Category Archives: Authoritarianism

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 →

Big Banks Try to Stop Help for Struggling Homeowners – Big banks, scrambling to prevent the government from forcing them to rewrite mortgages for struggling homeowners, are using their lobbying clout to press the Obama administration and Congress to scale … Continue reading →

Joe Barton Too Busy Tweeting to Pay Attention to President’s Speech; Blames It On a Staffer – During President Obama’s address to Congress, there was Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), in whose name this text message was sent at about the … Continue reading →

John Boehner Complains About Non-Existent Stimulus Bill Las Vegas High-Speed Rail Project – The madness continues on the right-wing’s crusade against a mythical high-speed rail to Las Vegas project that Harry Reid is alleged to have snuck into the stimulus … Continue reading →

Conservative Columnist Makes Stuff Up About Global Warming – Syndicated columnist George Will presents only one piece of evidence in his Sunday piece denying global warming — and he gets it wrong. Will writes: As global levels of sea ice … Continue reading →

Stimulus Package Weakened – What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses? A … Continue reading →

  Republican Silliness Goes Way Back – Air and Simple Gifts is a classical quartet by American composer John Williams composed for the January 20, 2009, inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States. The source piece is … Continue reading →

The Neoconservative [Bush] Administration’s Bad Deeds Master List – An assessment of the 128 executive branch failures since 2000. • Consumers & Workers Limited Ability To Block Dangerous Imports FDA Enforcement Actions Way Down USDA Challenged Over Meat Safety Lack … Continue reading →

Conservative Lies Keep Coming Even After the Election – Consider some of the bogus claims debunked just since Election Day: It’s not true that unionized auto workers at Detroit’s Big Three make more than $70 an hour, as claimed by … Continue reading →

Conservatives Advocate Punching, Tasing Protestors – Do you remember when Free Speech was honored in America? It seems that Conservatives would rather replace it with bullying and violence. Is that the future we want? Conservative author Ann Coulter said Republicans … Continue reading →