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Yet another chapter from Michael J. Smith’s online book, Stop Me Before I Vote Again. In this chapter, Smith implies why it is so important to vote for third parties – they drag the consensus away from what the duopoly says is reality. Read it and then think about the effects of the controversy over [...]

Make that Happy Friggin’ New Year. Your president just signed the indefinite detention act and sold your rights, both civil and legal, right down the damn river. Indefinite detention for American citizens is now the law. And of course, the man you worship as a hero did the dastardly act on New Year’s Eve, when [...]

I am so very impressed with Michael J. Smith’s online book, Stop Me Before I Vote Again. I’ve encountered much opposition to my decision to vote for Ron Paul in the Republican primary (how dare you!!) and for my decision to vote for a third party in the general election next fall. But I’m unmoved [...]

I’ve posted before on this topic, asking why people consistently vote against their own self-interests. My conclusion in the past has been the same as that of Annie, in the following article. Lots of liberals and progressives have shared our opinion. I never had an answer to my own question – my response was an [...]

Happy Holidays!

There is a movement building for progressives to temporarily change their voter registration from whatever party they are registered as to Republican, so they can vote for Ron Paul in the Republican primary. The idea is that if Ron Paul is the nominee, Barack Obama will be forced to defend his war mongering and unconstitutional [...]

When I tell people that I refuse to vote for Obama, they somehow think that I am going to vote for Ron Paul or some other moral cretin endorsed by the Republican Party. What is it about this country’s people that they think their options are so limited that they can only pick between two [...]

Would anyone care to educate me as to who appointed President Obama chief judge, jury, and executioner?? For those who don’t know what I’m referring to, please read Glenn Greenwald’s opinion on the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. Be sure and read the comments, too – they are quite illuminating. Oh, and after reading [...]

As furious as I am with the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (93-7 in the Senate and 322-96 in the House) and as unimpressed as I am with Obama’s pledge to veto the bill, I overlooked one thing until I read Paul Craig Roberts’ incisive analysis of the Machiavellian scheming of the Obama [...]

I’ve been waiting for a column like this from some well-known writer for a long time. Perhaps Chris Hedges isn’t well-known to you, but he has an audience on the left, where I live. For a long time, I have asked myself why those on the left have such a problem with the message of [...]