Regressive Watch: An Eye on Right Wing Politics
Letter to Sandy |
| April 29, 2013 3:49 am |
In this prose poem, Gun addresses a history of violence from gang crime to mass shootings in a letter to Sandy Hook. |
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gun control, sandy hook, mass shootings, assault weapons, firearms, NRA, gun crimes |
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Checkmate |
| March 5, 2013 2:08 am |
Checkmate is an original political poem by up and coming writer Kenneth S. Fomunung. He examines the inequality in our society and the idea that the common people are nothing more than pawns to be used and expended by the power brokers of our time. |
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rhetoric, hate, intolerance, bigotry, misogyny, GOP, Far Right Side |
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Why a Fiscal Cliff? |
| January 31, 2013 10:34 am |
The problem with Republicans in power is they don’t have any desire to govern. They just want to enjoy the perks that come with power to satisfy their desires for self-aggrandizement. |
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GOP, Michael Brown, royalty, perks, no desire to govern |
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An Interview with Two Disabled American Veterans |
| January 19, 2013 5:19 am |
Tracy Brownlee sits down with two disabled veterans and gets their take on the current state of US politics, their feelings about the Obama Presidency, and their reactions to the current incarnation of the GOP. |
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republican politics, regressive agenda, GOP economic policy, economic recovery, Christian right, veterans, disabled veterans, disability, fixed income, veterans treatment |
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Race is Sexuality |
| January 15, 2013 11:31 am |
William Turner examines the parallels between racism and homophobia and argues Conservative characterizations of LGBT and African Americans spring from the same abstractions in popular Conservative thought. |
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Christian right, disenfranchise, gay, gay rights, gop politics, homophobia, homosexual, inequality, intolerance, jim crow, LGBT, marriage equality, racism |
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A Teacher’s View on School Safety: A Response to the Newtown Tragedy |
| January 5, 2013 1:42 am |
An experienced educator offers insights on school safety, ideas for improvement, and discusses the problems involved in implementing and maintaining such programs. |
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school safety, Newtown shooting, school violence, school safety drills |
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Memories of Jim Crow |
| November 14, 2012 7:32 pm |
The author recounts a childhood memory of the ugliness of the Jim Crow system when she for the first time noticed how African Americans were dehumanized in the euphemistically titled “Separate but Equal” policies of the old South and compares it to post election GOP behavior. |
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Jim Crow, racism, separate but equal, right wing radio, Dennis Miller, racial hatred, regressive right |
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Nameless City |
| November 8, 2012 1:14 am |
A dark poem examines the effects and consequences of the War on Drugs and the concomitant prison industrial complex in a surrealist interpretation, includes a graphic illustration by the author. |
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prison indistrial complex, war on drugs, incarceration, prison |
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America’s War on Drugs: An Ongoing Moral Panic |
| October 22, 2012 2:58 pm |
The US century old war on drugs is not a war against intoxicating substances. It's a war against people--usually people of color--and the ultimate expression of Fundamentalist Protestant prerogative power exported to the world. |
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Christian hate, Christian right, Christianity, disenfranchise, george h. w. bush, george w bush, jim crow, lyndon johnson, national crises, political dissidents, prerogative power, protestant, regressive agenda, republican politics, richard nixon, ronald reagan, viet nam war, war on drugs, drug war, anti-catholic, protestant ethic, drug abstinence, abstinence, tee-total, Christian fundamentalism, zero tolerance, just say no |
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2016: Obama's America--Bad Remake of the Manchurian Candidate? |
| October 16, 2012 12:52 am |
NeoCon and avowed Obama hater Dinesh D'Souza‘s movie is no more a documentary than Fox News is fair and balanced. It’s propaganda, designed to cash in on the anti-Obama sentiment of the Radical Right who will no doubt believe it as easily as they do the distortions, misinformation, and outright lies of the GOP and Fox News. |
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2016: Obama's America, Dinesh D'Souza, far right, gop politics, hate speech, intolerance, Manchurian Candidate, NeoCon, Obama hater, radical right, regressive agenda, republican politics, right wing politics |
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America |
| October 10, 2012 11:45 pm |
America, a new poem, asks hard questions about where we are and where we're going. Will we be a tryanny of the masses, will we care for the poor, elderly, and homeless. Or will we continue down the road of the ME generation into darkness. |
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avarice, pollution, liberty, tyranny, democracy, homeless, hungry, intolerance, enslavement, tyranny of masses |
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Global Warming |
| September 29, 2012 9:42 pm |
These photos are of the dead trees left in the wake of the Texas heat wave and drought in the summer of 2011. The unprecedented heat wave--the hottest summer ever recorded--kept temperatures above the 100 degree mark for weeks. |
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climate change, drought, enviroment, extreme weather, fossil fuel effects, global warming. heat wave |
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Who Would Jesus Hate? |
| September 28, 2012 6:40 pm |
From making public proclamations of faith to engaging in intolerance, hate speech, and avarice to failing to act with grace, the Radical Religious Right falls short in every aspect of the Christian code of conduct delineated in the New Testament and in honoring the message of their chosen messiah. |
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Christian behavior,Christian conduct, Christian etiquette, Christian hate, Christian right, Christianity, hate speech, Jesus, religion |
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The Trench |
| September 11, 2012 7:15 pm |
This short story presents a haunting vision of a United States where the Radical Religious Right has gained complete power and is free to execute its vision of a theocratic government based on their interpretation of scripture. For some it’s the utopia they prayed for where Purity is no longer a matter of choice but a matter of law, a world where church attendance isn’t a choice but a duty, a world where religious fervor abounds. |
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religious right, radical right, theocratic goverment, American Taliban, far right |
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Big Money, Romney-Ryan, & The Way of the Guerilla Warrior |
| September 2, 2012 4:00 am |
Here's a plan to deafeat Romney-Ryan and their big money backers, foster quantitative easing, and promote job creation. Using the guerilla warfare techniques outlined in Ho Chi Min's The Way of the Guerilla Warrior. Author Wayne James argues Progressives can wreak havoc on the Romney-Ryan campaign of lies, distortions, misinformation, and big money with a corresponding Progresssive campaign of misinformation and misdirection. |
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defeat GOP, stop the mega-money, defeat romney ryan, economic opportunity,. economic recovery, far right, gop politics, radical right, regressive agenda, regressive politics, right wing politics, romney-ryan, romney-ryan for president, sheldon adelson, wall street, citizens united |
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Our Cost of Empire |
| August 26, 2012 5:34 pm |
This historical portrait deconstructs the underlying causes and costs of the failed War on Drugs (WOD) as well as the factors motivating it. He elucidates the high cost of the Cold War, the Military Industrial Complex, and the cost of the mass incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex created by the War on Drugs--now morphed into the New Jim Crow. |
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Battle of Midway, censorship, communism, cost of empire, disenfranchise, drug war, economic, economic distress, economic recovery, economy, empire, entheogens, global empire, gop politics, Herbert Hoover, hippies, J. Edgar Hoover, jim crow, LBJ, Mc Carthyism, protest, right wing politics, spiritual connection, tax rates, tax revenue, thought crime, top 1% share of income, unemployment, Viet Nam, war on drugs, war protests, wealth redistribution, world police, world power, WW II |
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Texas Judge Prophecies Civil War When Obama Re-Elected |
| August 25, 2012 1:50 pm |
The author responds to remarks made by Lubbock County Judge Tom Head, with the support of Lubbock County Commissioner Mark Heinrich, when they both appeared on Lubbock's Fox News affiliate to spread reactionary rhetoric reminiscent of the Jim Crow era this past week. |
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civil war, class war, class warfare, disenfranchise, far right, fascism, gop politics, inequality, jim crow, national crises, racism, radical right, regressive agenda, regressive politics, republican politics, revolution, right wng, tom head, war on drugs |
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What's Wrong with the US Economy? |
| August 23, 2012 11:18 pm |
Historical income share data and the lessons of the Great Depression demonstrate cutting taxes on the top one percent and the inequality this creates leads not to job creation but to economic disaster and discontent. |
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austerity, bill clinton, depression, economic, economic distress, economic opportunity, economic recovery, economy, far right, fascism, george h. w. bush, george w bush, GOP economic policy, gop politics, inequality, job creators, money, national crises, radical right, recession, regressive agenda, regressive politics, republican politics, tax rates, top 1% share of income, unemployment, wealth redistributed, wealth redistribution |
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What Does Todd Akin Mean by Legitimate Rape? |
| August 21, 2012 10:24 pm |
The author responds to to Todd Akins remarks regarding pregnancy resulting from rape and urges Akin to remove himself from public life. |
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claire mccaskill, far right, legitimate rape, missouri senate race, radical right, regressive agenda, regressive politics, republican politics, right wing agenda, right wing politics, todd akin, woman’s right to choose |
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