Month: December 2016

Let’s look up Blackshirts on Wikipedia: The Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (MVSN, “Voluntary Militia for National Security”), commonly called the Blackshirts (Italian: Camicie Nere, CCNN,...

Some Cabaret Voltaire for you this week. Let’s start off with Do the Mussolini Headkick: Crackdown: Finally an early 1990s remix of 24-24: The future is now.

Oh, no, I am not ashamed for my country. Donald Trump has picked Linda McMahon, co-founder of pro wrestling company WWE, to lead his Small Business Administration, his transition team said Wednesday. The 68-year-old McMahon was...

Of course the Republicans are going to launch a new assault on unions, and it’s going to be devastating. Unions are a key pillar on the left, especially among progressives. It took me a little while to learn this. I grew...

The insurance companies finally got around to telling the Republicans what they want to see in any revision or repeal of the Affordable Care Act and I think Kevin Drum’s reaction is spot-on: Here’s the case for...