Americans Elect feels like a Koch-Brothers-type Tea Partying of the Left and Indies. Exploit the anger and frustration of the constituency and drive them together under a populist tent...that's in fact owned by the wealthy.
The truth is that I am not political, at least in the sense that I don't support any parties or candidates (though I did fight a zoning law once to be able to create the Earth in a non-residential area).
Ron Paul isn't just a fanatic Ayn Rand devotee like the son he claims he didn't name after her... in fact, that is the least of his shortcomings.
 The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we...
  Let's just let these facts speak for themselves... more to come. First, a few gems from the man who wants access to "the button"; “I have...
This morning, I kicked a foul-mouthed woman off my Facebook page. She was a totally unreconstructed PUMA, who posted this article from the UK...
Would you rather be pushed off into the sea on an ice floe or hit by a train? This is not so much a literal choice of ways to die as it is a figurative choice for voters in electing either Mitt Romney or Rick Perry.

Attitude Problem

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I was born a Democrat. My parents were Democrats before me. My father cast his first vote at 21 in 1936, for FDR. Four...
According to Rick Perry, Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional, the Earth is 6,000 years old, women were created from Adams rib, the Statue of Liberty is a demonic idol and the Constitution says that this is a "Christian Nation".
Calls for a presidential primary challenger seem to fall into common messaging traps that don't help progressives on the whole.

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