Recent content by longleaf

New Mexico had 50% Hispanic turnout in the 2006 off-year elections compared to 25% in Texas. http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=4316 I can't find the turnout for 2010, but I am pretty sure EVEN MORE Hispanics stayed away from the polls last year.

In Texas, supposedly the Hispanics were enthusiastically for George W. Bush. I never believed the percentage of Hispanic votes he was alleged to have gotten while running for Governor twice and then President twice, but the GOPers definitely made that claim. They also used to say that Hispanics...

"The poor, will be taking care of by all the "Assistance" that the States, Gov and muni's provide until that money runs out." This is not true anymore. Even Obama is proposing cutting LIHEAP. The poor are finally going to be left to their own devices, it looks like...

Cheney/Bush transformed the executive branch into an all-powerful entity, unable to be checked and balanced anymore. They even put out the word, when impeachment rumblings began to be felt after their party lost Congress, that they would just declare a state of emergency, dissolve Congress and...

I think one reason the spending on the military-industrial complex goes unchecked might have to do with the investment portfolios of the various representatives in the House and Senate of the "war party." The "war party" also has been convinced by AIPAC of the necessity of Uncle Sam forever...

As long as they can classify it as "defense" or "national security" or "homeland security," the goobers down South where I am will eat it up. Even the Tea Party types will boo and shout down ANYONE who dares to suggest our "defense" budget be cut. It can only be increased—massively. What...

I think Obama, as he himself has said, is the only thing standing between the Wall Street banks and the mobs with pitchforks. The so-called "financial reform" bill has been watered down as it has progressed through the legislative process and his administration has played a role in doing so...

Demand was pulled forward for too long. As for taxes, the ARRA did lower taxes for most taxpayers. Maybe they weren't lowered for the top few percentiles, so you don't hear any applause for this sort of tax cut from the corporate media.

It's not the first time they'd ever done that. And the previous one went on to become President.

What is wrong with that explanation, even if I agreed with it, is that it ignores the "free rider" phenomenon of not just the developing world, but developed regions of Europe and Asia as well. Plus, most of the countries "we" have bombed and occupied in recent decades had committed no acts of...