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- 497 Views
- 7 Comments
Voters face choice election, not referendum, in 2012
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 3:46PM
Topics: governing, gilded age, success, big government, american dream, jobs, poverty, health insurance, congress, white house, authoritarianism, public interest, republican virtue, monarchy, gordon wood, american revolution, redistribution, collectivism, individualism, patriotism, citizenship, dnc, rnc, we built it!, laissez faire, survival of the fittest, social darwinism, great recession, great depression, constitution, abraham lincoln, republics, democracy, financial crisis, choice election, referendum election, tea party, democratic party, republican party, 2012 election, president obama, mitt romney, economics, politics
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- 42 Views
- 0 Comments
September 19, 2012: American Hope Part Three
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 10:26AM
Topics: stuff we should analyze, hope in america, great depression, cinderella man, franklin roosevelt
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- 137 Views
- 1 Comments
The Blue Taffeta Dress
AUGUST 19, 2012 8:10AM
Topics: poverty, great depression, 1930s, pie suppers, rural farm community, taffeta, depression era children's plays, 1930s missouri, basket dinners, blue taffeta dress, christmas program
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- 140 Views
- 1 Comments
Seasonal Farming Tasks in the Great Depression
JULY 26, 2012 9:11AM
Topics: poverty, drought, corn, missouri, letty owings, great depression, rural farming, potato bugs, gunny sack, cutworms, evangelical, coal oil, harrow
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- 260 Views
- 2 Comments
Days on the Farm in 1934
JULY 22, 2012 4:05PM
Topics: 1930s, farming, 53 days over 100, 1934, farming during drought, great depression, missouri, malaria, letty owings, drought, poverty, drought open call
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- 350 Views
- 0 Comments
Tramp Art: Not Made by Tramps
JULY 17, 2012 5:16PM
Topics: art, tramps, crafts, great depression
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- 1433 Views
- 9 Comments
Romney trying to take us Back to the Future
JUNE 18, 2012 11:00AM
Topics: politics, economics, mitt romney, welfare state, new deal, republican party, right wing, david brooks, tea party, debt ceiling crisis, fiscal crisis, supply side capitalism, new deal, franklin d. roosevelt, democratic party, president obama, newt gingrich, great depression, radicalism, george w. bush, compromise, mitch mcconnell, tax code, ronald reagan, washington monthly, obamacare, stimulus spending, filibuster, etch-a-sketch, dwight eisenhower, safety net, liberalism, conservatism, tax cuts, deregulation, paul ryan budget, auto rescue, national debt, republicans in name only
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- Editor's Pick
- 2175 Views
- 20 Comments
Middle Class: “Help, I’m MELTING!”
JUNE 14, 2012 8:35AM
Topics: politics, economy, joseph stiglitz, the price of inequality: how today's divided society endangers our future, fed survey, economic meltdown, middle class, loss of net worth, democracy now, amy goodman, jamie dimon, great recession, great depression
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- 708 Views
- 14 Comments
A Short History of Spam (non-academic, yet true)
JUNE 11, 2012 1:42AM
Topics: hormel, spam, email, forums, bbs, marketing flood, usenet, darpanet, darpa, arpanet, arpa, usaf, us air force, defense department, hawaii, monty python, python programming language, skit, comedy, broadcast, internet, smartphones, smart phone, ipad, mp3 player, shoulder pork and ham, spiced ham, great britain, great depression, creation of spam, spam email, spammers, porn, computer science, geeks, funny, vikings, connections by james burke, james burke, connetions, commercial, capitalist, capitalism, nuclear attack, command and control, universities, colleges, college, education, degree, pbs, history, true, wikipedia, financial hard times, spam protest fest, seven trillion spam messages a year, stop spam, captcha, recaptcha, flood, blocking, time drain, productivity drain, cost of spam on commerce
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- 1152 Views
- 12 Comments
When Robots Make American Work Ethic Obsolete
JUNE 3, 2012 2:14PM
Topics: politics, economics, capitalism, supply-side capitalism, foxwoods casino, automation, robots, work ethic, moral values, religion, slot machines, downsizing, unemployment, free market, keynesian economics, great depression, great recession, stimulus spending, wall street journal, austerity, paul krugman, housing bubble, dot.com bubble, weapons of mass destruction, paradox of development, safety net, farming, creative destruction, entrepreneurialism, leisure class, monied interests, landed elite, john adams, labor market, hysteresis, economic recovery, business cycle, structural economic change
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- Editor's Pick
- 1642 Views
- 8 Comments
Democrats expected to do GOP's dirty work for it
MAY 29, 2012 6:24AM
Topics: politics, economics, republican party, democratic party, president obama, mitt romney, politifact, pants on fire liar, fedeal spending, tea party, deficits, joan walsh, american enterprise institute, ann coulter, wall street journal, david frum, fiscal austerity, economic crisis, herbert hoover, great depression, paul krugman, fiscal stimulus, conservative principles
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- 1515 Views
- 6 Comments
Mitt Romney's Lying is the Real Voter Fraud
APRIL 9, 2012 9:15AM
Topics: politics, right wing, republican party, mitt romney, acorn, voter fraud, voter suppression, conservative movement, atticus finch, to kill a mockingbird, democratic party, fox news, rachel maddow, lying, dana milbank, james fallows, medicare, great depression, president obama, politifact, chevrolet volt, false equivalence, mainstream media, conservative movement
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- 343 Views
- 0 Comments
The JOBS Act: Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
MARCH 20, 2012 6:33AM
Topics: p2, ows, tlot, tcot, jobs act, economy, glass-steagall, great depression
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- 576 Views
- 0 Comments
Forget Dodd-Frank: Reinstate Glass Steagall
FEBRUARY 20, 2012 9:44PM
Topics: dodd frank, glass steagall, great depression, economy, p2, tlot, tcot, occupywallstreet
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- 1337 Views
- 33 Comments
Mom and Rita Hayworth
FEBRUARY 3, 2012 12:17PM
Topics: i remember better when i paint, performing arts, museums, drawing, painting, great depression, jenny lind, alzheimer's disease, rita hayworth
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- 927 Views
- 6 Comments
Obama angers GOP by standing up for middle class
JANUARY 29, 2012 9:11AM
Topics: saul alinsky, clintonism, neo-liberalism, fox news, frank luntz, democratic party, fdr, great depression, 2008 financial crisis, state of the union address, wall street, southern strategy, populism, newt gingrich, thomas frank, middle class, supply side economics, rightt wing, tea party, president obama, republican party, economics, politics
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- 1263 Views
- 86 Comments
A Ragtime Ethical Culture
JANUARY 21, 2012 7:22AM
Topics: 'ragtime', dr. paul, mr. santorum, mr. gingrich, tittilation, doctorow, era of unchecked capitalism, wall street, great depression, 1933, fdr, government involvement w lives of rich and poor, billy zane, 'titanic', 'swells', 'twin peaks', population, income, housing, illness, homelessness, econ
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- 463 Views
- 0 Comments
Blowing up empty stomachs
JANUARY 11, 2012 11:34AM
Topics: great depression, homelessness, poverty, homeland security, military, wall street, banks, occupy wall street, design, business, technology, television, politics, news, health, environment, belief/religion
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- 520 Views
- 3 Comments
Obama is Correct but for the Wrong Reason
DECEMBER 17, 2011 10:28AM
Topics: great recession, depression of 1920, great depression, roosevelt, obama
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- 635 Views
- 0 Comments
Newt Gingrich and His Revisionist History
NOVEMBER 21, 2011 11:43AM
Topics: tea party, know-nothing, communist party usa, great depression, fascism, glenn beck, george bush, propaganda, conservatism, right wing, obama, liberals, republican party, gingrich
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