, along with the rest of South Carolina’s congressional gang, voted against federal aid to New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy literally devastated large swaths ... |
JoeCarl | 10/06/2015 | 6 | 9 | - | - |
| Republicans Show Leadership on Gun Violence 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 ... |
JoeCarl | 10/06/2015 | 1 | 7 | - | - |
| A Question for Those Literate in Economics I recently heard an author on television claim that Ronald Reagan produced a quarter century of growth by lowering the top marginal tax rates. I couldn’t remember that quarter century of “growth, |
JoeCarl | 10/10/2015 | 43 | 3 | - | - |
| The Great Debate (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 ... |
JoeCarl | 10/13/2015 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| Trump Has Tapped Not into Anger but an Incompetent Press I'm tired of hearing our lazy, superficial, incompetent press talk about Donald Trump having tapped into an angry electorate spoiling for dramatic change. A mid-October, NBC News/ Wall Street ... |
JoeCarl | 10/19/2015 | 12 | 7 | - | - |
| Tax Cuts Do NOT Generate Economic Growth In a previous diary, I presented a plot that showed that tax cuts do not produce economic growth. While looking for more data, I found that the Congressional Research Service (CRS) already had done ... |
JoeCarl | 10/20/2015 | 57 | 64 | 1 | - |
| Republicans Care About You 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 ... |
JoeCarl | 10/28/2015 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| Tired of the Same Old Campaigning? Bash the Media 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. |
JoeCarl | 10/29/2015 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Clinton and Sanders Need Each Other Hillary Clinton has made a running series of jabs based on a Bernie Sanders’ comment about shouting that did not mean what the Clinton campaign pretends it meant. That is a move worthy of Fox. ... |
JoeCarl | 10/30/2015 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| The Black Hole That is Republican Philosophy In the last Republican debate, Ben Carson said that we should use our intellect to solve our problems rather than ask government to do it. He was expressing an archetypal Republican belief but in a ... |
JoeCarl | 11/01/2015 | 8 | 17 | - | - |
| The Iron-Age Mentality of the Republican Base (and Other Threats to Humanity) 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 ... |
JoeCarl | 11/02/2015 | 5 | 6 | - | - |
| The Death of Death Panels On “The Incidental Economist” blog, Aaron Carroll reports that the Obama administration has issue a rule that essentially brings back the fabled Death Panels of Republican lore (http://... |
JoeCarl | 11/03/2015 | 4 | 3 | - | - |
| Ben Carson and the Republican are in (Science) Denial 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-... |
JoeCarl | 11/05/2015 | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| Starbucks’ War on Christmas: Stupid on Steroids or a Power Play? What is the latest indignity that has the religious right frothing at the mouth? Is it the persistence of wide-spread poverty in this richest nation in the world? Is it the number of American childr |
JoeCarl | 11/09/2015 | 12 | 8 | - | - |
| There They Go Again: Tax Cutting as Religion In tonight’s Republican debate, there was a prayer service featuring a liturgical petition and response. The petition was given by the Fox Business, fair-and-balanced moderators: “Oh Reagan, thou gav |
JoeCarl | 11/10/2015 | 5 | 8 | - | - |
| New Rule for Democratic Debates: Attack Republican Positions The last Republican debate was closer to a substantive discussion than were their previous debates, which is sad considering that it wasn’t all that close. More typical was the amount of time spent a |
JoeCarl | 11/14/2015 | 8 | 6 | - | - |
| Modern-Day Cave Paintings - Without the Art 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 |
JoeCarl | 11/15/2015 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Politicians, the Press, and Paris: Fear Mongering for Fun and Profit Why do we always make our enemies into seven-foot, three-hundred pound, geniuses trained to fight like Bruce Lee and Jason Bourne combined?
Does anyone really think that it is that hard to coord |
JoeCarl | 11/16/2015 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Ben Carson’s Ego Trumps Trump’s Ben Carson is a presidential candidate with no relevant experience, no observable understanding of government, no policies, and either no ability or no desire to scrutinize bizarre beliefs. He does h |
JoeCarl | 11/17/2015 | 6 | 9 | - | - |
| John Kasich – What Desperation Looks Like Governor John Kasich of Ohio is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and he desperately wants to be seen as the sane clown in the Republican car. That has not worked out. However |
JoeCarl | 11/18/2015 | 7 | 9 | - | - |
| Donald Trump Wants a National Data-Base to Track Muslims 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 |
JoeCarl | 11/19/2015 | 5 | - | - | - |
| Muslim Moderates Cannot Help Us The Paris atrocity should show the emptiness of demanding that moderate Muslims speak out against Muslim terrorists. They have been speaking out, and they have been making YouTube videos and holding |
JoeCarl | 11/20/2015 | 20 | 1 | - | - |
| Science Deniers: When Greed Has Existential Consequences There are at least two categories of science deniers. One is faith driven: the earth is 6,000 years old and evolution is a lie from hell. In a competitive world of constantly evolving technologies, |
JoeCarl | 11/22/2015 | 6 | 15 | - | - |
| The Stupid-Cycle: Trump, Bush, Cruz, the Media and Giving Credit Where it’s Due More than 24 hours after The Donald unleashed his latest attack on rational thought, it still was hard to find any news that wasn’t about some courageous person or group standing up to say that Donald |
JoeCarl | 12/09/2015 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| Mary Poppins: The Original Super-Nanny or Insidious Tool of Plutocrats? Tonight, I saw a promo for the usual holiday-season broadcast of Mary Poppins. It’s a great movie with wonderful music, a talented cast, and a pro-family story. Wait – let’s think about that last pa |
JoeCarl | 12/13/2015 | 11 | - | - | - |
| If the Last Republican Debate Did Not Scare You, You are Unscarable One of the ways I evaluate pretenders to the presidency is what I call the October Test. I remember walking home from school one day in October of 1962 to parents who seemed unusually subdued and glued to the television set. Over the next few days, I no |
JoeCarl | 12/15/2015 | 219 | 204 | - | - |
| The Second Amendment is an Anachronism; a Partisan Supreme Court Makes it a Dangerous One After watching the CNN “panel” discuss the President’s Town Hall meeting on gun control, I think it is only right that CNN drop one N and, henceforth, be known as Cable Network. But CNN is too easy a |
JoeCarl | 01/07/2016 | 19 | 8 | - | - |
| The Free Market: Embracing an 18th Century Economic Model The upcoming Republican debate will feature moderators from the Fox Business Network. That means another lovefest, replete with softball questions and set ups that aid and abet. In preparation, I de |
JoeCarl | 01/10/2016 | 94 | 37 | - | - |
| Of Diplomacy, War, and Idiots The recent seizure by Iran of two small, American naval vessels was an unfortunate incident made more unfortunate by the conflicting explanations we thus far have been given. However, excepting that, |
JoeCarl | 01/13/2016 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| The Republican Government-Destruction Derby: Jobs and Even Lives are Just Part of the Game The Great Recession of 2008 was caused by the Republican devotion to unfettered freedom – for corporations. During a decades-long retreat from prudent regulations, marked by speculation joy-rides, ad |
JoeCarl | 02/07/2016 | 13 | 34 | - | - |
| Taking on Republican Tribal Politics: Because This Election is Critical During the Civil War, white Southern boys from poor and yeoman families gave their lives by the hundreds of thousands so that a landed aristocracy could continue to build wealth from the raw material |
JoeCarl | 02/15/2016 | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| Trump Could be a Problem for Democrats – Especially if Democrats Help Him US News reports that “a sizable number of Democrats” are ready to “defect” to Trump. The New York Times says that Trump’s “very best voters are self-identified Republicans who nonetheless are registe |
JoeCarl | 02/28/2016 | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Rubio 2.0 I am no fan of either Chris Christie or Donald Trump. Then again, I don’t like any of the Republican candidates. However, give credit where it’s due. Christie and Trump got Marco Rubio exactly righ |
JoeCarl | 03/01/2016 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| Stud Poker Aspirant Ted Cruz to Donald Trump: “I’ll see your ignorance and raise you a lunacy.” Ted Cruz responded to the Brussels atrocity with “We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods ….” Donald Trump jumped in to say that he was completely on board with that, but it was little more than a sad effort to hide t |
JoeCarl | 03/22/2016 | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Modern Republicans, the Tea Party, Trump, Cruz, and All the Others: We Were Warned In a recent post about Cruz wanting to put Muslims in ghettos, I call George Orwell the new Nostradamus. I was wrong. Mad Magazine already had that honor.
A friend sent me the link. Watch it, then pick your jaw up off the floor. It probably was h |
JoeCarl | 03/23/2016 | 9 | 5 | - | - |
| If You Want to See What a Republican-Controlled America Would Look Like, Look to Flint Michigan’s Republican Governor and its Republican-controlled State Senate and House have betrayed their citizens, at least a good chunk of those who are poor and African American. But, contrary to press reports, Flint is not a tragic mistake. It is a bl |
JoeCarl | 03/28/2016 | 34 | 59 | - | - |
| Public Employee Unions Saved - For Now. Whether That Sticks Depends on Us. 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... |
JoeCarl | 03/30/2016 | 3 | 6 | - | - |
| Trump’s Response to the Arrest of His Campaign Manager Is His Campaign in Microcosm Today, CNN reported that “Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was arrested and charged in Jupiter, Florida, with simple battery of former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, according to police.” This grew out of a campaign event during... |
JoeCarl | 03/29/2016 | 6 | 5 | - | - |
| Minimum wage Hikes Do Cost Jobs. However, … California has passed a $15-per-hour minimum wage. As a resident watching it all, it was hard to tell which was the more predictable: the prophecies of doom from Republicans or the media pretending that any utterance on the topic was worthy of... |
JoeCarl | 04/11/2016 | 10 | 6 | - | - |
| Why the National Press Never Will Properly Report Elections Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816.
“if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be.”
In Jefferson’s day, the news media consisted... |
JoeCarl | 04/18/2016 | 26 | 43 | - | - |
| Because We Are Democrats: An Invitation to a Community Effort 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... |
JoeCarl | 04/27/2016 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Why do Schools Condone Bullies? 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... |
JoeCarl | 04/28/2016 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| To Make a Real Movement, Sanders Supporters First Must Stop Deluding Themselves I had thought and hoped that Bernie would bring back the Party of FDR. I thought he was the first candidate in three decades that spoke to the base. I still believe that he is the only reason that Hillary Clinton checked into Wall-Street rehab. But... |
JoeCarl | 05/02/2016 | 41 | 6 | - | - |
| The Hollow Republican Bluster About ISIS The 2nd of May, 2016, marked five years since Navy SEALs caught up with Osama bin Laden. That prompted a number of articles on the current state of al-Qaida. The gist was that, though no longer preeminent, al-Qaida still is a player and is undergoing... |
JoeCarl | 05/05/2016 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| The Anti-Hate Party My boys are only a few years out of high school, and I still think about their African American friends from that time and wonder. Did they understand just how short was the time that separated them from the brutality of Jim Crow? Did they understand... |
JoeCarl | 05/08/2016 | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| Donald Trump + TV News = Perfect Storm for Democracy 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... |
JoeCarl | 05/09/2016 | 2 | - | - | - |
| I Supported Bernie Early and Late, But No Longer. I never was a “true” believer, but that’s a general principle. It leads to rationalizing irrational beliefs and behaviors. But I was a believer. Bernie’s message had been missing from Democratic politics for over a decade. It had been missing from... |
JoeCarl | 05/18/2016 | 508 | 379 | - | - |
| Bernie, Hillary, and History Writing in the Washington Post, James Hohmann has given a sharply pertinent example of the importance of historical context. He wrote about Donald Trump’s ignorance in dredging up scandals and conspiratorial fantasies from Bill Clinton’s presidency. ... |
JoeCarl | 05/28/2016 | 11 | 11 | - | - |
| To Bernie-or-Busters: If you recognize yourself here,
www.theonion.com/...
it might be time to reassess your approach to governance. |
JoeCarl | 06/09/2016 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| The Parallel Between Trump Supporters and Jihadists 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... |
JoeCarl | 06/13/2016 | 1 | 8 | - | - |
| Are We, as a People, Really This Stupid About Terrorism? 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... |
JoeCarl | 06/13/2016 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| There is Republican Dignity, and Then There is True Dignity During the action, tonight, by Democrats on the floor of The House of Representatives, Speaker Ryan called for behavior “that reflects positively on the dignity and the decorum of this house.”
It occurs to me that Rep. John Lewis sitting on the... |
JoeCarl | 06/22/2016 | 2 | 4 | - | - |
| Mainstream Republicans and The Reservoir of Willful Ignorance 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... |
JoeCarl | 07/31/2016 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| How Bad Can the Tax Returns Be? Trump has made it clear that he never will release his tax returns. This is a man untroubled by public display of his racism, of his ignorance, of his misogyny, intolerance, and xenophobia, and of continual and blatant lying. So, how bad must be... |
JoeCarl | 08/03/2016 | 8 | 6 | - | - |
| Is Jill Stein Viable as a Protest Candidate? This is not about whether you should cast a protest vote. This is about making sure that, in the process, you don’t protest something you had not intended to.
There is no pure or clean vote in a democracy. Every vote carries baggage. Take the... |
JoeCarl | 08/06/2016 | 133 | 36 | - | - |
| Trump is Right – The Election IS Rigged Donald Trump may be, is, in fact, an openly racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, narcissistic, authoritarian, ignorant, habitual liar — but when he’s right, he’s right
This election is rigged.
“As of August 2016, 31 states enforced voter... |
JoeCarl | 08/15/2016 | 6 | 5 | - | - |
| Trump is Catching – Not Catching On, Just Contagious I just watched Rick Perry on CNN defend Donald Trump for attacking the parents of Captain Humayun Khan. His claim was that The Donald was justified in attacking this family because they used a partisan event to attack Trump for no reason other than... |
JoeCarl | 08/16/2016 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| Government Bailouts: It Turns Out There IS a Moral Issue As part of an effort to better understand Republican economic doctrine, I’ve been trying to figure out why conservatives hate the bank bailouts that occurred during the Great Recession. I would have thought that not allowing your country’s banking... |
JoeCarl | 08/18/2016 | 7 | 5 | - | - |
| Conservatives Want to Re-Write the Constitution. The Budgeting Part Fails an I.Q. Test. Conservatives are making a push to rewrite the constitution. One of their improvements would be a balanced budget amendment. This would preclude a number of activities, including war. Such an ... |
JoeCarl | 08/25/2016 | 33 | 28 | - | - |
| The Koch-Built Tea Party Wrecked the Recovery – Make Them Own That The recovery from the Great Recession has been shamefully unequal. For the wealthy, it’s been vigorous. For most of us, it’s been slow. For too many, it’s been imaginary. Now, Republicans, as they are wont to do, are trying to turn back on us an... |
JoeCarl | 08/29/2016 | 121 | 139 | - | - |
| Joe Biden is Who We Are I watched Joe Biden, this morning, speaking to union guys in Ohio.
I normally try to be as substantive as possible in posts, but this speech struck me as hard as any I have ever heard – and I’ve been around for a while — so I wanted to get the... |
JoeCarl | 09/01/2016 | 9 | 7 | - | - |
| A Two-Pronged Attack Against Media Bias There has been a recent flurry of comments regarding the media’s malfeasance: posts here at DKos and a few articles by the print media calling out of the whole media. Calling the media out is ... |
JoeCarl | 09/08/2016 | 8 | 5 | - | - |
| The Clinton Campaign Has an Opportunity to go Positive – And Still Hammer Trump I just heard a television pundit, one I respect, say that Hillary cannot improve her negatives so she may as well continue to attack. I won’t argue with attacking Trump, but I think it’s simplistic to say that she cannot improve her negatives.
Let... |
JoeCarl | 09/14/2016 | 14 | 3 | - | - |
| A Note to Hillary’s Spokespeople: Time to Step It Up a Bit After watching a few interviews, today, it seems clear that Trump’s people have been told to double down on the “Hillary started the birther movement” lie. It also seems that many of you ... |
JoeCarl | 09/17/2016 | 8 | 6 | - | - |
| Are We Down to Using the Same Juvenile Approach That Trump Uses? Well, Yes…. I Guess…. Maybe…. There have been at least two recent diaries suggesting that we start a concerted campaign to label Donald Trump as a coward: BorderGal and bosdcla14 . Both authors provided supporting arguments, ... |
JoeCarl | 09/20/2016 | 18 | 2 | - | - |
| Three of Our Four Presidential Candidates Are Science Deniers I’m going to blow right past any fine distinction between denying science and just being breathtakingly ignorant of it. Sometimes that difference is real and matters. But in this case, we have ... |
JoeCarl | 09/24/2016 | 19 | 23 | - | - |
| Winner of the First Debate (Fact Checkers): NPR This may be a little late: I suspect most of us have been reveling in checked facts for more than 24 hours, and I haven’t paid enough attention to know all of those that might have been discussed ... |
JoeCarl | 09/28/2016 | 9 | 5 | - | - |
| It’s Time to Start Calling the Republican Party What It Is: The Anti-Democracy Party Republicans long have acted as if they were entitled to at least govern if not to rule. That entitlement is a matter of religious fervor for some and of ideological fervo r for others. It ... |
JoeCarl | 09/30/2016 | 65 | 51 | - | - |
| Searching for That One Word That Defines Donald Trump? It is not easy to sum the Donald up in one word, and not because he’s all that complex a guy. Common terms of derision just don’t have the concussive impact to describe an odious, superficial, cur that, if given power, almost certainly would destroy... |
JoeCarl | 10/05/2016 | 29 | 12 | - | - |
| No, NO, NO! He Deserves No Credit for Apologizing, and They Deserve No Credit for Moving Away 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 ... |
JoeCarl | 10/08/2016 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| The Imperial Donald Trump One of Trump’s favorite lines is that Hillary has been in public life for 30 years and still hasn’t prevented him from skating by without paying taxes, hasn’t solved racism, hasn’t done whatever charge crosses his petty, little mind at the time. ... |
JoeCarl | 10/09/2016 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Trump Must Lose in Epic Fashion: Too Much is at Stake This is a rework of a post I put up last December. This Sunday, 16 October, marks the 54 th anniversary of the event that was at the heart of that post. That’s a long time ago; many will feel ... |
JoeCarl | 10/12/2016 | 11 | 12 | - | - |
| Enough of Trump's Latest BIG LIE: "The Media is Against Me" 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 ... |
JoeCarl | 10/20/2016 | 6 | 8 | - | - |
| Kos Wants to Fight – Here’s One Way Kos says he wants us to fight . Given some of the comments to his post, I assume that many on this site took that to mean “with each other.” Here’s a different approach.
Trump won for all ... |
JoeCarl | 11/10/2016 | 2 | 6 | - | - |
| The Hardest Questions I’ve Ever Faced Andrew Sabl had an opinion piece in the Washington Post titled “Hate Trump if you want. But democracy requires respecting the winner’s legitimacy.” Sabl is a professor of political ethics, and his stance is echoed by President Obama. That brings a... |
JoeCarl | 11/14/2016 | 98 | 36 | - | - |
| We Have Two Years to Fix This – Maybe We have a President-Elect who is an unqualified, unscrupulous, unbalanced, and unashamedly corrupt authoritarian. News articles assigning blame for this circumstance are coming at us faster than ... |
JoeCarl | 12/02/2016 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| A Fascism Scale for Scoring Our Dear Leader 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 ... |
JoeCarl | 12/09/2016 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| How to Save the Wine: Step-by-Step Instructions from the Republican Party 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, |
JoeCarl | 12/14/2016 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Putting 2016 In Perspective A longer view can be helpful when dealing with tragedy.
1776 saw Washington chased off Long Island, up Manhattan, across New Jersey, and into Pennsylvania. Fort Washington was lost. Fort Lee ... |
JoeCarl | 12/28/2016 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Why Were Republicans So Anxious to Exhibit the Combined IQ of a Clump of Dirt? A Poll. I’ve been trying to figure out why House Republicans, in a closed meeting, on the evening of a federal holiday, against the advice of their own leadership, would gut the Office of Congressional ... |
JoeCarl | 01/04/2017 | 11 | 3 | - | - |
| Before you go, Mr. President, Fire James Comey. Julian Borger, writing for the Guardian, gives a travel log for the Trump-Russia dossier. I have not seen it laid out so clearly anywhere else, so, I have excerpted a few of the more interesting stops along the way.
“By July, the... |
JoeCarl | 01/12/2017 | 7 | 1 | - | - |
| We are Losing the Only Supreme-Court Battle We Can Win, and That Before It’s Even Begun Democrats can’t fight. I don’t know why. I’ve not seen any explanation that rings true. It’s just the way it is. Democrats get steam-rollered whenever push comes to shove or debate ... |
JoeCarl | 02/02/2017 | 46 | 6 | - | - |
| The New Republican-Russian Fellowship: Managing Cognitive Dissonance
NBC poll: 50% of Republicans, 73% of young Republicans see Russia as an “ally” or “friendly”
Had this poll been taken before the primaries, my guess is that Republicans overwhelmingly ... |
JoeCarl | 02/23/2017 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| Whatever Happened to Unions? I am old enough to know that unions once were the mainstay of the working class and the root of middle class prosperity. I remember a Democratic Party that was the home of every man and woman who worked for a living. But I continued to think of the... |
JoeCarl | 02/24/2017 | 46 | 17 | - | - |
| Whatever Happened to Unions? An Inside Job At some point, Democrats and unions went their separate ways. I wanted to know when and how. This is the second post in a series telling that story. The first can be found here.
Whatever Happened to Unions?
... |
JoeCarl | 02/25/2017 | 10 | 12 | - | - |
| Whatever Happened to Unions? The New Left At some point, Democrats and working men and women went their separate ways. I wanted to know when and how. This is the third post in a series in which I try to work through that. Previous posts can be found at the following links.
Whatever... |
JoeCarl | 02/26/2017 | 29 | 7 | - | - |
| Whatever Happened to Unions? The Right Rises Since the election, I’ve been trying to figure out when the Democratic Party separated itself from unions. This is the fourth post in a series. Previous posts can be found at the following links.
Whatever Happened to Unions?
Whatever... |
JoeCarl | 02/27/2017 | 10 | 11 | - | - |
| Whatever Happened to Unions? Ronald Reagan Since the election, I’ve been trying to figure out when the Democratic Party separated itself from working men and women. This is the fifth post in a series. Previous posts can be found at the following links.
Whatever Happened to Unions?
... |
JoeCarl | 02/28/2017 | 162 | 47 | - | - |
| Whatever Happened to Unions? Neoliberalism Since the election, I’ve been trying to figure out when the Democratic Party separated from working men and women. This is the sixth post in a series. Previous posts can be found at the following links.
Whatever Happened to Unions?
Whatever... |
JoeCarl | 03/01/2017 | 19 | 12 | - | - |
| Whatever Happened to Unions? The Democratic Leadership Council Since the election, I’ve been trying to figure out when Democrats separated from working men and women. This is the seventh post in a series. Previous posts can be found at the following links.
Whatever Happened to Unions?
Whatever Happened... |
JoeCarl | 03/02/2017 | 22 | 11 | - | - |
| Whatever Happened to Unions? Saving the Democratic Party 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... |
JoeCarl | 03/03/2017 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| So, What Did Happen to Unions? Stable realignments of the electorate do happen. Political scientists recognize 5 of them in our history, some say 6. The elections of 1980, 1994, and 2008 were hailed as realignment elections, but only by media pundits. None had legs. However, the... |
JoeCarl | 03/04/2017 | 35 | 4 | - | - |