The most shocking part of the Trump triumph has been the open and unresisted entrance of the hard right, from the Ku Klux Klan to Stormfront, into the ranks of Trump supporters ( Read more... )

Christopher Dorner was clearly a firm believer in the Second Amendment. Meeting what he regarded as intolerable wrong in the state sector, he got out his gun and started shooting. If this is not what johncwright means when he says that an armed citizenship is a bulwark of freedom, I would like him to explain, because I see no other scenario.

I know that there is no reasoning with American gun nuts, and that by now they are already working on several different apologies for what follows. But to the rest of us ( Read more... )

Let's see if we can help him a bit. We have a very rich man (although Romney's wealth can be exaggerated; he is not as rich, for instance, as Berlusconi, or as the average Russian or Arab crook, or indeed as his host during the fund-raiser where "the video" was shot). We have him sitting along with very many other very rich men, who have paid a ( Read more... )

...sometimes they say things nobody else would dare. http://www.debbieschlussel.com/37629/why-are-dick-morris-americans-for-prosperity-gop-michelle-malkin-working-against-secure-borders/Read more... )

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If it is true that the Republicans are refusing to negotiate any kind of tax increase whatsoever, then they are being stupid. In times of rising state deficit, governments raise taxes. That's what they do. That's what Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe did in the (in)famous budget of 1981, one of the loci classici of Thatcherite history and one of ( Read more... )

The best thing about this is that it may at last have killed the insane Trump candidacy (I can't believe there was anyone in the Republican Party disposed to give this lecherous crook the time of day). The only good thing, in turn, about the Trump candidacy, is that it should make us Italians feel less bad about Berlusconi.

That is something I said when Bush was re-elected: the insane economic policies of his administration will no doubt end up costing the US more than it can afford and force a large-scale retreat, which, coupled with the anger Bush has managed to rouse in Europe, will result in the rise of the European Union (already involved as chief actor in the ( Read more... )

The enclosed is a column by Jack Kemp, a well-known American right-wing columnist. To put it in its proper context, it is well to remember that: in Egypt, to change one's religion is a crime; that the State persecutes Christians; that Egypt's government is as authoritarian as any other one across the region; that Egypt's ancient Christian church, ( Read more... )