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The Lineup: Week of Sept. 19-25, 2011
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With Poverty on the Rise, this is no Time to Slash the Safety Net
The increasingly extreme conservative ideology pervading Congress and the tea party is infused with a dogmatic creed of rugged individualism, used to justify policies that benefit only the super-rich and large corporations, while hurting — even killing — the rest of us.
Does the GOP Hate Women?
After suffering through several un-presidential GOP debates, I’m struck by the amount of anti-woman rhetoric spewing from the candidates. Although none of them dares utter the W word — unless it’s part of the phrase “our men and women in uniform” — it’s pretty easy to see what their views are on issues concerning the sex that comprises a majority of voters.
It’s Time to Study Social Security’s Origins
After a bubble economy burst, the stock market collapsed. Main street businesses began to fold and jobs soon vanished. Millions of job seekers remained unemployed as the months turned into years. Both government and personal debt soared. The best economic minds in America came together to find solutions and decided we needed a new program: Social Security.
Unemployed for Life?
It could well be a chapter straight out of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.
Heroes of the Republic
Stephen Colbert, every liberal’s favorite mock conservative, has taken to calling his viewers “heroes” as he exhorts them to contribute to his Super PAC.
A Perry Tale about the Prince of Privilege
In this one, Prince Rick is trying to make it to the big White House in Washington. It’s a strange quest, because he calls the capital city “a seedy place,” and he tells the commoners in the land that he hates — nay, deeply loathes — the very government that he wants to head.
Perry’s Feast
We Need an Armistice in the War on Drugs
Repealing Prohibition was easy by comparison. Pressure from “nice” people who wanted to drink legally again was overwhelming. Plus the liquor racketeers were just getting too involved in everyday life. After a while, the moral revolution that had originally fueled the crusade against alcohol finally flagged, and life returned to normal.
The Lineup: Week of Sept. 12-18, 2011
Donald Kaul parses one of Rick Perry’s controversial assertions about Social Security.
