Posts under ‘Politics’

From Jay Smooth’s Ill Doctrine, a hip hop video blog:

I don’t belong to Facebook, but I saw this posted on a forum where I hang out and thought it worth promoting. It is on Facebook and the author says, “feel free to share…” “Dear Wall Street: Wondering what all the fuss is about? Let me tell you: We gave you our blessing, and you [...]

Finally.

Several months ago, I replied to a comment on a blog that I used to frequent, but no longer do because reading that blog raises my blood pressure dangerously high. The comment was in reaction to a local zoning ordinance in the community where the blog is based and the commenter dragged in the irrelevant [...]

I watched this video, found it amusingly done, and wanted to contribute to it “going viral”. It has been watched by over 458,000 people, so far. It was uploaded by The Corbett Report. If you would like to read the transcript and click on the links in it for further information, go here.

Two years ago, I posted a piece on Labor Day. The name of this blog is Turning Points and it is indeed a record of my ongoing journey from innocence to informed opposition. As this country increasingly lurches to the right, I march ever further to the left. I’m posting this little gem, by Larry [...]

On Thursday night, Obama could have called for a transformation of our economy from financialization to a real economy. But he didn’t. He could have called for taking the money we spend on our pointless wars and using it to hire millions of the unemployed. But he didn’t. He could have said that small businesses [...]

Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of 9/11. I’m so looking forward to all of the chest-thumping and cheers of patriotic fervor. Not. For those few out there who refuse to participate in the enabling of the political class in this country to commit further war crimes and gut the body politic like the carcass of [...]

Since the bankruptcy of Lehman Bros. in October of 2008, we’ve been subjected to one shock after another and most of us have tuned out and focused on survival in a grim jobs market. That is understandable behavior, even if it is a bit unproductive, because, as the election season ramps up, Americans are at [...]

From Politico: A Standard & Poor’s director said for the first time Thursday that one reason the United States lost its triple-A credit rating was that several lawmakers expressed skepticism about the serious consequences of a credit default — a position put forth by some Republicans. Without specifically mentioning Republicans, S&P senior director Joydeep Mukherji [...]