The Powell Memo: Part I
In an historical arc that began almost forty years earlier, Citizens United was the culmination of actions promulgated in The Powell Memo, aka The Powell Manifesto.
Tag: William Rehnquist
Carpet Bombing Agrabah
41% of Donald Trump supporters support the bombing of the city of “Agrabah.” Unfortunately for them, the strategic value of same would be nil, since Agrabah was the capital of Princess Jasmine’s homeland in the animated Disney cartoon, “Alladin.” Ted Cruz voters prefer it be carpet bombing, to see if they could “make the sand glow in the dark.”
A Bridge To The 19th Century (Update)
In my post Monday Don’t Let The Economic Terrorists Win, I drew a brief but straight line between the the union busting attempts of Wisconsin Governor Scott ‘Wanker” Walker, and Naomi Klein‘s thesis of economic terrorism desscribed in her book The Shock Doctrine. On last night’s show, Rachel Maddow interviewed Klein after detailing a hideous piece legislation that just passed …
