Monday, July 06, 2009

How FDR Saved Capitalism

By Seymour Martin Lipset
and Gary Marks

Hoover Digest 2001 No. 1

During the economic crisis of the 1930s, many expected a socialist revolution. The revolution never came. Why? The man in the White House co-opted the left.

Read it here.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Their reputation precedes them...



Thursday, June 25, 2009

Interactive Guide to Recent Republican Sex Scandals

*Valid only for sex scandals from 2006 to 2009.

@ Talking Points Memo

Monday, June 22, 2009

Swat!


Kevin Siers / The Charlotte Observer (June 22, 2009)

Friday, June 19, 2009

California's hard times driving people back to the 'Dust Bowl'

Phillip Reese | Sacramento Bee
Sunday, June 14, 2009

OKLAHOMA CITY — Fleeing the Great Depression and a drought unprecedented in American history, a vast wave of Oklahomans and Texans dubbed "Okies" loaded everything they could onto crowded vehicles during the 1930s and headed west for California. Today, in huge numbers, their grandchildren are moving back.

Read it here.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

What irony?


Scott Stantis / The Birmingham News

Friday, June 12, 2009

Countdown: WTF!! Texas Still Wants to Leave the Union

Countdown's Keith Olbermann considers what would happen to Texas if it did secede from the United States. As Keith notes, would be pretty expensive for Texas.

Video Link.