Archive for January 2018

By Luke Haines, British Editor There’s a tiresome habit these days of racists pretending that they’re shocked by racism, as though feigning surprise will serve as a solution in an of itself. The most recent offenders are the people over at UKIP, the UK Independence Party. Think of them as sort of a British Tea…

By Luke Haines, British Editor Chances are, you’ve never been part of one of the big, expensive gestures that sometimes trend online. I’m talking about the people who buy cars so that their colleagues don’t have to walk to work, or people who tip servers an exorbitant amount. You’re probably not one of those people,…

By Michael Jay Tucker I have recently run across something that rather worries me…specifically, it has to do with the power (or lack there-of) of the Blue States, and of those of us who live in them. It’s like this: like most of us, Right or Left, I’m sort of unconsciously an economic determinist. Like…

By Luke Haines, British Editor Donald Trump has reportedly complained that too many immigrants to America are from “shithole countries.” You know the kind. The ones in Africa or South America. The ones that have a lot of brown people and who let themselves get colonised by the west like a bunch of pussies instead…

By Bill Albee and Van Newstrom How can the Democrats save DACA when the Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House?  There is a way and it can happen next week.   On Friday the 19th, Congress must pass a budget extension or the Government will shut down.  The Republicans know they need…

By Michael Jay Tucker So I’m a little uneasy about writing this one. There is a chance that I’ll lose friends, because of it—particulalry among Democratic Party stalwarts, who may think I am being divisive at a time when we desperately need unity. But, here goes anyway. I fear that the Left in general, and…

By Michael Jay Tucker One of the most fascinating (and chilling) things about the new Republican Tax bill is that it isn’t really about taxes. It is about hurting Democrats. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the whole point of the bill was to whack the Democrats and Blue Staters that voted against Trump, and…

By Luke Haines, British Editor The race to the bottom between America and the UK continues apace. We commit economic suicide, you elect a sub-moron as leader. We suffer for years under the right wing propaganda of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers, you guys give him an entire TV network to lie through. It’s just embarrassing all…

By Michael Jay Tucker This is the story of a book, a pair of battling fools, and how we seem to have arrived at yet another Constitutional Crisis. And it is all the more complicated because it started off as a comedy …only farce turned to tragedy in a matter of hours. The comedy part:…

By James Carter We own all the money—we will own the land The Courts and the Congress are at our command. Our fortunes have gone up like beautiful rockets’ We’ve the Dems and the Republican both in our pockets; And to please the fool people, we make our salam, And let them choose either—we don’t…