Archive for June 2013
Democracy’s loss is free enterprise’s gain
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013 The Weekly Screed (#634) Democracy’s loss is free enterprise’s gain by David Benjamin MADISON, Wis. — No one anticipated the Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as presciently as my friend, Wilhelm “Jim Crow” Bienfang, America’s greatest “idea man.” Trusting in the Court’s right-wing majority to continue…
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013 The Weekly Screed (#633) Big Hoover has always been watching by David Benjamin PARIS — Oh my God! The government is spying on Americans? Wait, wait, no. That’s not quite accurate, or at least not quite newsworthy. Let’s see if we can phrase this more alarmingly. Oh my God! The head…
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