Aquarian Conspiracy
A View From the Radical Center Not middle of the road, but a view of the whole road. Including error and exageration. A framework.

O.K. I admit, I've used a bit of Hysterical Hyperbole here. But it isn't far off the mark, and fits well within the Colorado Theocrat's Dominionist World View. I am left gasping for air by the comments made by a Colorado Talibangelical Senator. Regarding the debate on Senate Bill 60, Emergency Contraception for Rape Survivors, Talibangelical Wing-nut Dave Schultheis, wondered how doctors would "determine that a person actually did incur that sexual assault." "Are they going to take the word of that individual?" asked Schultheis. "You could see individuals coming in that just wanted to make sure that last night’s stand didn’t result in a pregnancy and basically say that they had been sexually assaulted" to get the contraceptive. My first reaction is a Twighlight Zonish feeling. I think I have been swooped into some kind of alternate universe. I still can't breathe. What's next Dave? While the ER techs are tending to her wounds, and calling for a rape kit, you want to have some Talibangelical Overseer there to call her a shameless whore? Will you condemn her for not walking in the company of your Talibangelical Elders? What about that burqʿah, not black enough for ya, Dave? When will the stoning begin, Dave? I call on all decent people everywhere to condemn this crude misogynist for his hate-filled rhetoric. Send him your thoughts at dave@daveschultheis.com
I am not completely down with the whole points thing.
I mean, how much time can you spend online if you're trying to keep a roof over your family's head.
I think it's kinda unfairly weighted toward the yuppie single.
Not to mention the fact that, eh-hem, some of us do campaign work, and ethically cannot spread ourselves all over the map, when we have some primary responsibilites like getting issues passed or people elected.
I would like to propose that the progressnow action network be used to fight Xcel energy's proposal to increase the price of Windsource and always keep the price high.

Can we create a campaign to end this madness?

I would like to direct your attention to The Denver Post article at: Link

Under the proposal, Windsource costs would rise from $3.79 to $4.29 per 100 kilowatt- hours. The typical Colorado home uses 625 kilowatt-hours per month.

Xcel said it is asking for the rate increase to keep Windsource prices higher than conventional power.

"This is a premium price program, and customers that elect to join the Windsource program have decided to pay more to build up wind power in the state," Xcel spokeswoman Ethnie Groves said.

Steady wind means pricier power

Thanks for your consideration!
Headline:
Leonardo scholars remain faithful to the scientist

I love mystery adventures.

I discovered Dan Brown a few years back and have never been unhappy. His books could also fall into the category of suspense, thriller. Whatever genre you wish to place his novels into, the point here is that they are just that.

Novels. Fictions created to entertain. Fictions. I really enjoy historical novels too. New places, and eras I would not have otherwise visited are a great distraction from my addiction to politics.

So much for curing my addiction though, since this novel which I so enjoyed just a couple of years ago, has ended up being one of the most politically charged points of discussion I have heard in a long time. Or, at least since the release of Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ.

Is Dan Brown as good as Tom Clancy? No. But, he is on his way to being so.

His style is more similar to the breathless suspense of Jeffrey Deaver (The Bone Collector), but his his sense of place and time can be compared to Michael Crichton, and his addictions to conspiracy can be compared to Robin Cook. The uproar over The Da Vince Code just boggles my mind.

*Note to self: try to be an iconoclast, write a book that includes religious and historical icons. Then, give them the Douglas Adams treatment.

If the brewha-ha by the Religious Right wasn't enough to make your skin crawl, the latest rants from scientists and historical scholars should make you realize that orthodoxy of any ilk must be questioned and challenged at every possible opportunity!

I return to the '70's Counter Culture Mantra: "Think for yourself and question authority"- Timothy Leary.

Brown has done both a favor and huge disservice to hundreds of Leonardo da Vinci scholars, researchers and aficionados by casting the artist as the nucleus of a vast, religious conspiracy that spans the centuries -- a kind of Oliver Stone of the Renaissance. The Da Vinci Code certainly has helped fuel the popular interest in all things da Vinci, from lectures to exhibits to documentaries. But scholars now have the task of explaining to the general public that Leonardo was a thoughtful, meticulous and inspired scientist, not a stealth artist who loaded his paintings with cryptic hints.
Science & Theology News - Leonardo scholars remain faithful to the scientist

crossposted on my blog
Too Much White House Wrongdoing to Keep Up With?
Create the Ultimate Tracking Tool!

People For the American Way thinks it's time the public had a single place to read up on the multitude of Link and ethically dubious policies and activities of the Bush Administration. With your help, we think we have the answer!
 

Using the same technology as the popular encyclopedia site Wikipedia.org, which is authored entirely by the general public, PFAW has set up Link. At Link site, you can post any material you wish, edit any material already posted, and create new topic areas.
 
We have launched this site with a small amount of content - just enough so you can see the type of material we seek. It's up to you and your friends to make this a truly useful new site for the nation. This is not a blog for rants against the Bush administration (the world already has plenty of those), but a resource for those seeking information on White House wrongdoing. So post only factual material backed up with links to reputable sources.

Visit Link today and see what could be possible with a little bit of help from you and your friends - then carve out some time over the next week to input at least one really solid entry based on a recent news article that stuck in your craw. Or, if you're more the editing type, go into just one section and improve other entries with more precise language or better transitions.

This is a site the public could really use - will you help build it?

Tens of thousands of Foreign Guest Workers Stripped of their Passports and Trapped in Involuntary Servitude.
May 5th, 2006

Sewing clothing for Wal-Mart, Kohl's, Gloria Vanderbilt, Target, L.L. Bean, Thalia Sodi, Kmart, Victoria's Secret and more...

$1.1 Billion of garments made in Jordan entered the U.S. duty-free last year.


Young woman hangs herself at the Al Safa Factory after being raped by a plant manager. The factory produced for Gloria Vanderbilt and Target. Four young women, including a 16 year-old girl, were raped by managers at the Western Factory, where garments were being sewn for Wal-Mart. Forced to work 109 hours a week, including 20 hour shifts, without pay for six months.

Al Shahaed workers, also sewing Wal-Mart, routinely forced to work 16, 24, 38 and even 72-hour shifts for an average wage of two cents an hour. Workers beaten with sticks and belts.



All across Jordan, it is common for guest workers to be at the factory over 100 hours each week, while they are being cheated of upwards of half the wages legally due them. Not one guest workers is paid the legal minimum wage. Nor do guest workers receive the legal overtime premium.



Seven day workweeks are routine, with one, at most two, days off each month. Beatings are common. Workers are shoved, slapped and punched for making mistakes, falling behind in their production goals or using the bathroom too often. Bathrooms lack tiolet paper, soap and towels. Workers asking for back wages owed them could be imprisoned. Housed under primitive dorm conditions, 8 to 10 people sharing each 10-foot by 10-foot room, sleeping in narrow metal double-level bunk beds. The dorms often lack running water up to three and four days a week, making it impossible to bathe. The stench of the bathrooms is unbearable. Corporate codes of conduct and audits are completely meaningless. Many workers say they feel like slaves, some workers are trying to escape, leaving their passports behind, hiding by day and running by night in an attempt to cross the border out of Jordan.

Yesterday's New York Times article just scratches the surface of an explosive new 160-page report being released today by the National Labor Committee.



Senator Byron Dorgan will introduce the "Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act" which will prohibit the import or sale in the U.S. of sweatshop goods made under conditions violating core ILO worker rights standards.


Some Background:


Between 2000 and 2005, Jordan's apparel exports to the U.S. soared 2,000 percent--reaching $1.1 billion in 2005.These garments entered the U.S. duty-free. There are at least 48,000 garment workers in Jordan and more than 25,000 are foreign "guest workers." The totals could be much higher since record keeping in Jordan is poor and dated. Guest workers are from Bangladesh, China, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Most of the garment factories in Jordan exporting duty-free to the U.S. are foreign-owned, with investment from China, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Oman. The Big Winner is China: More than 60 percent of the value of the garments entering the U.S. duty-free from Jordan are made up of fabric from China. Jordan is the fourth country with which the U.S. has signed a free trade agreement, doing so in December 2000. For years these gross, systematic violations of worker rights have gone on in broad daylight. In the immediate future, the U.S. is planning to sign FTAs with Oman, Peru, perhaps Colombia and United Arab Emirates. USAID trained the manager of the largest FTZ in Jordan--Al Tajamouat--where worker rights violations are rampant.

See the full report
View Source Here http://blog.aflcio.org/?p=488

Among the massive cuts to federal programs that benefit working people, Republican congressional leaders have muscled through $12.7 billion in cuts to student aid as part of the Bush administration's budget blueprint.

Translation: Students who borrow up to $20,000 could end up paying an extra $6,000 over the life of the loan.

The education cuts are part of a $40 billion package President George W. Bush signed in February that also slashed health care funding, child-support enforcement and several programs for low-income families. A $70 billion tax giveaway to the rich is awaiting congressional action.

To counter the attack on the education of our nation's children, the AFL-CIO, AFT, NEA and other unions and student groups are lining up in a "Reverse the Raid on Student Aid" campaign to make a college education more affordable for working family students.

New legislation (S. 2573, H.R. 5150) introduced by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) would:

* Reverse scheduled student loan interest rate hikes the Bush spending cut package will impose July 1.
* Fully fund the Pell Grant program.
* Make it easier for students and their families to consolidate their student loans.

"The AFT firmly believes that the role of the federal government is to increase access to higher education," says Gabriella Gomez, a higher education specialist in AFT's legislative department. "Until now, there has been very little done in the president's budget to ensure that access is a reality. This legislation is a definite step in the right direction, and we hope that other members of Congress will follow suit."

Durbin and Miller point out that the average tuition at a four-year public college has jumped 40 percent since 2001 (adjusted for inflation) and the average student borrower is saddled with a $17,500 debt after graduation.

"Congress should be making college more affordable, but instead Washington Republicans chose to put college further out of reach for American students and their families," Miller says.

The heart of the bill would cut interest rates in half--saving the student with the $17,500 debt some $5,600 over the loan's life. The other key provision would fully fund the Pell Grant program and boost the maximum grant to $5,800, compared with the $4,050 limit the Republican-controlled Congress has imposed by underfunding the program.

"The legacy of this White House and Congress to date has been broken promises and historic funding cuts that put college even further out of reach for millions of American students and their families," Durbin says.



by Mike Hall
Forgive me for gloating. But, I am just finding extreme pleasure in this!


Advisor: So Mr. President, how's our commander in chief feeling these days?
President (off-screen):  Yeah, I'm fine, fine.
Advisor: Oh, you're a lot better than fine.  The war's over like you said.  Missions accomplished Georgie baby.

President (off screen): Huh?
Advisor: I'm sorry, that probably doesn't seem appropriate for the king of the United States.  Yes I said "King."  Think about it.  You don't have to settle for just being President GW.  The war still got everyone running scared.  They'll go along with whatever you say.  Forget the rules and quit treating the Constitution like it's set in stone.  For starters, we should be eavesdropping on anybody  who has the nerve to disagree with you - court order or not.

President (off screen): What?
Advisor: It's not domestic spying George.  It's terrorist surveillance.
President (revealed as George Washington): Break the law? Ignore the Constitution?  What you propose goes against the very things we stand for.  As President of these United States, I would never condone that.

Feingold (voiceover): Our country hasn't stood for this kind of abuse of power for over two hundred years.  Let's not stand for it now.  Support the Progressive Patriots.  We can fight the terrorists without breaking the law or sacrificing our freedoms.  Authorized and paid for by the Progressive Patriots Fund.
April 24, 2006
Bush copyright bill supports wiretaps, expanded penalties

The Bush Administration has drafted legislation that expands restrictions on bypassing copy protection and gives police … wait for it … more wiretapping and enforecement powers, News.com reports. The bill will be introduced shortly to the House Judiciary Committee by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.)


During a speech in November, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endorsed the idea and said at the time that he would send Congress draft legislation. Such changes are necessary because new technology is "encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual-property theft," Gonzales said, adding that proceeds from the illicit businesses are used, "quite frankly, to fund terrorism activities."


Among the bill's provisions are several changes to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.


Under current law, Section 1201 of the law generally prohibits distributing or trafficking in any software or hardware that can be used to bypass copy-protection devices. . . . Smith's measure would expand those civil and criminal restrictions. Instead of merely targeting distribution, the new language says nobody may "make, import, export, obtain control of, or possess" such anticircumvention tools if they may be redistributed to someone else.

"It's one degree more likely that mere communication about the means of accomplishing a hack would be subject to penalties," said Peter Jaszi, who teaches copyright law at American University and is critical of attempts to expand it.



Many more changes in the new bill. Read the News.com article for all the gory details.

The Incredible Shrinking National Security Gap

by Ruy Teixeira



While it is way too soon to say the Democrats are out of the woods on this one (see, for example, the results of the latest CBS News poll,
which still show the Democrats with considerable ground to make up in
several national security-related areas), it is nevertheless striking
just how much the GOP's formerly crushing advantage on national
security and handling terrorism has been shrinking.



Exhibit A in this regard is the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll.
In this poll, Democrats actually have a one point advantage over the
GOP (46-45) on handling the "U.S. campaign against terrorism"--a
stunning improvement over the 36-point deficit Democrats faced in
December 2002 (61-25 percent).



Another example of this trend is the most recent Ipsos-AP poll,
where the Democrats are in a tie with Republicans (41-41) on "Who do
you trust to do a better job of protecting the country" (41-41).
Finally, consider this very interesting question asked by
Garin-Hart-Yang Research for the DSCC:



Suppose for a moment that you were deciding your vote for Congress
SOLELY on the question of who you trusted more to protect America's
national security and have the right policies for combating terrorism.
If this were the ONLY issue you were considering, would you be more
likely to vote for a Democrat or a Republican?



The result: 41 percent said they'd vote for the Democrat and only 39
percent for the Republican. Somehow I don't think this would have been
the response a year or two ago.



If the GOP loses the national security card, what do they have left?
What indeed. As GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio recently said, referencing
the Ipsos-AP results: "These numbers are scary. We've lost every
advantage we've ever had. The good news is Democrats don't have much of
a plan. The bad news is they may not need one."



And what if Democrats did actually have a compelling plan on, say,
national security? Fabrizio does not address this possibility, but
presumably that would mean even bigger trouble for his party. Stay
tuned: the saga of the incredible shrinking national security gap may
not be over yet.




Posted by EDM staff at 10:53 AM | link

 

NPI WEBCAST 4/19: The Millennials - The Next Great Generation That Will Transform Politics

The Millennials, the massive generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, are now just beginning to make their immense impact on politics. They have all the ingredients to transform politics in the coming decade: they are as big as the Baby Boom, are completely at home with the new technologies and media, are unusually civic-minded, and are clearly trending towards progressive politics. All signs point to these young people being not just voters, but powerful political actors.

Join us Wednesday for our event on the political impact of the Millennial Generation via simultaneous webcast if you are outside the Washington area. It will be available at www.newpolitics.net when the event begins. If you have colleagues within the area who might be interested, please forward this lunch invitation to them. We're particularly interested in younger colleagues, the Millennials themselves, those aged 28 and under.

the New Politics Institute explains the opportunity that's opening up with the arrival of the Millennials, and presents the results of a new national survey that explores their political attitudes and values, at a lunch gathering. The two-hour event will feature William Strauss, one of the nation's preeminent generational experts and coauthor of Millennials Rising; Jack MacKenzie, a Senior Vice President and leader of the Millennial Strategy Group at Frank Magid Associates, one of the nation's top media research firms that did the survey; and Molly Neitzel, the young executive director of Music For America, which is geared to mobilizing Millennials into politics. NPI Director Peter Leyden, former Managing Editor of Wired magazine, will host the event.

Event Details:

The Millennials: The Next Great Generation That Will Transform Politics
***Live Webcast Begins at Noon***

This is part of NPI's Coming America series, which looks at the huge demographic shifts, like the explosive growth of Hispanics, changing the political landscape of our country. For more information check out: www.newpolitics.net
Dear Friend,

Last year ABC, CBS, and NBC refused to air a commercial created
by the United Church of Christ. Recently, ALL THE NETWORKS
rejected the UCC's newest commercial that names the rejection so many people say they experience from organized religion.

Rejection of paid advertising by the networks is just the
beginning. For example - James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Richard Land and Gary Bauer have together racked up 36 appearances on the Sunday news talk shows, including Meet the Press and Face the Nation, during the past eight years.

Principle leaders of the United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), American Baptist Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, among others, haven't appeared once!

It is apparent that the Religious Right political leaders have joined forces to keep mainline religious leaders off the airwaves.

Please add your voice to the growing number of Americans who are
calling on the networks to give equal access to progressive religious voices on television.

By going to this site and sending a message to the networks, you can help open our broadcast airwaves to mainline religious voices and find out more about this issue.

Follow this link to sign up:
Link
Go to Bill Frist's VOLPAC website and let him know he's just flat wrong.

Leave a comment on his blog under the item entitled "Feingold Flat Wrong On Censure".

Click Here

Let's echo the sentiments left by one commentor who said, "I support Senator Feingold's call for censure of President Bush. This isn't impeachment; it isn't removal from office; it is a clear expression that the President has overstepped his authority. I thought we were done with permitting presidents to act like ordinary crime bosses, authorizing breaking and entering, assault and battery, and routine violations of our civil rights. We know from past presidents (see L.B. Johnson and R.M. Nixon) that "executive privilege" is a slippery slope because it permits one person to decide what's legal or not. That's inconsistent with the our laws, beginning with the Constitution that so many have bled for. I salute Sen. Feingold and his courage."

Let Frist know that we don't support Bush's criminal acts!
Click HERE
I find it extremely offensive that the theocracy-to-be that the Dobsons of the world demand America become is acceptable to anyone claiming to be either a Christian, or a red-blooded American.

A theocracy which strips persons of their free will shows little faith in the concept of freedom and the concept of individual relationship with God.

Submission to group-think religiosity resulted in the Taliban. Any American, any Christian, who would allow the Talibangelicals to define who were are as American citizens are deluding themselves and others about what it means to live as one Nation under God. Without freedom we will neither have a Nation, nor a relationship with God.
It's time to stop this government from producing fake news. Our senators are now voting on legislation that would bar the government from using our tax dollars to create deceptive propaganda.

Join me in supporting the "Truth in Broadcasting Act of 2005" at:

Link

Fox News Channel's political agenda is coming to a local television station near you.

Roger Ailes, the architect behind the right-wing tilt of cable news, is now remaking 35 local television stations -- broadcasting to nearly 40 percent of America's homes -- in Fox News Channel's image.

Tell News Corp., local stations and Congress: "Don't Fox with my local news!" at:

Link

Ailes plans to replace local news and information with the biased infotainment that's a hallmark of Fox News Channel. He has moved oversight of the local station group to Fox News headquarters in New York. He has flown in local news personalities for retraining on how to deliver the news Fox-style.

This month, he replaced station programming with "Geraldo at Large," a show produced out of Fox News' studios. Other Fox News Channel programs -- a lineup that includes Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity -- are waiting in the wings.

One thing seems certain: With Roger Ailes in charge, local news will take a turn for the worse.

Media consolidation made Ailes' takeover of local news possible. News Corp. already owns both a Fox and a UPN affiliate in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago -- the country's three biggest markets -- and other duopolies in six more of the top 20 markets, including Dallas, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C.

Click here for an interactive map of Fox-owned stations:

Link

As I write this, News Corp.'s lobbyists are schmoozing officials in Washington to further loosen regulations that prohibit one company from owning even more local news outlets. Instead, we need to break up the big media conglomerates and get higher quality news and information in return for free use of the public's airwaves.

As you've proven with Sinclair Broadcasting, "payola pundit" Armstrong Williams and the partisan attack on public broadcasting, mobilized citizens can stop media abuses. Now it's time to keep News Corp. from turning the public airwaves into a mouthpiece for Fox News Channel.

You can stop the "Fox Effect" on local news by signing our declaration now:

Link

We will deliver your declaration to the doorsteps of Fox-owned stations and directly to Fox News headquarters and Congress. But we'll also be organizing, community by community, to pressure federal regulators to stop Big Media's march against local control. We're gathering forces for an upcoming ownership fight at the FCC. To protect local media from corporate consolidation, millions of Americans need to stand up and be counted.
I've made two committments. I am committed to Voting All The Way Down the Ticket. When in doubt vote Dem.

Democrats consider themselves to be deeply principled and thoughtful in voting. That's fine, but it has lost us elections down ticket. What I mean is that we see a name on the ticket that we know nothing about and skip that section creating an "Under Vote". That is where the Republicans beat us every time. If they see an (R) following a name they will vote it.

We have got to stop sweating the details. We have got to have a little faith in the recruitment of candidates and just vote a straight Dem Ticket and feel good about it.

I personally know someone who ran for office and who lost by the "Under Vote". Had all eligible democrats in the district continued to vote the straight ticket, instead of skipping that particular section, the candidate would have won, just based on the number of Dems who had voted in the upper section of the ticket. That is absolutely unacceptable. So, the Republican candidate wins by virtue of the fact that spineless Dems can't vote for someone they "know nothing about".

It is time for us to get a spine and at least say with conviction that ANY Democrat has got to be better than ANY Republican! Do you think the Republicans spend time wringing their hands and worrying about who that unknown quantity was that they voted for WAY DOWN the Ticket? They just don't. And we are loosing races because of our hyper-intellectualism.

I am sitting here at my computer looking at my over-stuffed email "inbox" and wondering what I can personally take responsibility for. I have mail from Moveon.org, Progressnow, Halliburton Watch, Common Dreams, Walmart Watch, BuyBlue, Michael Moore, Environment Colorado, CoPIRG, Working Assets, Colorado Dems, DNC, DCCC, DSCC, DLC, ColoDLC....

I am connected, tuned in, completely networked. None of that matters if Democrats don't vote for Democrats. It is time to take on a new committment and a new mantra. IT'S THE AGENDA, STUPID!
My objective, initially would be to post original essays or thoughts, and to sometimes provide links to other useful pieces of information.

I am fortunate to be well networked, tuned in and turned on to many people and information resources.

I was contacted by an individual who sent me some appalling information and I thought it really needs to get out there. So, this time it is more important to pass this on than to spend time on a personal rant.

Blackwater Down: Fresh From Iraq, Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunity

Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Link to "Blackwater Down"

In this week's cover story in The Nation, Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reports on how mercenaries from private security firms like Blackwater USA and BATS are patrolling the streets in New Orleans. [includes rush transcript]

In his article in The Nation, Jeremy Scahill writes:

"As business leaders and government officials talk openly of changing the demographics of what was one of the most culturally vibrant of America's cities, mercenaries from companies like DynCorp, Intercon, American Security Group, Blackhawk, Wackenhut and an Israeli company called Instinctive Shooting International (ISI) are fanning out to guard private businesses and homes, as well as government projects and institutions. Within two weeks of the hurricane, the number of private security companies registered in Louisiana jumped from 185 to 235. Some, like Blackwater, are under federal contract. Others have been hired by the wealthy elite"

* Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now! correspondent.
- Read Jeremy Scahill's article: "Blackwater Down"
In June of 1987 John Naisbitt wrote:
"During time of great change, people seek some kind of structure. Such a search for parameters accounts in part for the current religious revival. Hundreds of new churches have been established during teh last two decades, helped in part by electronic media; many of these churches have highly structured fundamentalist beliefs...."

This prescient statement appeared in a forward to reprint of Marilyn Ferguson's revolutionary book, The Aquarian Conspiracy.

Ferguson expressed the hope that a powerful, but leaderless network would bring about radical change in the United States.

Every goal was well articulated concerning changing the establishment from within.

But, something went very, very wrong. Once the change agents infiltrated the establishment they lost ground, they sold-out and their bright flames were snuffed.

It's time to revisit the conspiracy, and learn what went wrong. IMHO I think the leaderless nature was the problem. It is time to create ALPHA LIBERALS.

"Along the far left, the rhetoric is too shrill in tone and anti-authoritarian in attitude to signal fitness for any kind of leadership. These are the howls of the malcontented, the powerless, the wounded animals flailing for attention".

CLICK HERE for a fantastic essay on the Missing Link: Democrats vs. GOP, The Alpha Male Deficit   Read More »
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