Author Archives: Andy Shanks

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.

Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

My Greatest Fear

Al Qaeda: noun, from Arabic, translation: The Base. Al Qaeda is not a single organization but rather a network of militant groups with similar interests. Osama bin Laden, using what he learned from the CIA, founded The Base to organize, … Continue reading

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A Health Care Two Parter …

Part I: Why do they fear a public insurance plan? We keep hearing that a pubic option will be far too expensive, can’t possibly work because it’s run by the Government and that it will kill the private sector health … Continue reading

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A Refutation of Reagan’s Supply Side Economics – What Trickle Down?

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. From William Butler Yeats’, The Second Coming   Besides not wanting to completely … Continue reading

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CWCs Are Not About Healthcare – Their About Profit and Defeating President Obama

Senator Jim DeMint, R SC, succinctly laid out what is important to the Republican Party on a conference call to fellow conservatives[ without conscience (CWCs)]. He said, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this (health care) it will be … Continue reading

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Who Controls and Lies About Media Control?

It’s on TV, it must be true . . . Ronald Reagan demolished the Fairness doctrine in 1983.  For those who don’t remember, the Fairness Doctrine was a program enforced by the FCC that ensured discussion of national policy matters … Continue reading

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Just call me Comrade . . .

IF you define socialism as any form of taking tax money from people to provide services and infrastructure, YOU really don’t understand what Socialism actually is. You are dependent on society and society takes care of many of your needs without you even thinking about it. Continue reading

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Stop Trickling on My Boots and Telling Me It’s Raining

“There’s class warfare, all right but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning,” Warren Buffet, CEO Berkshire Hathaway and third richest man in the United States.    In 2006 Mr. Buffet compiled a spreadsheet on … Continue reading

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Tax cuts? We don’t need no tax cuts. We don’t have to show you no stinkin’ tax cuts.

To the tune of Paul Simon’s One Trick Pony with sincerest apologies to Paul Simon. They’re a tax cut party Tax cuts are all that they can do They do tax cuts only Its the principal source of their revenue … Continue reading

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I feel just like Alan Greenspan . . .

“Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief,” Alan Greenspan testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the wake … Continue reading

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Retraction

I’ve said that there isn’t anything we can do to bring gasoline prices down in the near future.  I was wrong.   According to the Washington Post a few oil traders controlled 81% of the oil futures market driving prices … Continue reading

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Three reasons to vote Democratic

This isn’t rhetoric, friends, this is hard cold fact gathered from government websites using official census data and US Department of Treasury numbers. No bumper sticker slogans, no five second sound bites, it’s the real deal and you can double-check … Continue reading

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Domestic oil and gas production.

The Republicans blame Democrats for the high cost of gasoline, saying that if we only drilled in ANWAR we’d have enough oil to bring prices down. There are only a few problems with that. One: For 20 years Democrats have … Continue reading

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The surge is working?

I keep hearing that the “surge” is succeeding. Really? There are still 600 attacks from insurgents every month. Those attacks kill 1000 Iraqis and 70 or more US soldiers every month. This must be a definition of success with which … Continue reading

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Joe Barton says there is no climate change.

Joe Barton (R-TX) doesn’t believe that global climate change exists or if it does Man has nothing to do with it. Perhaps he should talk to the families who lost loved ones in last week’s tornados that ripped through the … Continue reading

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Our Congress at Work – They Can’t Fix National Problems, But They Can Do This …

Contrary to the whining of many, the United States was not founded by Christians or on Christian principles. As close as any of the Founding Fathers came to Christianity was George Washington who was a non-practicing Episcopalian. For the most … Continue reading

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Yellow Ribbons and Emails

On this Veterans Day there’s an email floating around suggesting we all send a Christmas card or letter to a recovering soldier at Walter Reed. Nice idea, easy to do and, sadly, pointless. Because of security concerns Walter Reed cannot … Continue reading

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So many outrages, so little time

I’ve waited a few days before writing about Bush’s veto of the SCHIP bill . Had to. Otherwise the profanity would have set off alarms in most email clients. For those not familiar, SCHIP (State Child Health Insurance Program) is … Continue reading

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