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We need to have a shift in national awareness in terms of a shared sense of emergency.

Bill Nemitz: Welcome to a day that will blemish U.S. history Sen. Angus King warns that Trump loyalists in Congress threaten our very democracy. Hes right. Remember what happens on this day. This is the day when members in both chambers of Congress, all of them Republicans, will try to stop the age-old transfer of power from one president to another. That they will fail is already a forgone conclusion. That they even tried will leave a permanent stain on our democracy. Yet, almost half of Amer...

Skooz OK, so its like this. This used to be a really nice profile page; pics galore, nice wallpapers, and if I say so my self, pretty cool. Then, Comcast deactivated the web pages of their subscribers, including me, and all the painstaking HTML was orphaned overnight. One of these days Ill get around to rebuilding this page. One of these days ... ungh!! "Will you raise or lower my taxes?" Until that question is answered, I do not hear a word they have to say. All Hail the Mighty Kansas C...

Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s famous axiom is that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It’s an even a worse thing to manufacture. Although Joe Biden obviously disagrees. Creating an unwarranted sense of drama and urgency around climate change is central to his approach — to catalyze action unsupported by the facts or common sense. In announcing his climate and energy team the other day, the president-elect declared climate change a crisis requiring a “unified national re...

“Every great cause,” said philosopher Eric Hoffer, “begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Hoffer wasn’t speaking about the Department of Education, but he could’ve been. How else to explain a 4,000-employee cabinet-level department, earnestly created by Jimmy Carter in 1979, which has continued to grow and gobble up taxpayer funds while cranking out an inarguably inferior product and being viciously resistant to reform...

I am really tired of this. This is why the left fails. Hero syndrome, halo effect (seeing people as all good or all bad) and no willingness to persist in long campaigns. No one would satisfy you and you won’t get off you butt to do anything more than bitch and moan. AOC and Sanders are inside the political system. Sanders has gotten stuff done, like bullying Amazon and McDonalds into increasing wages and getting M4A out of political Siberia as a policy proposal. AOC is one bloody Congresscri...

Andy Warhol Foundation grant to support book completion Sergio Delgado Moya, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded one of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writer Grants. Projects supported by the program address both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to critical reviews and magazine features. Moya will receive $50,000 to complete his book “An Archive of Violence: The Obscene Visuality of Sensationalism.” The book makes a case for s...

The GOP is now composed of two key constituencies: rich, entitled mofos who would as soon see America and all it stands for burn to the ground than pay one more cent in taxes; and redneck fascists who long to see an authoritarian jackboot pressed across the throat of all those they perceive as “elitists” who look down on them, but are willing to let the rich bastards run roughshod over them, if it means that they can swing their penis extenders guns around in public without people thinking...

Confessions of a limp noodle We have received a small stream of emails from readers and noted a few comments calling us out for not “standing with” President Trump and disparaging our manhood as well — this because we have not decried the “rigged” election that robbed President Trump of reelection. One professed long-time reader sent us a message announcing that he has “resigned” from the site. I particularly appreciate the imputation of cowardice to us by commenters writing from ...

Guys like charlie kirk, michelle maukin, trying to get subscriptions to their organizations. so its no longer any pretense of discussing intellectual philosophy about conservative movement. its now about really raising a brand, owning and selling your books to these people. >> guys like dan bongino sells survivalist stuff, kind of jump that people dont really need. booker, you were promoting this end the grift idea yesterday. what is it? >> you know, just on grift, eric hoffer, intellectual from...