Author: ManfromMiddletown

We have grown used to thinking in terms of European intergration, and modern Europe is a highly intergrated market that provides an example for a regionalist alternative to mass globalization.  Mercosur is the name of the...

One of the, if not the, defining characteristic  of the State is the legitimate use of force.  To the state alone belongs the power to take human life legitimately, and even that power is tempered by a growing...

Crossposted from Dailykos President Bush goes to China this weekend, and there’s a sense that this trip could be his legacy: WASHINGTON — For the rest of the month, President Bush should forget about Scooter Libby...

You might call it historical amnesia, or maybe its just the hope that eventually people will forget what you’ve done.  But the stink of corruption and the whiff of the arrogance of power that accompanies the acolytes of the GOP still shocks me.  It takes a lot of chutzpah to suggest that Medicare recipients should be forced to pay for Hurricane Relief

“Let us have the courage to make the tough choices to find the means to pay for the cost of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath through reductions in government spending.

“Let’s do the work of rebuilding our Gulf Coast with the compassion and the fiscal discipline that the American people expect from a Republican Congress.”

Yet while our boy Mike is willing to steal money from little old ladies (clearly Mike learned a lot as a Young Republican), this (what do you call someone who sells themself for money?) man is unwilling to cough up tainted ARMPAC contributions.
More on the flipside 🙂

In all the coverage of the aftermath of Katrina I think that the fixation on the pain of suffering of the people who were left in New Orleans during and after the storm has obscured something dramatic that’s going to be a...