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Matthew Hormann: The Hollywood Ten -1 950

. Source:The New Democrat I don’t want to sound overly partisan here, but this was one of the ugliest anti-American, anti-liberal democratic, illiberal periods in American history. Where Americans were judged by who they associated with and political causes they … Continue reading

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Jnuss Bau: The Hollywood Blacklist: 1947-1960

. Source:The New Democrat The late 1940s and all the way up to at least the mid-1950s or so was one of the most fascist illiberal and anti-liberal democratic periods of our time. I think elements of today’s Tea Party … Continue reading

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The New Republic: Elaine Teng: Congress Blocks Washington-DC Marijuana Legalization

Source:The New Democrat I’ve lost count how many times Republicans and so-called Conservatives talk about the need for federalism, state and local control, but that as long as states and locals governing what the way they approve. Doing things that … Continue reading

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Brookings Institution: Thomas Mann: The New Normal in Politics: Response to Gridlock and Gloom

Source:The New Democrat I don’t feel any sympathy for anyone for Americans who claim to hate the dysfunction in Washington, especially in Congress, but at the same time vote for people who are responsible for that dysfunction. Its like hearing … Continue reading

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Roy Dan Baron: ‘Liberals Are Idiot Compassion & Conservatives Are Wise Compassion’

Source:The New Democrat I’m going to try to put this in a way that is as accurate as possible, but at the same time isn’t overly insulting and unfair. Because I do respect Roy Dan Baron who at least up … Continue reading

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John Kramer SNL Politics Reviewed

Source:The Daily Press I can sum up the Republican presidential debates in several paragraphs or less, so I will. Mitt Romney- “vote for me because I can win” and his other slogan being, “if you’re for it so am I”. … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Jamelle Bouie- John Fund’s Distorted History of the Democratic Party

Source:The New Democrat What right-wingers of today and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal and National Review is one of them, don’t seem to understand is that even though it is true that Congressional Republicans supported the civil rights … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Jamelle Bouie: Jim DeMint, American Abolitionism and Constitutional Conservatives

Source:The New DemocratRepresentative Michele Bachmann announced she was running for president in, I believe, August of 2011.  Her  presidential campaign lasted all of four months.  It was one of the shortest presidential campaigns in American history.  When she announced that … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Dave Weigel: Sarah Palin vs. Beltway Republicans

Source:The New DemocratIf Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin are the faces of Conservatism in America in 2014, then we might as well start planning its funeral and Liberals can declare victory in this ongoing ideological war of some 50 years … Continue reading

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Radical Films: U.S. House Un-American Activities

. Source:The New Democrat  The House Un-American Activities Committee and then later the Joe McCarthy Government Oversight Committee in the Senate were classic cases of guilt by association. Because they assumed some Americans were Un-American and not deserving of being … Continue reading

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