Category Archives: Democracy

Iconoclastically applying Mary’s geologist handle to The Donald

Posted on August 24, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters after his rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on August 21, 2015 in Mobile, Alabama. The Trump campaign moved tonight’s rally to a larger stadium to accommodate demand. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty … Continue reading →

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Plunder the Lox: Trump would let Daesh sack Rome

Posted on August 22, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “I’d say ISIS wants to get you,” Trump said. “You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican? You have heard that. You know, that’s a dream of theirs, to go into Italy.” … Continue reading →

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Losing it at the movies is now so much 19th Century Security Theatre

Posted on August 19, 2015 by ann li-summers

New literal forms of Security Theater make going to the movies so 19th Century where life is a panopti-diorama, old chum. By ann summers From the theatrical large-scale hand-cranked diorama giving urbanized music hall culture new life to the post-WWII … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Art, Capitalism, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Democracy | 14 Comments

How posse comitatus or Commadus’s posse is already here

Posted on August 15, 2015 by ann li-summers

by ann summers Regardless of the degree of derangement, lone gunmen are always the decentralized form of terror, whether domestic manslaughter or random carnage. The problem despite some neologistic tendencies by the MIC to organize fear or procurement of weapons … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Capitalism, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Courts, Crime, Criminal Law, Democracy | 8 Comments

The Election of 2016 is a remake of Arsenic and Old Lace

Posted on August 8, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers What if Strindberg wrote Hellzapoppin’ or as we’ve seen, 10 Downing Street wrote a memo about WMDs or President Obama gave Syria away like the Sudetenland with the current Iran Nuke deal? With all due respect to … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Capitalism, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Countries, Democracy | Tagged | 7 Comments

BREAKING NEWS: Is Hillary Clinton Just More Of The Same Old Pay To Play Politics?

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Gene Howington

by Gene Howington There are many Clinton supporters who tout her as a bonafide progressive bent on reform that will/should benefit all citizens and not just the usual host of monied interests. Despite this, she has been fighting off both … Continue reading →

Posted in Breaking News, Democracy, DNC, Economic Policy, Equal Rights, Hypocrisy, Presidential Elections, Progressives, Wall Street | Tagged , , , , | 53 Comments

From the Equal Justice Institute: “Slavery to Mass Incarceration”–An Animated Short Film by Artist Molly Crabapple

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro On Tuesday, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) released a new video–an animated short film by acclaimed artist Molly Crabapple, with narration by Bryan Stevenson–that “paints slavery in the stark terms in which it existed…hundreds of years in … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Art, Civil War, Democracy, Equal Rights, Government, Justice, Political Science, Racism, Short Video, Society, United States | Tagged , | 6 Comments

Picture of the Day for July 5, 2015: Regarding the Separation of Church and State

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

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Posted in American History, Constitutional Law, Democracy, Government, John Adams, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, United States | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Lacking Grace: Flag mania trumps loss of Faith in a free market for symbols

Posted on June 29, 2015 by ann li-summers

By: Ann Summers “They got a goddamn day for Confederate flags. This is some bullshit!” says the (presumably black) man filming this video And just when you’re wondering how long this line of assholes in lifted trucks can possibly be, … Continue reading →

Posted in Barack Obama, Christianity, Civil War, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Courts, Democracy | 136 Comments

Quote of the Day for June 26, 2016: Justice Kennedy’s Beautiful Closing Paragraph of the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

Posted by Elaine Magliaro Jordan Weissmann of Slate said that Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, who authored the Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the United States, “is sometimes made fun of for his notoriously purple prose.” He said that today, … Continue reading →

Posted in Constitutional Law, Courts, Democracy, Equal Rights, Government, Homosexual Rights, Jurisprudence, Justice, SCOTUS, Society, United States | Tagged , , , , | 45 Comments