We are faced with the necessary conditions to make the state, and its role of protecting its citizens from any number of dangers to their rights and well-being, irrelevant.

Want to straighten out the nation’s finances, eliminate poverty, and end the income tax?

This has been a fine example of rigid, right wing ideologues adopting what could be called the Samson Option—causing incredible damage, and perishing in the attempt, just to make a point.

Faced with 27 coffins in Newtown, Ct.– 20 of them tiny—the NRA president and his Republican friends displayed the worst tin ears in American politics.

The investment used TARP funds in part to ship at least 25,000 jobs overseas and short-change pensioners. Republicans then blamed it all on the Obama Administration

Americans understand Republican policies, judge them by the result, and reject them.

The Islamic element in the Arab countries is strong because the dictators used the mosques as (they thought) safety valves

The party that gets more of their voters to the polls, convinced to vote for their guy, wins. Period.

This country can’t afford any more Republican governments steering the ship of state on the rocks.

The deal could be used as a template for other privatizations—your local Board of Education, for instance.