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POPSRacism? Really? Black conservatives on Obama Real racism does exist today. But you won’t find it displayed in so called “racist” words that the language police have used to judge your heart and soul. It exists in the liberal movement that champions abortion—abortion that predominantly targets inner-city blacks. It exists in well-to-do environmental circles that serves to keep blacks in third world countries trapped in pathetic third world status in the name of “green.” Whether by the elite condemnation of genetically engineered corn or opposition to development of energy via coal or nuke, such successful opposition and obstruction keeps blacks trapped in a third-world life of suffering. Real racism is alive and well in the educational policies that keep a large segment of America’s black children trapped in absolutely failing schools, unable to read, write, excel or even write their names.
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POPSUnearthed! Obama's ACORN roots In Chicago, Obama had his biggest impact registering voters on the city's South Side. However, Obama's "Fight the Smears" website disputes this, saying Obama "never organized with ACORN." After completing his legal education at Harvard in 1991, Obama returned to Chicago to work on the voting project that developed directly out of a radical revolutionary strategy developed by two Columbia University sociologists in the 1960s. In what became known as the Cloward-Piven strategy, the tactic advocated a revolutionary approach to mobilizing the poor in the form of class warfare against capitalist forces viewed as exploiting labor and oppressing the poor. The Cloward-Piven strategy sought to apply the tactics of the revolutionary civil rights movement, including urban riots, to the poor as a whole, transcending interest-group politics defined by race to involve interest-group politics defined by class.
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POPSTime For Bickering Is Over Obama said the legislation he seeks would guarantee insurance to consumers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions, as well as other protections. "As soon as I sign this bill, it will be against the law for insurance companies to drop your coverage when you get sick or water it down when you need it most," he added. The president assured those with insurance that "nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have." Obama also said the legislation he seeks would help those who lack insurance to afford it. "These are not primarily people on welfare," he said in a line that appeared aimed at easing concerns among working-class voters. "These are middle-class Americans."
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POPSGates-Gate: A teaching moment in class warfare This wasnt about Racial profiling. Its about Race-Bait International alive and well. Its about the Ego-centic audacity of a Black Man who have EARNED a highly respectable pedigree, but who HASNT LEARNED to apply respect to anyone else (in white skin)
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POPSWH using class warfare to sell health reform Now, it is not that I don’t think we need health care reform. We do. It is not that the rich should not pay fair taxes. They should. But to justify a grossly over weighted tax by saying “You people have had it good long enough” is to engage in the worst and most destructive form of politics: class warfare. By making a snarky comment like that, Gibbs suggests that the top 1% are a bunch of Bernie Madoffs, that they’ve been scheming their way to riches, evading the system, hiding their money in complicated offshore deals. You know — wink, wink — they’ve had it “pretty good.” This is every bit as insulting as saying all poor people are lazy welfare cheats. Imagine the uproar if he’d said that. What’s the difference? Both are dangerous lies.
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POPSDemocrats' Health Tax Will Push Tax Rate Over 50% in 39 States As much as the Democrats love the class warfare stuff, Americans do not live in a class system. You are not stuck in the socio-economic class of your parents. We not only aspire to prosper, the story of America is that we can succeed. We are also driven by an acute sense of fair play. So whether you are in the +50% tax bracket or not, there is something about the government's taking more of people's money than they are allowed to keep that rubs people the wrong way. By the time of the 2010 elections all that rubbing may make things electorally raw for these thieving politicians.
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POPSHamid Dabashi on Iran: this isn't class or sectarian conflict -- it's something new Hamid Dabashi is a Columbia University professor. He views the current situation in Iran as something fundamentally non-ideological. He compares it to the U.S. civil rights movement and predicts that a nonviolent resistance will continue for some time. I like the final line: "We need to sit back, hope for the best and let this inspirational movement of a whole new generation of hope teach us courage and humility."
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POPSRight-wing media and the fringe: A growing history of violence (and denial)
While right-wing media are certainly not legally culpable for any recent attacks, they are responsible for promoting a culture of fear, paranoia, and violence that is anti-government in the extreme -- a culture in which extremists, including von Brunn and Richard Poplawski, who fatally shot three Pittsburgh police officers, were apparently immersed. Poplawski was convinced that the Obama administration was going to take away his guns. Even though no evidence of such a policy exists, right-wing commentators and news organizations made the claim repeatedly before the shooting and have continued to do so since. Predictably, conservative media figures responded to the museum shooting by attempting to shift attention away from themselves and onto political liberals and even President Obama himself. On June 10, the day of the museum shooting, financial analyst and radio host Jim Lacamp said on Fox News that "we have an administration that's really done a lot of class warfare, a lot of cla
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POPSThe New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online A worthwhile article , KK explores the newly arising power of social networks, adhocracy and the newly emergent cyberculture. Though I do not resonate with his use of the term 'socialism', a deep forray into the web event of collaboration provides a different view of the potential for a change we all hope for. Open source is definitely the way to go.
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POPS The Party Of 'NO' We know the principles upon which this country was founded. The principles you Lefties are always dragging through the mud. Little things like individual liberty. And respecting the flag. And love of God and country. And respect for our fighting troops. And smaller, limited government. And a dedication to our international autonomy. And the belief in peace through strength. Trust, but verify. Rugged individualism and personal responsibility.
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POPSTaxes up, Bankers Bail on London "High earners" face a 50% income tax next year in the U.K., and many bankers say it's the last straw. Many are planning to leave a badly beaten London financial market.
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POPSObama = Jimmy Carter We have a president who is in sync with Carter. Now all we need are Republicans who believe as Reagan did. And, then, we could use another Reagan to rekindle the innate optimism that has always defined Americans and America.
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POPS “Take this job and shove it!” No waitress, factory worker, clerk or bottle washer ever got to deliver a “Take this job and shove it!” like that. Did any country western star ever even think of writing that one? Boo hoo. That’s for the rest of us, because Jake, his boss Edward Libby, these nameless credit-default swap electricians … the ones Jake says shafted us when he was honestly raking in a couple million a year as a financial products plumber in that crappy house … and all the pols and bureaucratic building inspectors who stood by, have put us in a position where we have to pay people who made obscene amounts of money on this screwed-up system even more obscene amounts of money to unscrew it. If in fact that is what they are doing, a point about which I am not confident. I bet we can fly in a planeload of financial brainiacs from Bangalore at a fraction of Jake’s price. Outsourcing Wall Street to India. That’d get their attention.
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POPSThe Reality about "Class Warfare" Whenever the conservatives pull up that old snort about "class warfare", remember what they really mean: "We want to screw you out of your money any way we bloody well want!" Oh, yes it's warfare; but it's the rich that are inflicting all the damage.
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POPSRemedial Fascism for Confused Conservatives Hitler said Germany had collapsed because of loose morals, religious tolerance, the liberal media and all the usual boogeymen that we hear about today from conservatives. What we see with Jonah Goldberg and his entourage of pseudointellectuals is an effort to destroy the meaning of the word "Fascism" and to reduce Hitler to a buffoonish anti-Semite, rather than a devious master propagandist.
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POPSObama Election Signals Return of the Vampire "“The 1980s, the Reagan era, is the most prolific era for zombie movies,” Dendle said. “They drop off the face of the Earth in 1990, in terms of high-budget studio films.” Vampires – and Democrats – swooped back to prominence. Ten days after Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush, “Bram Stoker's Dracula” hit theaters. The Clinton years were also haunted by “Interview with the Vampire,” “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” and “Blade.” Zombies returned with a brain-eating vengeance during George W. Bush's tenure: “28 Days Later,” “28 Weeks Later,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Day of the Dead,” “Diary of the Dead.” Bush-era zombies, noted Chera Kee, a University of Southern California doctoral candidate studying these cultural icons, also wandered into video games and comic books. "
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