Oct 10, 2013 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, History, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: mic (October 10, 2013) Before you ask, I present the definition of "snollygoster," courtesy of TheFreeDictionary.com: One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles. While not born of this...
Oct 2, 2013 | Conservativism, Democrats, Economic Policy, History, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Originally Published: PolicyMic (March 8, 2012) Republished on PolicyMic (October 2, 2013) as "Government Shutdown Question: Would the Founding Fathers Fight Liberalism?" Editor's Note:Although this article was originally published on March 8, 2012, we felt it would...
Oct 1, 2013 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, History, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: mic (October 1, 2013) It would be nice if Republicans would occasionally listen to the words of their party's first president. Abraham Lincoln, February 27, 1860: "Under all these circumstances, do you really feel yourselves justified to break up this...
Sep 25, 2013 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: mic (September 25, 2013) After 21 hours of orating, Senator Ted Cruz's one-man jeremiad against Obamacare has officially come to an end. What in the world are we to make of it? Certainly the punditocracy has not come up short on feedback. Top Republicans...
Aug 25, 2013 | Centrism, Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Economic Policy, Health Care Reform, History, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: mic (August 25, 2013) On the centennial year of his birth, a renaissance of interest has occurred about President Richard Nixon. First came Penny Lane's documentary Our Nixon, which compiles home movies shot by the 37th president's closest aides as a way of...
Aug 20, 2013 | Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Economic Policy, History, Race and Racism
Published: mic (August 20, 2013) As liberals prepare to celebrate President Benjamin Harrison's birthday today .... I'm sorry? Most people don't know that August 20 is Harrison's birthday, much less care? Well, that certainly is a pity. After all, if it wasn't for...
Jun 28, 2013 | Economic Policy, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Health Care Reform, Immigration, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, Political Parties, Republicans, Salon.com
Published: mic (June 28, 2013) While most liberals remember the exact moment when Barack Obama became a national figure — i.e., his delivery of the Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention — few recall that one of the central messages of that...
May 23, 2013 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Race and Racism
Published: mic (May 23, 2013) There are days that call for history lessons, and while most liberals don't realize it, we should definitely insist on May 22 being one of them. After all, it was 49 years ago yesterday that President Lyndon Baines Johnson intoned these...
Nov 30, 2012 | Democrats, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Political Parties, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (November 30, 2012) I have no idea whether Mitt Romney will ever see this editorial. While I do know at least one of my articles was noticed by the erstwhile Republican candidate's inner circle (a piece from six months ago that drew complaints...
Nov 29, 2012 | Class Issues, Conservativism, Economic Policy, Extremism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (November 29, 2012) The impending so-called "fiscal cliff" has not been kind to Grover Norquist. As political junkies are well aware, the conservative lobbyist who founded Americans for Tax Reform is best known for pressuring Republican...