Bush Fails History…Jefferson Predicted Iraq

Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon thought they could bomb Vietnam into accepting democracy. George W. Bush thinks he can do it with Iraq. But the first American president to consider how best to grow democracies – Thomas Jefferson – had some very different thoughts on the issue. LBJ and Bush would have done well to [...]

Written on April 20, 2004 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »

Exposing the Conservative Straw Man – “Productivity”

Thomas Jefferson wrote in a September 28, 1821 letter, “The government of the United States, at a very early period, when establishing its tariff on foreign importations, were very much guided in their selection of objects by a desire to encourage manufactures within ourselves.” Conservatives don’t want you to know this, and – even more [...]

Written on April 11, 2004 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »

How Democratic Is the American Constitution?

Book by Robert A. Dahl
Review by Tim King and Thom Hartmann, originally published at buzzflash.com on April 8, 2004.

Written on April 8, 2004 | Posted in Books | Comments Off| Read More »