Robert Reich and the Liberal Myth of Wasted Votes
I recently had a friend post the following post written by Robert Reich, the author of Beyond Outrage, pleading for people to vote for Obama and save the country. His post has slowly...
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Binders Full of Women – Presidential Debate Memes
That’s right folks, here is my vote for the 2nd Presidential Debate memes, going to Governor Romney. The full context of his comments were as follows: Mitt Romney during Hofstra Townhall responding to...
Post-racial US myths
Just some random examples I ran across recently debunking the idea of a post-racial US… Found while looking for inspiring political speeches on YouTube tonight. Found on the sidewalk in Greenpoint, Brooklyn this...
2016: Deconstructing Dinesh D’Souza’s Right Wing Fantasies
[Updated 9/25/12 with extended fact checking of film at end of post] This post offers a media analysis and political commentary on Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie 2016: Obama’s America. I had assigned both...
“You Didn’t Build That” – Perpetuating the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Andrew Cline had a recent article in The Atlantic where he attacks Obama for a recent campaign speech where Obama made the following remark: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build...
The Carbon Cowboy or Why Frontier Justice Requires Machetes and Spears
It’s not often that I find myself making such a suggestion, but the would would be a better place if Australian real estate developer and moral disease David Nilsson suddenly “disappeared” while...
