Marion

125 POSTS
370 COMMENTS

OWS, You May Be Being Had

The Italian word for "secret" is segreto. Remember that. About 38 years ago, when Watergate was making a splash across the news media, one Bob Woodward was directed to California, by...

Occupy Wall Street Could Be a Seminal Moment … Or It Couldn’t

When the London (and other English cities)riots rampaged earlier this year, I read with droll amusement, the armchair activist quarterbacks' wistful comments in Huffington Post and elsewhere, basking in admiration...

Hidden Democrats

Toby Keith, Democrat, says:- I don’t know, but I expect the wealthy to write a check ’cause it’s as bad as it’s ever been. It would be unpatriotic not to try to...

The Pariahs of the Party

I truly think Californian Democratic "operative" David O Atkins needs to listen to this song:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT7CVDiCDQI If he's a good boy, drinks his milk and goes to bed early and reads...

A Word to the Whiners Redux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GFg_pnLmq4 It's ironic that this song was out around the time the Democratic Party imploded the first time. That was before most of this generation of whiners was about, so...

Remember the Working Classes?

When I was growing up in a Democratic kitchen, my parents made the difference between Democrats and Republicans abundantly clear. Keep in mind that this was in the 1960s, and...

This Year’s Model

OK, it's official. Elizabeth Warren is running for the Senate in Massachusetts. She's challenging big, bad Scott Brown, who's voted with the Democrats as much as he has his own side,...

Jimmy Hoffa’s Speech – No Sex, But Lies and Videotape Aplenty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f65xilSDyso&feature=related Did everybody hear that? Did you? Did you listen to every word? Do you know what it was? It was a good, old-fashioned labor leader exhorting a gaggle of workers...

To Those Who Are Ignorant about the Past

Loads of people love to talk about fascism coming to the United States, draped in a flag and carrying a cross. Well, maybe that's so; but I happen to...

This Is What Happens When You Don’t Vote

I usually try to get back to the Commonwealth once a year. I've lived for the past 30 years in the same part of England to which two other...