Today is “Everybody Blog about Pigford Day.” In the old days, we’d call it a “blogburst.” It’s been said:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. (Alexander Fraser Tytler?) Read more →



























Republican Rebranding Nonsense – Paul Hollrah
Republican Rebranding Nonsense
by Paul R. Hollrah
In a speech at the National Press Club on Monday, March 18, establishment Republicans rolled out their “Democrat-lite” strategy for making Republicanism a bit more attractive to Democrats – a strategy much favored by architects of defeat such as John McCain, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush. Read more →