Author: phronesis

In a comment to NLinStPaul’s excellent diary “Something Elections Can’t Change” I said A people are their myths.  America’s predominant myth was best defined by Richard Slotkin some thirty...

Promoted by Steven D. A wise 20th century political philospher said that human beings bear their citizenship in their particular society as a condition of actualizing their humanity.  Keep that in mind as you read further....

As we all know, the overarching mission of the Bush Administration has been the continual usurpation of federal government power by the Executive branch.   http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2006/6/19/153634/825...

The title of this diary should be the day’s first thought (well for me it will be second after “damn, my wife still has a great ass”) for all American citizens.  All of us who hop around the frog pond and...

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/52290/?page=1 While the Democrats caved on setting a timetable to end Bush’s murder of our military in Iraq and of our capability to defend ourselves against real terrorist threats, the...