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The Political Future of the US is Right-Wing — But What Sort of Right-Wing?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1453, 7th November, 2011
It is a gross simplification, but I’ll say it. The difference between liberalism and conservatism (as we use the terms in the US) is that liberals are fundamentally repulsed by some basic realities, while conservatives accept them. These basic realities include economic inequality, the human drive to be fruitful and multiply, the human tendency to [...]
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henry giroux on laissez-faire: the prototypical left-statist critique of right-statists

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1608, 19th July, 2010
The truth is definitely kept out at truth-out.org, where Henry Giroux has recently written an article entitled “The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism.”  It’s a typical left-statist propaganda piece, lashing out against right-statism and mistakenly calling it laissez-faire.  The article contains no small amount of bashing of its enemies as a bunch [...]
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yeah, about those hutaree people . . .

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0226, 30th April, 2010
Remember how just when you were all in the middle of being hot and bothered about the healthcare bill, a story suddenly came out illustrating how our countryside is filled with hateful conservative militia folk plotting to tear the country apart by killing innocent police?  Terrorists, these folks were called.  We were treated to angry [...]
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