Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 15:52 By Calvin Trillin
With curses, guns and red-faced rants,
Here comes the wing-nut faction.
The right wing’s leaders smile and say,
“Democracy in action.”
Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 20:01 I’ve just read another great editorial by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services, called ‘Guns That Talk’. As Koehler says, “it’s like truth or dare. And it’s legal.”
Isn’t it puzzling that guns outside an event where Obama is going to speak is alright, but a T-shirt message at a Bush event warranted getting taken away by the Secret Service. Do these same gun toters and their defenders remember that we’ve had four presidents and one presidential candidate assassinated, not to mention Gerald Ford staring down a would be assassin and James Brady taking a bullet for Reagan?
Even more disturbing are those who would not only defend this type of ‘free speech’ but encourage it. Yes, encourage it during some of the most heated summers of public discourse in recent memory. Free speech has taken on some curious meaning in these troubled times. I call it wildly irresponsible.
You have to ask ‘Why?’
Friday, August 14, 2009 at 22:39 AARP and their other site HealthActionNow.org have a lot of great articles and information on the myths surrounding health care reform that are viral now, being passed around by right wing front groups and their minions that have been planted in Town Hall meetings.
Challenge your assumptions!
Get the real facts. And please, the next time somebody over the age of 60 tells you that the government shouldn’t involve itself in healthcare, ask them when they plan to dump Medicare, or their VA medical benefts or military TriCare benefits for straight private sector insurance.
Five will get you ten they won’t…
