Frightening piece by David Glenn Cox, and in one very important respect I think he’s absolutely correct:
When you overlay a 1930’s style depression on our current society you begin to see just how important the New Deal was. It cooled tempers and gave hope to the poor. Today, however, the New Deal was issued to […]

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Helluva pic and letter over at Sullivan’s:

Of course they are screaming ’socialism’. They’ve been doing that since the 50s at least. They’re not talking about economic redistribution of wealth - they never have been. They’ve been talking about redistribution of privilege this whole time. They called MLK a communist because he wanted blacks to have […]

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Ross Douthat’s defense of Palin in the NYT has been making the rounds, and I have to say that I don’t disagree with certain aspects of it:
One hopes that was intentional. A Sarah Palin who stepped down for the sake of her family and her media-swarmed state deserves sympathy even from the millions of Americans […]

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I’ve been picking up on this as well:
Even though the crises facing the financial and automotive industries were born primarily of the actions (or inaction) of those in positions of power in private industry and in government, many conservative media figures have assigned blame to specific groups of less wealthy or less influential people — […]

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You know, why must we over-analyze everything?
So here we have a Reuters piece about how Hillary’s gas tax holiday business was a big gift to Obama in Indiana and N.C. - which it undoubtedly was. The trouble begins when Reuters attempts to tell us why:
The fight, which dominated the final days before the North Carolina and […]

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Thomas Frank in the WSJ, who deserves to be quoted at length:

It is by this familiar maneuver that the people who have designed and supported the policies that have brought the class divide back to America – the people who have actually, really transformed our society from an egalitarian into an elitist one – perfume […]

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