Run, Hillary, Run: Defy the Critics, Go for Broke
Robert S. Becker One reluctantly knocks the political wizardry of HBO’s Bill Maher. And yet, how rude: telling his party’s heir apparent, Hillary Clinton, to take a hike, in fact a year off from...
View ArticleLiteralists Defy ‘Literal’ Science For ‘Creation Myth'
By Robert S. Becker Yahweh Deserves Better than Texas Primitive Gohmert Everybody loves a good story and, as Aristotle taught, nothing drives impact like a beginning, middle and end. Start off with...
View ArticleImpeachment Addiction Affliction: A Fool’s Errand
Robert S. Becker As left and right partisans fold Chicken Little into the Boy Who Cried Wolf, high time to label our latest national derangement: Impeachment Addiction Affliction. One day militant...
View ArticlePalin Redux: Still Crazy Dumb After All These Years
By Robert S. Becker SNL Satire Downplayed Her Fraudulence Awash with grim, hard times, and pained by Robin Williams’ tragic departure, those of us whose survival depends on comic interludes have not...
View ArticleThe Horror! Must We Lurch Hard Right to Go Left?
Robert S. Becker However painful the remedy, America the Dense apparently needs another round of 2 X 4's to the head. Despite fiery warnings from the world's best social, economic and scientific...
View ArticleProphecy, Not History, is the Real Bunk
Bogus Predictions Scorch Left and Right Absurd prophecies from sleazy televangelists are easy to ridicule, especially when failure eggs them on to greater presumption. Batting zero feeds their...
View ArticleWhat's Left of the Left?
By Robert S. Becker There's but one compelling, existential question for marginalized leftwing politics: will progressive clout be higher or lower when 2015 ends? If not, why not? Imagine the trend...
View ArticleWhat's Left of the Left?
By Robert S. Becker There's but one compelling, existential question for marginalized leftwing politics: will progressive clout be higher or lower when 2015 ends? If not, why not? Imagine the trend...
View ArticleRe-igniting Progressive Politics: A Compact Manifesto
By Robert S. BeckerIf pressed, how would you distill, then energize the new wave of "progressive politics"? The 20th C. foundation remains for me the second half of F.D.R.'s Four Freedoms, boldly...
View ArticleWill Immigrants Who Built America Redeem It?
By Robert S. BeckerNote: the trigger here is a provocative essay by OpEdNews’ Rob Kall, asking,“Why Do Immigrants From Communist Nations Tend to Become Right Wingers?” What struck me goes farther...
View ArticleWill Hillary Take Plutocratic ‘Clinton, Inc.’ Global?
Robert S. Becker "It's the Clintons, stupid." That answers the question, "what will be national center stage if Hillary gets nominated"? Or course, if HC keeps pumping out unforced errors (book tour...
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