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You may have noticed, I’m burned out: on news, lies (but I repeat myself), society in general and progressive society in particular. So until further notice feel free to discuss such topics amongst yourselves. I’ve decided to go in a different direction. Specifically… I understand there are rules, the first of which is “begin your post titles #TBT” which I’ve already broken. Here are the rest:Again, feel free to break any or all of them. All subjects will be considered eligible, such as:Art:From the way-back before artists hated America.A Corn Street, Boston, 1919, Childe HassamThe Avenue in the Rain, New...

Michael Bloomberg’s $40 million spending splurge on politics for this year’s election taught him a lesson for 2016: You get a much better bang for your buck by trying to tip state and local elections than high-profile federal ones. So as the former New York mayor turned activist for gun control, healthier food choices, education reform, and other issues makes his spending plans for the next two years, he plans to weight his contributions more toward ballot measures, governor and school-board candidates, and away from House and Senate races, which have become glutted with outside money. “You can keep hitting...

"Arguing with liberals...it's like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board and strut around like it's victorious." -- Anonymous "If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said — unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you...

Vice President Biden rolled into Milford, Ohio, Sunday,September 9, to speak at public Milford High School to a crowd of about 200 Democrats in the school cafeteria. The TEA PARTY was there to meet him, and his followers.

Most of us at some point has worked for an overbearing and abusive employer. We all know the type - the loud, overbearing, unreasonable, and obnoxious boss who seems to delight in making your working life miserable. But what if that person was a member of Congress? According to an article at The Daily Caller, Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee is just such an employer. The in-depth seven-part article, entitled Congressional bosses from Hell: Sheila Jackson Lee details the horrors experienced by those who work for the Democrat. For example, one staffer recounts constantly being called "you stupid m*****f****r." Jonathon...

A biography of late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley might be turned into a movie, reports Blabbermouth.net. A press release from Arts Publications indicated that Argentinean journalist Adriana Rubio has been contacted by Philadelphia-based filmmaker Eric Moyer about making a film version of her book, Layne Staley: Get Born Again. Moyer said in a statement, "I am determined to make this film about Layne Staley, not only to celebrate his life and talent, but to warn others through his compelling story that heroin will kill you...no matter who you are." Staley died in April of 2002 after struggling with...

The first edition of George W. Bush's administration was all about a destructive and disastrous foreign policy for which the American people will be paying for a long time. Now comes the second edition, the focus now is on domestic policy, and the plan is to apply the tried and true methods of fear mongering and deception used to sell the Iraq war in order to stampede the American people into going along with a neoconservative domestic agenda against their own best interests. The war this time will be waged on American soil, and the regime to be crushed is...