Marvin Meadors

Republicans have rejected what would come to be known as Keynesian economics since FDR created huge public works programs employing millions to drag us out of the Great Depression. Their oracle became Milton Friedman who revived classical economics, which celebrated free market policies. While Keynes believed in fiscal policy, i.e.,...

Why is Romney so seemingly casual about JPMorgan Chase Bank's recent loss of $3 billion? Immediately, 10 percent was shaved off the stock price and bank analysts were talking about the mega-bank possibly cutting its quarterly dividend if losses continue to mount? In the...

How is model legislation drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) undermining democracy? ALEC, which bears a striking resemblance to the evil law firm in the film The Devil's Advocate, is a "bill churning mill" which uses corporate money to draft model legislation that advances the agenda of the...

Back in the early days of the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover may have committed political suicide for the Republican party with his inaction, but he was at least acting consistently with his belief in small government and free markets. Republicans were the "no Santa Claus party," the party...

According to a fascinating article by Katherine Bagley prosaically titled "GOP Not Listening to its Own Climate Scientists on Climate Change," a group of prominent conservative scientists, many of them evangelicals, approached conservative politicians to educate them on climate change and predictably the pols have not "warmed," shall...

"As of February 2012, the [United Auto Workers] trust holds a 41.5 percent stake in Chrysler and a 10.3 percent stake in General Motors," according to Politifact.com. Eventually, the trust will own 39 percent of General Motors and 55 percent in Chrysler once the trust is fully

According to a 2008 Pew report, better educated conservatives deny climate change even more strenuously than less educated conservatives. Ironically, the greater the education the greater the dogmatism. Just when liberals thought education was the key to persuading conservatives about the science of climate change, it appears we...

"If you just cut -- if all you're thinking about is just cutting spending -- why as you cut spending you'll slow down the economy, so you have to at the same time create pro-growth tax policies." -- Mitt Romney last week during a town hall meeting in Michigan

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Mitt Romney's business acumen is fabled. With an estimated net worth of $250 million, that is, give or take a few stock options, he will not be clipping coupons anytime soon. In the GOP primaries, his main selling point as a presidential aspirant is his business success at Bain Capital....

Why do Republicans believe so many false narratives? No lock box in the world is as strong as their faith in the counterfactual, known to the rest of us as nonsense.

For example, we know the world is not 6,000 years old, but billions of years old. In fact,...

John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel and the original weatherman on Good Morning America: "There isn't any climate crisis," he said. "It's totally manufactured."

Meteorologists are notoriously reluctant to accept climate change. Why so? Theirs is a profession that studies the weather, which is...

This post is part of a Huffington Post series that showcases commentary from some of our most active and thoughtful users. See Marvin's commentary as HuffPost user Realpolitic here, and read his second piece below.

Conservatives have been engaged in a war against science for at least as...

This post is part of a Huffington Post series that showcases commentary from some of our most active and thoughtful users. See Marvin's commentary as HuffPost user Realpolitic here, and read his piece below.