Marc is a writer, progressive activist, English writing teacher and an opinionated smart-aleck. He has a masters in International Conflict Analysis. He can be found taking notes at the Jefferson memorial in Washington DC.
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Over the last several weeks, the NRA and its surrogates have, at various points, told people of each of the major ethnic groups in America—white, Black, Hispanic and Asian—that they need guns to protect them from the others. On January … Continue reading →
Posted in Gun Control, Politics
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Tagged campaign donations, campaign finance, Charles Manson, Colion Noir, gun control, gun violence, Guns, Lindsey Graham, race, racism, tags: NRA, Wayne LaPierre
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Regarding the upcoming sequester, Rush Limbaugh said he is ashamed of his country. He alleges that this is because more people believe the Democrats’ version of how we got to this point than the Republicans’. Given that the GOP Congress … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Politics, Republican Propaganda Machine, Republican War on Women, Rush Limbaugh, The Wealthy, Wall Street, Wars
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Tagged ashamed, budget, cuts, George Orwell, lies, military spending, Obama, President Barack Obama, republican lies, rush limbaugh, sequester, shame, spending
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“…men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.” –Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America In 2007, a teenager in a depressed county of Northeastern Pennsylvania, recently bereft of … Continue reading →
Posted in ALECexposed, Arizona Shenanigans, Banks and Finance, Barack Obama, Border Security, Campaign Finance Laws, Campaigns, Capitalism, Congress, Corporate donors, Corporate Greed, Corporations, Crime & Punishment, Deregulation, Economic Justice, Economic Policy, Education, Employment, Ethics, Financial Collapse, Government, Gun Control, Human Rights, Immigration, Incarceration, Income Inequality, Justice, Labor Unions, Liberals, NRA, Politics, Poverty, Progressives, Racial Issues, September 11, State Legislation, Students, superPACs, Taxes, The Economy, The Middle-Class, The Poor, The Wealthy, Wall Street, Wisconsin Recall
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Tagged barack obama, campaign finance, campaigns, CCA, citizens united, corporate greed, corrections, crime and punishment, Democrats, detention, drug policy, drugs, economics, GEO Group, healthcare, immigrants, immigration, jail, justice, law and order, laws, minorities, policy, prison, prisoner abuse, private prison industry, republicans, state legislation, students, wall street, war on drugs
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“And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” –Nietzsche Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s taut, brooding paean to the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden has been controversial since long before it even hit … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, Bin Laden, Foreign Policy, Hollywood, Intelligence Community, Iraq, Justice, National Security, Neo-cons, Neocons, Politics, Republican Propaganda Machine, Republican Scandals, Security, September 11, Terrorism, The Media, Torture, Wars
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Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, barack obama, Bush, foreign policy, george w bush, hollywood, Iraq, John McCain, Jose Rodriguez Jr., Larry Elder, national security, September 11th, terrorism, the CIA, torture, Zero Dark Thirty
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Howdy, Nationalist Rifle Ass-sores, I jest read your 27-page list of enemies who’s comin’ fer our guns. I done some thinkin’ ‘bout her, and I have a thing or two to say ‘bout a tiny fraction of the gun-hatin’ communist … Continue reading →
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Greetings and salutations, fellow captains of industry and our Republican lapdogs! I’m wiring you this electronic mail-o-gram from the deck of my mega-yacht Duchess’ Bounty. What wizardry is this, you may ask, that such a feat is possible from the … Continue reading →
Posted in ALECexposed, Banks and Finance, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance Laws, Campaigns, Capitalism, Congress, Debt and Budget, Deregulation, Economic Justice, Economic Policy, Education, Election, Election Fraud, Employment, Ethics, Financial Bailouts, Financial Collapse, Government, Healthcare, Incarceration, Income Inequality, Justice, Koch Brothers, Politics, Primaries, Privatization, Racial Issues, Republican Campaign Donors, Republican Leaders, Satire, State Legislation, Stimulus, superPACs, Supreme Court, Tax Cuts, Taxes, Tea Party, The Constitution, The Economy, The Middle-Class, The Poor, The Wealthy, Wall Street
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Tagged ALEC, Charles and David Koch, constitutional, Electoral College, gerrymandering, judicial challenge, satire, vote rigging, voting rights, wall street
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“I’ve got such a bully pulpit.” –Teddy Roosevelt Inaugural addresses usually seek to inspire, rally the country together, commit us to our ideals and lay out a vision for the future. Obama’s speech today did all that, but it also … Continue reading →
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Income Inequality, Medicaid, Medicare, Politics, Tea Party, The Constitution, The Economy, The Media, Women, Women in Politics, Women's Rights
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Tagged Affordable Care Act, barack obama, democratic party, gay rights, Hillary Clinton, immigration reform, inauguration, issues, medicaid, medicare, Obamacare, rhetoric, second inaugural address, Women's Rights
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“Thank you for the freak show,” Jared Lee Loughner said in an outburst during initial court proceedings for his January 8, 2011 shooting spree that killed 6 people and wounded 12 others. “She died right in front of me. You’re … Continue reading →
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Gun Control, Politics
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Tagged barack obama, bill clinton, conspiracy theory, executive orders, gun control, gun nuts, logical fallacies, massacre, myth, Newtown, Sandy Hook
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“Geography is destiny.” –Unknown Afghanistan is a treacherous land. In every sense of the word. Soon we will be leaving it behind. President Obama announced in a January 11th joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai that American troops … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Bin Laden, Foreign Policy, National Security, Politics, September 11, Terrorism, Wars, Women
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Tagged Afghan Women, Afghanistan, extortion, foreign policy, Hamid Karzai, opium, Pakistan, President Barack Obama, Taliban, trafficking, US, violence
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“Their paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can’t even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually in reality happening in this country every year because a few of … Continue reading →
Posted in Barack Obama, Gun Control, Housing Crisis, Occupy WallStreet, Politics, Supreme Court
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Tagged Alex Jones, democracy, gun control, gun nuts, history, institutions, waco texas
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