Simon Kuper on the debacle that is the 2014 World Cup: You would have thought that people would learn from the shame of the South Africa World Cup; from the way FIFA forced a developing country to build unnecessary stadiums fancy enough for sponsors, while a few miles away people lived in corrugated-iron shacks But […]
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Perhaps it’s those on the left who should be donning their tin foil hats. Connor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic: Critiques of democracy are as old as the excesses of the Athenian variety. Here’s a classic: The unmediated masses are as capable of doing an injustice as any aristocracy or tyrant. In America, it’s acceptable to […]
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I wonder how long it will take for Mr. Guillory to be labeled an Uncle Tom/house nigger/lawn jockey. WND: A state senator from Louisiana who recently announced his departure from the Democratic Party to become a Republican says the party of President Obama is one of “overseers.” State Sen. Elbert Guillory released a video Sunday […]
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Yep. I’d say that Mr. Bunch has hit the nail on the head. Look: No one is telling you that you can’t boycott people who vote a way you don’t care for. No one’s telling you it should be illegal for you to say you won’t support someone because they dared disagree with some stance […]
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I am shocked to hear that the FBI has used the PATRIOT Act vastly more under Obama when looking in to things that have dick with terror. Shocked, I tell you.
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It’s okay to foist Obamacare and its many added costs on to the private sector, but not on to those who brought it about? Politico: Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting. […]
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Glenn Greenwald at The Guardian concerning a functioning, democratic society: The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals. This dynamic – the […]
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GMO Crops: shown to make poor people not poor and not hungry. Controlling for other factors, the adoption of GM cotton has significantly improved calorie consumption and dietary quality, resulting from increased family incomes. This technology has reduced food insecurity by 15–20% among cotton-producing households. So GMO crops help people have more income and eat […]
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The mass corruption and continuous shredding of our rights isn’t the perceived problem, but the leaks which expose them. If you’re so worried about leaks, perhaps you ought not engage in tactics that repulse those who have knowledge of said tactics that they feel it their moral obligation to leak it.
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Kristen Breitweiser at Huffington Post: For years during the Bush administration, many groups fought against the Patriot Act and its illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens. They screamed about pre-emptive war based on lies. They questioned illegal “detainment” of “enemy combatants.” They were horrified by torture and extraordinary renditions. They fought for the sanctity and protection […]
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