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Lincoln
Those of us who are inextricably obsessed with politics have been lucky to witness two truly great modern political films featuring two uncanny portrayals of martyred presidents. Thirteen Days, with...
View ArticleThe Bully Pulpit
Just a brief reminder as we enter the second Obama presidential term. The Teddy Roosevelt phrase “bully pulpit” doesn’t imply using president power as a means of being aggressive or nasty. Anyone who...
View ArticlePresident Kennedy’s American University Address
President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his degree through many years of attending night law school,...
View ArticleU.S. Military Considered Blowing Up the Moon
I thought this was a joke, but it’s not. CBS News reports: During the height of the Cold War, U.S. officials debated whether to detonate nuclear bomb on the moon in order to send a message to the...
View ArticleGrappling with the Conundrum of ‘Django Unchained’
My Thursday column: I don’t mean to step on Chez Pazienza’s toes as the unofficial The Daily Banter Movie Guy, but I wanted to take some time with the new Quentin Tarantino movie Django Unchained;...
View ArticleTed Nugent Compares Gun Owners to Rosa Parks
Nugent isn’t quite as psychotic at that escaped mental patient from Tennessee who threatened to start killing people, but he’s not far off. And now he’s likening himself to one of the great nonviolent...
View ArticleWas the Second Amendment About Preserving Slavery?
Thom Hartmann seems to think so and he lays out a pretty convincing case at Truth Out: If the anti-slavery folks in the North had figured out a way to disband – or even move out of the state – those...
View ArticleConfirmed: Second Amendment Framers Wanted to Protect Slavery
Tommy Christopher was incredulous about Thom Hartmann’s report for Truth Out indicating that the framers intended the Second Amendment as a means of protecting slave-holders from slave insurrections....
View ArticleThe Long Shadow of Barack Obama’s Inauguration
My Inauguration Day column begins like so: President Obama was officially sworn in yesterday for his second term as chief executive and, this afternoon, he’ll be ceremonially sworn in with all of the...
View ArticleDavid Mamet’s Latest Far-Right Screed
By now you might’ve seen David Mamet’s pro-gun screed in Newsweek in which he basically assembled every NRA bumper sticker into essay form. It’s just as wingnutty as everything else he’s written since...
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