Like several other states, Pennsylvania now has a voter ID law, which requires voters to show a photo ID before they will be permitted to vote. While the new Pennsylvania law doesn’t take effect until the November elections, voters for the April 24 primary were asked for ID as a “dry run“, although lack of an ID at the primary did not disqualify anyone from voting. Continue reading
“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity . . . They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.”—Frantz Fanon Albert Einstein correctly noted that theRead the Rest…
So-called newly democratic Egypt is suffering from too many cooks. Even so, whatever meal they are likely to produce will ultimately be seasoned by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that has appointed itself as the country’s interior and exterior protector. Continue reading
In this election year, the most important companies to watch are two you’ve probably never heard of—Smartech and Triad. Continue reading
History is both a guide into the past and an important unfinished road map for the present and future. Continue reading
The sudden and equally baffling high profile wife of Mitt Romney now says we don’t know her husband. One wonders how well she knows him given that he changes his positions on issues about as often as he changes his socks. Continue reading
I have to admit it. I’m a huge fan of the Respect Party’s ‘Gorgeous’ George Galloway. He’s a larger-than-life straight-talker who stands tall among so many nondescript mealy-mouthed British politicians, their lips sewn up by political correctness. So when I heard he’d beaten back his Conservative, Labour, Lib-Dem, UKIP and Green Party competitors to grab West Yorkshire’s Bradford West parliamentary seat, I scared the dog by letting out an involuntary deafening, “You go George!” Continue reading
With less than eight months to go before the next presidential election, political chatter among the candidates is ramping up and serious political discourse is declining. All the while, the corrupt government machine is taking advantage of a populace distracted by the political theater to advance agendas that are completely at odds with the nation’s fiscal, legislative and constitutional priorities. Indeed, the process of voting and electing a new president has become little more than an expensive, sophisticated ruse designed to deceive us into thinking we actually have a say in what happens in our government. However, the sad fact is that the United States government has ballooned into an overreaching, out-of-control bureaucracy accountable to no one in particular—not Congress or the president and least of all the taxpayers. Continue reading
It’s the beginning of April, and that means I just finished celebrating New Year’s Eve, and will soon begin shopping for Valentine’s gifts. In a month or two, I may even get around to toasting St. Patrick. Continue reading
Former governor of Massachusetts and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has more than his fair share of good looks and personal charm, not to mention oodles of cash stashed away in the Cayman Islands, far from the prying eyes of the Internal Revenue Service. Continue reading
A small but determined party, the Canadian Action Party, and its leader, Christopher Porter, are giving the big boys a run for their money in NDP leader Jack Layton’s old seat of Toronto/Danforth. The Canadian Action Party (CAP) was founded in 1997 by former Liberal Defense Minister Paul Hellyer. Continue reading
(WMR)—A source with close connections to the GOP has revealed to WMR that the 2004 presidential election, which saw votes for Democratic candidate John Kerry flipped to George W. Bush primarily in Ohio, used election “engineering” technology previously used by the CIA in eastern and central Europe and some western European countries like Sweden to ensure the results wanted by the United States. Continue reading
The 2012 U.S. presidential election is the first one to be held under the new electoral financing rule decreed by a majority of five on the Roberts Supreme Court on January 21, 2010. With this fateful decision, the Roberts Supreme Court really changed the meaning of the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution that says, “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union . . .” and decided on its own to change it for “We, the rich corporations of America . . .” Continue reading
Amazingly, orangutans now use iPads to paint and video conference. And, if the old maxim Neanderthals have more fun is true, then we should be having more fun, too. After all, orangutans may be our closest relatives. Continue reading
In his “Clear the Air” segment, MSNBC anchor Martin Bashir recently compared Rick Santorum to an Orwellian dictator and noted that the former Pennsylvania senator regularly “sounds like a theocrat.” Mr. Bashir is, of course, correct, but I think there’s a better comparison. Rick Santorum acts and sounds very much like the theofascist High Chancellor Adam Sutler in the 2005 film V for Vendetta. Continue reading
Americans, whether in large numbers or small, will dutifully march to the polls in November and the majority will cast ballots for either the candidate from Column A or the candidate from Column B. If the majority feel they cast their votes for the Column A candidate and the Column B candidate is declared the winner, they will be stunned, as they were in 2000 and 2004. Continue reading
Salafist (excuse me, “deeply Catholic”) Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum appears back in the race for chief elephant after trouncing Mitt Romney in Minnesota. But beware: Minnesotans are an unpredictable lot, with the only black Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison, their own Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and, of course, 9/11 Truther and wrestler-Governor Jesse Ventura (1999–2003). Continue reading
Reversing the Supreme Court’s gift of constitutional rights to corporations in Citizens United will not cure the political ills weakening the sinews of democracy that bind the United States. The nation was infected at birth and it will continue to be diseased until its government is transformed into one that is responsive to the needs and ambitions of ordinary people, irrespective of wealth or influence. Continue reading
One can fake many things in life, even an orgasm, but one can’t fake military experience. Mitt Romney has never been in the military. Continue reading
While Liberia could afford an election in which President Ellen Johnson ran unopposed, the people of the country have neither electricity nor running water. Continue reading
Why am I so sick of all the media attention to the Republican presidential primaries and all the blabbering about President Obama’s advantages and disadvantages for the coming election? I just cannot get excited. My answer may also be yours: No matter who wins, our nation loses. Continue reading
“Cuba will be free” has been the political battle-cry promise by politicians residing in or visiting Florida, not just Republicans but their not quite identical twins, Democrats. It’s a tradition that goes back to the massive naturalization days which took place during the latter part of the decade which followed the Bay of Pigs’ failed invasion. Expecting Romney and Gingrich to adhere to that time-tested cause was a no-brainer for the top two current contenders for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Continue reading
Without fundamental systemic change, there is in reality, no change at all. Continue reading
Newt Gingrich’s attack on what he calls “the elite media” during last Thursday night’s South Carolina debate reminds me of another high profile Republican’s invective against the major media, Spiro T. Agnew. Continue reading
In current American politics, money and wars of aggression abroad seem to rule the day. When a candidate’s fortune turns sour, the natural reflex is to spend millions in negative ads to destroy adversaries and/or to issue hawkish policy statements with the promise to start new wars abroad and even to rekindle old ones. The motto seems to be that “If you destroy me with your negative ads; I will destroy you with mine.” This is truly amazing. Continue reading
It took two stolen US presidential elections and the prospect of another one coming up in 2012. Continue reading
The trick to maintaining the US delusional democracy is feeding the illusion for citizens that voting and elections really matter. But when both major parties are owned by rich and corporate elites it matters less than most people think whether Republicans or Democrats win and control Congress or the White House. Their seeming differences are a clever distraction that keeps fooling and manipulating Americans. With the help of the mainstream media, making entertainment out of political races, Americans are deceived into thinking that elections deserve their respect and participation. Continue reading
Have you ever looked at someone in a high position only to wonder how on earth they got their job, let alone managed to hold onto for so long? The Republican Party’s front-running presidential candidate is a glaring example of such a person. Newt Gingrich is a seasoned politician and former speaker of the US House of Representatives. He has authored 23 books and was named “Man of the Year’ by Time Magazine. He is also no stranger to scandal. Continue reading
Newt Gingrich is no doubt a revolutionary political thinker. Continue reading
Since Gingrich has essentially been the template for Republican politics since the days of Ronald Reagan, there are a few things you might want to consider, if you haven’t already, about a fellow who’s been as close to Mount Rushmore for nearly as long as any president whose face is already carved there. Continue reading
Unification of the Tea Party and Occupy movements for a common goal—a Voters’ Rights Amendment—will reestablish the United States as a democratic republic and will restore control of its government to the voters. Continue reading
On Monday millions of Egyptians went home with a purple fingertip. A people who have never experienced free and fair elections in their lives were keen to participate in round one of a 12-round parliamentary electoral process scheduled to last four months. Continue reading
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