Since the economic collapse in 2008 and the rise of the Obama candidacy, and then presidency, our nation has seen a significant increase in race baiting. This repugnance came to the forefront this week when Andrew Breitbart released a deceptively edited video purporting to show an African-American department of agriculture employee boasting to the NAACP [...]
If you ever spend any time with real American communists — meaning Americans who actually theorize, think, and believe that Marx, Engels, Mao, etc. were really on to something with the whole end of private property, communal production, simple class-struggle thing, and not those who simply get labeled communists because they believe in a social [...]
Earlier this month Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote something which I think resonates throughout recent history and succinctly describes our current situation. In his July 1st column he wrote:
When I was young and naïve, I believed that important people took positions based on careful consideration of the options. Now I know better. Much [...]