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• You Have a Group of Social Scientists to Thank for Obama’s Re-Election — Read Why

  November 14, 2012 at 3:45pm

  In reply to Ghandi was a Republican.

  Gandhi. The H signifies that the D is aspirated. Time was I could spell it in devanagari.

• You Have a Group of Social Scientists to Thank for Obama’s Re-Election — Read Why

  November 14, 2012 at 2:19pm

  Robert Cialdini’s book “Persuasion” is well worth the read. At a minimum, it will help you more easily realize it when you are being manipulated.

  As far as Obama and the Dem’s, all this stuff is is improved Alinskyism. Alinsky said said that with regard to gathering and protecting power “whatever works is good, and that is good which works”. This is just a logical extension to that.

  Republicans would be stupid not to copy the tactics, but should never lose sight of the fact that this is ALL the Democrats have. We can copy their methods, but have the added advantage, if we are sincere, of pursuing policies that are in the long term interest of ALL Americans, even the ones too stupid to realize it.

• Obama Refuses to Answer ‘Repeated Questions on Whether Requests for Help in Benghazi Were Denied’

  October 26, 2012 at 11:16pm

  The future of our nation depends on honest men like this journalist. It is heartening to see occasional bursts of courage, and attempts at actually holding the powerful accountable. Chris Stevens, and the rest of them: they were the very sorts of “common man” that Obama appeals to rhetorically, but holds in such contempt. They are tools, pawns, nothing more, and he is an unabashed elitist who does not even listen to the counsel, in most cases, of those closest to him.

• Richard Dawkins Echoes Bill Nye: ‘Who Cares About Creationists’ & Their ‘Deep, Profound Ignorance’

  September 9, 2012 at 6:21pm

  In reply to barrycooper.

  college.” Apparently my reply went somewhere else. One word short of a full quote.

• Richard Dawkins Echoes Bill Nye: ‘Who Cares About Creationists’ & Their ‘Deep, Profound Ignorance’

  September 9, 2012 at 6:19pm

  In reply to barrycooper.

  college.” one word short.

• Richard Dawkins Echoes Bill Nye: ‘Who Cares About Creationists’ & Their ‘Deep, Profound Ignorance’

  September 9, 2012 at 6:18pm

  I think fundamentalist atheistic materialists like Dawkins are actually less rational than fundamentalist Christians, who readily admit their creed is based on faith. Dawkins claims to value evidence, but has shown often that he does not. He has not examined ANY of the data pertaining to the survival of death, psi, etc., other than the most blatantly fraudulent.

  I found this quote from Robert Anton Wilson last week, and will repost it: “In a 1988 interview, when asked about his newly-published book The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science, Wilson commented: “I coined the term irrational rationalism because those people claim to be rationalists, but they’re governed by such a heavy body of taboos. They’re so fearful, and so hostile, and so narrow, and frightened, and uptight and dogmatic… I wrote this book because I got tired satirizing fundamentalist Christianity… I decided to satirize fundamentalist materialism for a change, because the two are equally comical… The materialist fundamentalists are funnier than the Christian fundamentalists, because they think they’re rational! …They’re never skeptical about anything except the things they have a prejudice against. None of them ever says anything skeptical about the AMA, or about anything in establishment science or any entrenched dogma. They’re only skeptical about new ideas that frighten them. They’re actually dogmatically committed to what they were taught when they were

• Romney: ‘No One’s Ever Asked to See My Birth Certificate’

  August 24, 2012 at 6:40pm

  Gatekeeper: have you never seen Judgement at Nuremburg? You cannot say in some future reckoning that you could not see fascism coming, that you were just “trying to help”. You enabled it the first time you deleted a comment for purely political reasons. All it takes for a nation to fail is a lot of that. When any truth is anathema, the capacity for clear sight will disappear, and tyrants thrive in fog.

  That is why individualism is so important. and why we protect the right–and duty–of all individual Americans to speak up as such.

• Author of ‘Hit the Road’ Newsweek Cover Story Skewers His Critics

  August 21, 2012 at 10:19pm

  I just finished “The Ascent of Money”, and in my view he is not even remotely a conservative. He is simply not clinically insane. I would actually put him on the left side of the continuum of people who are actually worth debating. He has retained his humanity and some impulse towards the truth, which is more than I can say about much of this country as it exists today.

• Bill Ayers: ‘I Get Up Every Morning and Think…Today I’m Going to End Capitalism’

  April 2, 2012 at 4:24pm

  Whenever you see the phrase “end capitalism”, what you need to read is “impose a tyranny on everyone, run by people just like me, who have never had real jobs, created jobs, contributed to the national wealth in any way, but who still feel uniquely entitled to tell everyone else how to live their lives.”

• Frances Fox Piven: ‘Time for Another Surge From the Bottom’

  March 18, 2012 at 5:23pm

  Right or left, I encourage everyone to read this piece from the HuffPo on the real nature of economic disparity in this country. It has nothing to do with the profit motive, per se, and everything to do with using the legally sanctioned power to create money to extract wealth from the actually productive. If the OWS start focusing on THIS 1%, they will have my support. Of course, most of them gave up actual thinking long ago, but somebody needs to be running the show, and the bots will line up wherever they are told to line up.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-mullen/how-the-fed-steals-for-th_b_1343283.html