RATIONAL RESISTANCE
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What’s The Deal With Trump Followers?
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Five years ago when Donald Trump road that escalator and announced his candidacy, everyone including most people who are now Trump-for-lifers, believed it was a stunt, and he was clearly unqualifie...June 10, 2013
Americans read about NSA surveillance of internet traffic and data mining of phone records and they responded with a collective “meh.” This blog doesn’t exactly tear it up in the page view department, but my recent posts on NSA Spying have gotten very little traction at all. And that leads me to believe when it comes to the NSA leak story, Americans just don’t give a shit.
June 10, 2013
Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst, says the NSA leak by Edward Snowden is the most important in American history. That’s saying something given Ellsberg himself released the “Pentagon Papers” over 40 years ago, making him arguably the most famous whistle-blower to date.
June 7, 2013
There’s a simple reason the National Security Agency’s (NSA) data mining of phone records and internet content/traffic will continue unabated — This is how Americans now expect their government to behave. We want to be protected, and so many of us have made peace with it. As long as it’s out of sight, out of mind, there’s no civil liberty concerns.
June 6, 2013
The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald reports that Verizon phone records as well as the data systems of major internet companies are being tapped by the National Security Agency (NSA) to mine data, apparently at will.
June 6, 2013
Did you know there is a law in Texas that allows you to use deadly force to retrieve stolen property? Well, the only catch is that the theft has to occur at nighttime. No seriously folks, conservatives are apparently just making it up as they go. — Because such a law exists, a man was just acquitted of murder.
June 5, 2013
“The next generation of conservatives are gonna be fine with same-sex marriage.” – Chris Mooney (The Republican Brain)
June 5, 2013
Washington Representative Jim McDermott (D) was right to call yesterday’s IRS hearing “political theater.”
June 5, 2013
In “the not-too-distant future,” DNA plays a central role in the path of one’s life. If your genetic makeup is not of sufficient caliber, you are classified as an “in-valid,” incapable of working the most desirable jobs, left to be a second-class citizen to the genetically superior “valids.” Sure, there are laws on the books explicitly prohibiting such discrimination, but the cat is out of the bag. With each person’s DNA recorded, it becomes all too easy to profile based on genetic makeup, with little or no recourse for those facing such discrimination.
June 4, 2013
I’ve said this before, conservatives are all for big government. Conservatives are all for making government more intrusive. But I do need to add a slight clarification. Conservatives are fine with overreaching government as long as that government interference only impacts the lives of people who conservatives judge as different or immoral.
June 4, 2013
On the issue of marijuana legalization, Democrats need to grow a spine, and Republicans need to show they are not talking out of their asses.