Author: TarheelDem

Victoria Nuland Does Cyprus

Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, Defend Democracy: Building Totalitarianism in Europe – The Last Coup of Victoria Nuland A Greek, who was a staffer in the office of former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, looks at the latest...

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Stupidity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer from his time in prison before his execution.  Understand that this letter is circumspect so as not to endanger the recipient and that the language of a shared faith was the means of both talking...

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Tom Sullivan – Back to Comfy Chairs

Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo: Back to Comfy Chairs Why I keep saying the donkey is dead. The Democratic Party does not yet (a month after the election) have strong resistant leadership to face down the Trump juggernaut. And Obama...

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Rules to Be Deregulated–GOP

Mark Meadows (R-NC11) published this on the Tarheel Tea Party web site.  It is the House Freedom Caucus proposal First 100 Days: Rules, Regulations, and Executive Orders to Examine, Revoke and Issue. Quite sweeping. Now the...

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Right Wing Looney Tunes

Claudia Rosset, The Hill: If Russian claws dug into US politics, Obama — not Trump — let it happen Neo-conservatives cannot fail; they can only be failed. “Claudia Rosett is Foreign Policy Fellow with the...

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