Young People: The Key To Republican Single-Party Rule

Democrats and progressives make the mistake of thinking that today’s Social Security debate is about Social Security. It’s not. It’s about creating single party rule for a generation or more. To do that, Republicans believe they need only to grab the hearts and minds of the generation currently under 30 – and they can do [...]

Written on March 21, 2005 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »

Teresa Heinz Kerry – Hacking the “Mother Machine”?

“Two brothers own 80 percent of the [voting] machines used in the United States,” Teresa Heinz Kerry told a group of Seattle guests at a March 7, 2005 lunch for Representative Adam Smith, according to reporter Joel Connelly in an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Connelly noted Heinz Kerry added that it is “very easy [...]

Written on March 10, 2005 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »

Markings – The Enduring Spiritual Classic

Book by Dag Hammarskjöld
Review by Thom Hartmann, originally published at buzzflash.com on March 3, 2005

Written on March 4, 2005 | Posted in Books | Comments Off| Read More »

Moses Didn’t Write The Constitution

Two main arguments are being put forward these days about state-sponsored displays of the Ten Commandments. The first is that they are the basis of Anglo-Saxon law, leading to ancient British law, leading to American law. The second is that sometimes the displays of them are purely decorative, part of a larger display of other [...]

Written on March 3, 2005 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »