Tag Archives: leftist

Flaccid in Mexico City

When you think of the numerous problems routinely facing residents of Mexico City, things like an astronomical violent crime rate, standstill traffic, urban poverty, collapsing infrastructure, chronic water shortages, claustrophobia-inducing overcrowding and toxic pollution might come to mind. Even aircraft … Continue reading

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Governor & Community

Credit given where due, this is a clever leftist button.

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The Left’s Lost Toy

Sever Plocker: “Palin’s candidacy has irritated many among the American leftist camp, and they have been responding like a child who has seen an expensive toy being taken away from him.”

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NOW and Then

Ken Davenport has a brutal piece in TWS this morning on the frankly rather embarrassing opposition of the National Organization of Women to Sarah Palin’s candidacy. It still astonishes me to no end that an organization which would be splendidly … Continue reading

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Big Oil, Big Taxation

photo: ccgd Mick at Uncorrelated picks up a Mark J. Perry story noting that ExxonMobil‘s annual average tax bill, nearly equals total taxes paid by the bottom 50% of individual taxpayers in 2004. In the leftist mind this is perhaps … Continue reading

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A New Blog to Spotlight: Greater Surbiton

Start off with a look at his wonderful post and photo’s on the destruction of Serbia’s oldest theater. Then poke around, read who he is. Enjoy. Yet another part of the antitotalitarian left searching for what that means anymore: A … Continue reading

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Swinging Liberals and Reagan Resentment

(photo: Marc Nozell) Matt Stoller at OpenLeft has a pretty interesting observation about the swing of the self-described “very liberal” constituency from Obama to Hillary over the course of the primaries: In Iowa, Obama beat Clinton by 16 points among … Continue reading

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