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Political Culture: America – Too Big To Fail?
How did the Tea Party force a stupid deal, prove itself unfit to govern ... AND simultaneously send the economy over a cliff? Jon Cummings spots the jokers in the deck.
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… Absolute Double-Dip — We Are Going There
In spite of what the financial pundits say, Popdose's Dw. Dunphy says double-dip recession is not only possible, but inevitable
Read More »Political Culture: Absolutism Sucks! (Relatively Speaking)
Conservatives now claim the Constitution as their own -- yet couldn't bring themselves to read it in its entirety on the House floor. Jon Cummings examines the flaws of Tea Party-brand strict constructionism
Read More »Political Culture: The Not-So-Great Society
Now is the summer of our discontent … arriving on the heels of a spring, winter, autumn and previous summer that roiled in similar fashion. Americans, it seems, have declared open season upon one
Read More »Political Culture: Reasons to Be Hopeful (Or Not) on Tax Day
Happy Tax Day! A special shout-out to those of you who are operating under the delusion that your taxes have gone up this year – a belief shared by a slim majority of Americans,
Read More »Political Culture: How To Train Your Teafoxlican
We’re supposedly just three days away from the final House votes on health care, and still nobody’s sure how it’s going to go. If you listen to Fox News, there’s no way Nancy Pelosi
Read More »Political Culture: Ayn Rand Takes a (Midas) Mulligan
When I was a senior in college, instead of prepping for a career as a Rand-ian Master of the Universe with high-level courses in economics or engineering, I chose a pair of classes in
Read More »Political Culture: A Liberal Reads Ayn Rand
Objectivism is back, baby! Don’t take my word for it – just check out this cover of the libertarian monthly Reason, which offers up a freaky old Audrey Hepburn-meets-the-wicked-witch photo of the philosophy’s founding
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