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POPSGOP Must Embrace 'The Vocal Majority' A populist movement is any that champions the rights and power of the people over elites. The Left has often embraced populism when it has suited them. President Obama got elected in part by adopting a soft economic populism. He made the implausible promise to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans. And he campaigned with populist red meat like: “Change means a tax code that doesn’t reward the lobbyists who wrote it but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it…” And the Left has often framed their fight for universal healthcare in populist terms, as a campaign for everyday Americans against elite politicians in bed with evil insurance companies.
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POPSUrban Outfitters: Hypocrites, Communists or Just Plain Ignorant? Hmmm: "Che Guevara has become T-shirt shorthand for counterculture -- most people in a Che T are oblivious to who he really was and are just celebrating the rebel in us all. In reality, Che went from being a doctor to a murderer in a wrongheaded, desperate attempt to change the world. The Communist Revolution he believed in didn't work -- and were he alive today, he would have to face that fact. Knowing that, the question is: Who would Che wear on his T-shirt? Who and what would (or could) he put his faith in?"
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POPSLiberal Bloggers target Christian Scholl for enforcing it's rules This is more than an attack by liberals on Christians. This is illustrative of something that has been going on for ages. Contracts in general have been allowed to be broken when ‘something’ comes up that gives the signer ‘second thoughts’. We take contracts too lightly because there is always some lawyer willing to take the issue to court. This is an attack on an organization that just happens to be a Christian school enforcing its rules on someone who is knowingly breaking those rules. Bottom line: a contract is a contract. If its provisions are not upheld and enforced then the contract loses all authority and meaning. Liberal or not, this tenant must be followed. Anyone breaking a contract should face penalties. Period. Why is this being turned into a Liberal vs Christian thing?
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POPSOhio Christian school tells student to skip prom Another example of nutty extremists, this time in the Christian realm. They deny these kids a normal life. I feel bad for this kid, hopefully he goes through and attends then sues his school. That would be my move - though I would never succomb to going to school in such a place to begin with.
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POPSThis Would Not Have Happened Under Saddam AFP: “Iraq arrests Al-Qaeda ‘oil minister’.” From the Iraqi statement: “The police in Diyala province arrested eleven members of the Islamic State in Iraq (Al-Qaeda’s self-styled name there), including Ali Mahmud Mohammed. He is the oil minister of this organization.” Now what was this bilge about Iraq having nothing to do with the Global War On Terrorism? Under Hussein, the government would have feted this guy. After President George Walker Bush liberated Iraq, police haul the guy off to jail. Thanks to President Bush, we now have an Arab nation that will arrest terrorists instead of funding them. I am sick of the liberal lies and the media who fall for it. Don Surber blog http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/02/28/this-would-not-have-happened-under-saddam-hussein/
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POPSPalin and George Wallace Palin courts racism by using Wallace's rhetoric. Makes a good point that counterculture of 60's bears no resemblance to Islamic jihadists.
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POPSWhy won't hipsters admit to being hipsters? Discussion about the Adbusters article, "Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization". Specifically, the part where the author is told by a couple of hipsters that it's not cool to call hipsters hipsters.
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POPSI'll Miss Him I've followed Carlin since his days as the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman. I didn't always agree with him but he made me laugh more often than not.
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POPSVisual Alchemist & Psychedelic Artist Defined A Generation Alton Kelley, whose psychedelic concert posters for artists like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Big Brother and the Holding Company helped define the visual style of the 1960s counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in Petaluma, Calif. He was 67. Mr. Kelley and Stanley Mouse, combined sinuous Art Nouveau lettering and outré images plucked from sources near and far to create the visual equivalent of an acid trip. They formed Mouse Studios: Mouse said they could work for hours in silence. "We knew what to do, we didn't have to talk." Kelley had the unique ability to translate the music being played into these amazing images that captured the spirit of who we were and what the music was all about. He was a visual alchemist — skulls and roses, skeletons in full flight, cryptic alphabets, nothing was too strange for his imagination to conjure.
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POPSLearning from our history... This is what I call true journalism... I discovered him quite a few years ago meandering (surfing?) through the net.. Pepe Escobar is readable, very acute and worth more than just a pause in my meanderings....
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