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What "12 Years A Slave" Has To Do With The Obama Presidency
What '12 Years a Slave' has to do with the Obama presidency. "This last weekend, I finally saw 12 Years a Slave. It was the most powerful movie I've ever seen in my life, an event so gripping and...
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Obamacare As Culture War
"[C]onservatives are wielding Obamacare the way they wielded culture war issues in the 1990s. The particulars are enormously different, but the political objectives are similar: pick an issue that both...
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What Good Is Wall Street?
"When the banking system behaves the way it is supposed to--as Pandit says Citi is now behaving--it is akin to a power utility, distributing money (power) to where it is needed and keeping an account...
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What Obama Will Soon Be Reading
President Obama, with his daughter Malia, buying books last weekend at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington.Alan: This Spring, while traveling with my 16 year old boy in Oaxaca, Mexico, I...
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Obama Reminds Young People: "Stuff That's Worth It Is Always Hard"
""Just remember, and remind your friends and your peers: Imagine what happens if you get sick. What happens with the massive bills? The people who are running those ads, they're not going to pay for...
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These People Have Been In Prison Since They Were Children
Click for other photo-stories: These people have been in jail since they were children
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Cream Being Poured Into Cup Of Coffee At 2000 Frames Per Second (VIDEO)
Click here: Coffee creamer being poured into coffee at 2000 frames per second
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130 Years Of Los Angeles Times Front Pages
Click here: 130 years of the Los Angeles Times page ones
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Bill Moyers: One In Three Bank Tellers Needs Public Assistance
Maybe the banks don't make enough to pay their workers a living wage...And...Give 'em Hell Francis!"Pope Francis Links"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html***Big banks...
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Obamacare Is A Robust Success While Republicans Lie Like Rugs. Flea-Infested...
Alan: The following fabrication was devised by Prince of Darkness concubines. It is an exercise in whole cloth falsehood - satanic misrepresentation. There is no longer a "conservative" in...
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Jon Stewart Distinguishes Between Corporations And People. Another Brilliant...
In examining the lack of accountability for corporations’ continued criminal malfeasance, Daily Show host Jon Stewart relied on the words of TV antihero Don Draper from Mad Men.“That’s what the money...
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"Of Course Corporations Are People..."
Great Jon Stewart Shtick Distinguishing Between Corporations And Peoplehttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/jon-stewart-distinguishes-between.html
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Class Warfare And The Need For Vulgar Categorization Of The Mofos At The Top
The Hard, Central Fact Of American "Conservatism"The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government...
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"The Pope As Marxist: Is Limbaugh Right?" by Robert Ellsberg
Pope Francis Expresses Economic Views Of Karl Polanyihttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-close-resemblance-between.html***STORY HIGHLIGHTSRush Limbaugh says Pope Francis sounds...
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Glenn Beck, His Catholic-Educated Daughter And Gay Rights
Glenn Beck: Tears of a Clown. A Case Study In The National Lunacyhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/glenn-beck-tears-of-clown-by-hal.html***Glenn Beck: Liberal Catholics brainwashed my...
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Georgia Insurance Commissioner: It’s ‘Your Fault’ If You Have A Pre-Existing...
Alan: If nothing else, Hudgens' candor demonstrates that "the private sector" is intrinsically incapable of providing universal health insurance. Although Mr. Hudgens may be clueless, this failure of...
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"Bowling Alone's" Robert Putman And Obama's Economic-Mobility Speech
Obama laughs with political scientist Robert Putnam before awarding him the 2012 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony at the White House on July 10, 2013.Robert Putnam, of Bowling Alone fame,...
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The Obama Administration's Gift to Industrial Chicken Production
—By Tom Philpott| Thu Dec. 5, 2013Remember the proposal that Obama's US Department of Agriculture has been pushing since spring 2012, the one that would speed up kill lines in poultry slaughterhouses...
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Colbert On Federal Legislation To Provide Free Housing, Food & Healthcare For...
Last night, Stephen Colbert led off by mocking the do-nothing 113th Congress.And you know where things are always happening, Washington, D.C., where Congress only has 10 work days left, so you know...
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The Government Is The Only Reason U.S. Inequality Is So High
Posted by Dylan Matthews on December 5, 2013While the rhetoric in President Obama's big inequality speech Wednesday was characteristically soaring, the policy proposals were largely rehashes of past...
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