Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a lot easier for the base to get itself a new elite than for the elite to find itself a new base
Author: Pat Murphy
Donald Trump reminds me of John Connally
Reading Time: 3 minutes With one key difference: Barring a miracle, Trump will become the 2016 Republican nominee; Connally was up against Ronald Reagan
Democracy is wasted on the little people
Reading Time: 3 minutes The so-called elites can’t understand how ill-informed, xenophobic ignorant rubes could reject the counsel and values of their betters
U.S. vice presidency ‘isn’t worth a pitcher of warm p-ss’
Reading Time: 3 minutes To their dismay, some vice presidents came to realize how irrelevant the role really is
Before Ali, there was Joe Louis
Reading Time: 3 minutes Where Ali was flamboyantly boastful, Louis was studiously modest and where Ali was outspokenly defiant, Louis was respectfully deferential
The guaranteed annual income is back!
Reading Time: 3 minutes For proponents, the key to an affordable guaranteed basic income is that it wouldn’t be layered on top of existing welfare arrangements
How General Motors brought socialism to America
Reading Time: 3 minutes GM CEO Charles Wilson established a pension plan that would invest in the broader U.S. economy to ensure the protection of his workers’ pensions
From Trump to Brexit, it’s all about nationalists vs. globalists
Reading Time: 3 minutes The tension between nationalists and globalists is very real and we’ll have to live with the consequences of how it turns out
Trump reignites old resentments in Mexico
Reading Time: 3 minutes 170 years ago the U.S. first created resentment in Mexico by annexing territory roughly equivalent in size to western Europe
Divvying up the Middle East after First World War
Reading Time: 3 minutes Beating-up on Britain’s Sir Mark Sykes and France’s Francois Georges-Picot for today’s mess in the Middle East is just plain silly