Month: March 2010

Live and Let Live

The more I read about the Religious Right in this country, the more I think that Karl Marx had it wrong about religion being the opiate of the people. I don’t think it calms them, and I don’t think it puts them to...

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Midterms Preview

I wonder if this is a bluff: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said in a press briefing at the Ronald Reagan Republican Center today that his party will offer repeated points of order on the Senate floor challenging the legitimacy of...

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Bizarro World: The New Left is now Tea Party

Because of this assumption, members of the Tea Party right, like the members of the New Left, spend a lot of time worrying about being co-opted. They worry that the corrupt forces of the establishment are perpetually trying to...

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