Socialism

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"Is Obama a Socialist?"

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Obama a Socialist, Socialism, Democrats, Health Care, Rush Limbaugh Barack Obama, President Obama, Barack Obama, Politics News

The slew of anti-Obama slanders from the right has forced much of the mainstream media (who should know better) to spend time and coverage refuting false claims. This just ends up giving credence to the silly charges.

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Disrupting Democracy

Robin Lakoff | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Conservative, Logical Fallacy, Political Rhetoric, Health Care Reform, Socialism, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News

Liberals have devised ways to help the economically impoverished. Now we have to figure out what to do about the discursively impoverished.

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Should the French Socialist Party Die?

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Albert Camus, Bernard Kouchner, Socialist Party, Jean Paul Sartre, The Left, Nouvel Observateur, May 1968 France, Socialism, French Socialist Party, French Left, World News

Am I right to say of today's Socialist Party that it is the "large corpse falling backward" that Jean-Paul Sartre has already diagnosed?

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Is the US Military a Socialist Institution?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Fire Department, United States Military, Socialism, United States Armed Forces, Politics News

Does anyone disagree that the military is almost entirely government run? If you agree to that obvious fact, when you attack all government run programs, aren't you by definition attacking the US military?

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The Obama Joker Poster

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Character Assassination, Bush, Obama Joker Poster, President Obama, Gop, Political Satire, Heath-Ledger-the-Joker, Socialism, Posters, Democrats, Political Lampooning, Political Cartoons, Politics News

I didn't scream for the Obama Joker posters to be yanked down for a Hitlerian banned-book bonfire. The call was for the individual slapping the posters up to publicly ID themselves.

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Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!

Bob Cesca | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wingnuts, Public Option, Rush Limbaugh, Social Security, Lou Dobbs, Tea Parties, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Senior Citizens, Steve Kagan, Sean Hannity, Health Care Reform, Glenn Beck, Medicare, Socialism, Health Care, Astroturf, FreedomWorks Health Care, Politics News

Senior citizens disrupting town halls are participating in a corporate lobbyist-driven campaign to prevent the rest of us from acquiring the same affordable, reliable public health care they enjoy.

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Firefighting in the 1800's: A Corrupt, Bloated, Private For-Profit Industry

Tina Dupuy | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Firefighters, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Capitalism, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Socialism, Free Market, Health Care, Jim Demint, Hcr, Politics News

Less government is not always good. The private sector is not always first-rate. And free market capitalism does not cure all.

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Un-Spinning Healthcare Reform: Part 1

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Care, Newsweek, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Steny Hoyer, Healthcare Reform, Socialism, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Obama Healthcare Reform, Terry Lierman, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Jim DeMint Waterloo, Health Care, Politics News

One of the most infuriating aspects to the issue of healthcare reform is the lack of honest debate by our public officials.

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Bobby Jindal, Dan Quayle and Socialist Health Care

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald McDonald, Joe the Plumber, Ronald Reagan, Bobby Jindal, Social Security, Josef Stalin, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Red Baiting, Dan Quayle, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Jimmy Carter, Socialism, Medicare, Republican Party, Politics News

Fear, not surprisingly, has remained one of the key tenets of the Republican message during Obama's presidency.

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Sessions' Hate Speech

Tom Gilroy | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Tiller, Jeff Sessions, Voter Intimidation, Socialism, Progressives, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

The point of putting a 'racially insensitive' white man up to question a Latina has nothing to do with bad GOP planning and everything to do with intimidation.

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Victoria Jackson Speaks for Conservatives?

Stephanie Vaughn Hapke | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Victoria Jackson, Obama, Socialism, Roe vs Wade, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

Miss Jackson reminds me of a quote, attributed to Abraham Lincoln: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

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GOP Senator: U.S. Is "Where Germany Was Before WWII"

The Washington Independant | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Demint, Demint, Freedom, Germany, America, Iran, Tyranny, Socialism, Gop, Republican Party, Hugo Chavez, Obama Administration, Obama, Revolution, Politics News

Last night, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) gave a short talk and Q&A at at the National Press Club about his book "Saving Freedom." DeMint told a room of ar...

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Why Have We Abandoned Markets?

Michael Pento | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Crisis, Socialism, Free Market, Economy, Business News

It astonishes me to see how quickly this country has embraced a socialist mentality and how readily it has accepted the belief that the source of our problems was an unfettered free market.

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Hugo Chavez T-Shirts, Talking Dolls Serve Thousands Of Followers (VIDEO)

Global Post | Charlie Devereux | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Socialism, Caracas, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, World News

CARACAS -- Reports on rallies in support of President Hugo Chavez often refer to a sea of red shirts. But where do all those T-shirts come from? How...

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Socialism: Should Investors Panic?

Dan Solin | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Investing, Socialism, Economic Growth, Europe, France, Economy, Business News

Those who raise the socialism boogeyman as a way to frighten investors either don't know the data or are intentionally misleading them.

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Fear and Looting in America: Is President Obama a Financial Wimp?

Les Leopold | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Congress, TARP Money, Income Inequality, Economic Crisis, Larry Summers, Franklin Roosevelt, Housing Crisis, Barack Obama, Gambling, Unemployment, Wall Street, Bailout, Joe the Plumber, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Socialism, Great Depression, Business News

We cannot thrive or even survive in an economy that only moves money around instead of producing tangible goods and services.

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RNC's Michael Steele Becomes Union Man

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, John McCain, Kate Bronfenbrenner, President Obama, Secret Ballot, Rush Limbaugh, Cornell University, Employee Free Choice Act, Usw, Congress, United Steelworkers, Civil Unions, Facebook, Republican, General Motors, Conservatives, Moderates, Socialism, Politics News

Steele can perch that white hard hat atop his head, but he's going to have to labor at learning some hard philosophical lessons before becoming a real steelworker, a true union man.

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Millions of 'Dangerous' Socialists Massed on Northern U.S. Border!

Bill Mann | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: Government-Run-Health-Care, Fox News, Ndp, Canada, Socialism, Bobby Jindal, National Health Reform, World News

Government-run health care is only one thing we Americans can learn from Canada and its "left-leaning" political leaders.

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Think Again: Chiller, Socialist Theater

Eric Alterman | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

In conservative world, this administration is leading a march on socialism. Just last week alone, Media Matters counted more than 143 mentions of the word "socialism" on the cable news shows.

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The "Just Say NO-Bama Campaign": Part 1 - Where Have All the News Editors Gone?

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Conservative Media, Obama Apology, Liberal Media, Newspapers, Conservatives, Liberals, Traditional Media, Propaganda, Conservative Talk Radio, Racism, Broadcast-News, Socialism, Barack Obama, Politics News

I am deeply concerned that the rules of engagement have been irresponsibly relaxed under the pressure to compete for the scoops, exclusives and gotcha-quotes-of-the-day.

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Sarah Palin Defines Socialism Sideways (And The Rest Of Today's Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Poverty, Larouche, Media Criticism, Sarah Palin, Media Matters, Sean Hannity, Socialism, Rush Limbaugh, Lyndon Larouche, Media News

Via Taegan Goddard. PALIN: We are the only state with a negative tax rate where we don't have any income, sales or property tax statewide, and yes we...

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A Cause for Comedy: A Cause for Mild Alarm

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 07.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Fascism, Communism, Slumdog Millionaire, Causecast, Marxism, A Cause for Comedy, Socialism, Islamo-Fascism, Nextaid, Comedy News

Here's the concept. A bunch of idealistic flower people put down their peace pipes for one minute and decide to host a comedy show. You, the sucker, go and shell out $10 of your hard-earned scratch to watch an hour of penis jokes or something. Here's the communist part: they take the money earned from the show and give it to some not-for-profit organization!

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Helen Keller: Socialist and Pacifist

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Helen Keller Anne Sullivan, Hellen Keller, Radcliffe, Miracle Worker, Socialism, Anne Sullivan, Pacifism, Politics News

Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968 in Connecticut. Most of us learned about her childhood. But they didn't tell us she was a Socialist and a pacifist.

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Danger! A Nation of Socialists Lurks Just Across Our Border!

Bill Mann | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Cbc, British Columbia, Canada, Socialism, Bobby Jindal 2012, Health Care, Ndp, World News

In the current health-care debate, we could learn a lot from our closest neighbors, although, as usual, we probably won't.

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Americans Wouldn't Want To Be Like Them! (Oh, Yeah?)

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Feed-in Tariff, Germany, Poverty, Old Europe, Renewable Energy, Frances Moore Lappe, Clean Energy, Socialism, World News

No culture can expect to look to another for answers, wholesale. But wouldn't it be tragic if we let mindless labels and manipulated stereotypes block us from inspiration and practical ideas just because they arise elsewhere?

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