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Meet the Party of American Capitalism
Perrspectives
Jan 29President Obama, Mitt Romney has declared repeatedly, "believes America should become a European-style welfare state." While Newt Gingrich warned of the Democrats' "secular-socialist machine," Rick Santorum insisted "President Obama is for income equal... »
The GOP Misstate of the Union
Perrspectives
Jan 25The least surprising element to Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union address was the Republican talking point that the President's policies have "made our economy worse." Speaker John Boehner regurgitated that point five times during his pre-buttal o... »
Happy Birthday, Maria Tallchief
The Solipsistic Me
Jan 24Happy Birthday, Maria Tallchief. Tallchief was the first Native American, indeed the first American, to achieve the title Prima Ballerina. She was with the New York City Ballet from 1947-1965. Her father was Alexander Joseph Tallchief, a Chief of the O... »
The Epic Failure of Republican Trickle Down Economics
Perrspectives
Dec 07When President Obama on Tuesday declared that decades of Republican trickle-down economics "never worked," conservatives were predictably apoplectic. But for all of their protests of "class warfare", "socialism" and worse, Obama was being kind to the R... »
Bahá'u'lláh, Yuri Andropov, Naomi Wolf
NW Republican
Nov 12On this day: November 12Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union (1927) The Oregon Highway Division attempts to... »