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Mark Karlin is founder, editor and publisher of BuzzFlash.com, a website providing headlines, news and commentary to over five million people a month. He is a gun control activist with a focus on Illinois.
(25 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 30, 2010 "In Guns We Trust": New Supreme Court Motto for U.S.
It is the handgun that makes so many white males feel impregnable, as if they were riding around with a turret gun in a Hummer. It's a vestige of the Confederacy; "I'm a white man and that allows me to do whatever I want and get away with it, so don't mess with me." It's not about the Constitution; it's about a hormonal psychology under siege.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 18, 2009 Pat Buchanan and the Long Goodbye
The psyche of the white male yearning for the patriarchal hierarachy was reassured by Bush as president -- who proved that any idiot white male could rise to the top of the pyramid, even if his strings were being pulled by two other white males: Cheney and Rove.
(57 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Isn't It Ironic Orly Taitz, "Birther" Leader, is Foreign Born and Raised Making Lunatic Claim Obama Wasn't Born in U.S.?
The birther movement is full of malcontents--anti-Semites, skinheads, political malcontents, white firsters, and a radical right wing Jew--in the case of Taitz, I speculate--who fears for Israel (in Netanyahu paranoid style) under Obama. The birthers are a group of psychos who would be shooting each other if they didn't share a common hatred of Obama and the fear of America becoming a nation where whites are in the minority.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, June 14, 2010 How the Reagan Revolution Succeeded: Strangling Government in a Bathtub and Destroying Public Services
Message to Obama, the dike has broken and the deluge is drowning what is left of American government, particularly at the state and local levels, and Grover Norquist is seeing his dream realized of seeing the public good breathe its last breath as its head is held under water until it breathes its last gasp.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, January 8, 2010 Who Says a Terrorist Attack Has to be In an Airplane? How the GOP Threatens Our Lives
Republicans endanger America by trying to score political points and forgetting how vulnerable we are to foreign "cell" attacks on the ground, but also the GOP and its media shills foment domestic terrorism that is an equal threat to our lives.
SHARE Saturday, August 8, 2020 What Happened When Israeli Schools Opened Early?
Science clearly informs us that premature opening of schools in-person will lead to student, teacher and extended family infection, and for some older persons (including teachers) death.
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 1, 2009 Dems in Despair Finally Find a Champion Who Won't Back Off Defending Sanity: Unlikely Hero Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida
We despair that too many Democratic senators (and Blue Dog House Representatives) not only don't have the courage of their convictions; they may not have any convictions other than getting campaign contributions from Big Money and Big Corporations. But Grayson stood up for the people of America over the corporations and corporate media in putting the facts, not the fictions, on the table -- and not backing down.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 27, 2010 Afghanistan, America's Longest War, and the Perfect Arc of Failure
Nothing has changed to improve our security in Afghanistan or Pakistan except that the area is even more volatile now. Nothing has changed except that a lot of contractors got rich, a lot of military higher ups got promoted, and a lot of politicians got to pretend they were Wyatt Earp.
(15 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 24, 2010 Right Wing is Ginning Up the Outrage Against TSA to Privatize Airport Security and Prevent Unionization
It is important to remember that the current outrage -- while personally understandable -- against the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) intrusive technology and pat-downs just happens to fit the anti-government narrative of both the Tea Party and mainstream Republicans in Congress.
SHARE Sunday, August 29, 2010 Martin Luther King Had a Dream and Glenn Beck Was Not in It
Glenn Beck's desecration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King and his ongoing coded racism are just two examples of whose side he is in the religious firmament, and it's not the side of the angels.
SHARE Thursday, April 16, 2020 Trump Intentionally Let the Coronavirus "Wash Over" America, a Failure by Design
It is astonishing that the media, in general, is letting Trump (who has been proven to be a mentally-ill man many times over) adopt the narrative about "opening the economy up" when the small outside-the-home workforce in place is becoming increasingly infected.
SHARE Thursday, August 27, 2009 FOX Won't Fire Glenn Beck: Here's Why
FOX is Rupert Murdoch's main vehicle for ensuring the continued and unquestioned greed of the corporate ruling class, and Beck is the most successful gutter carnival barker in terms of churning up hateful and igniting emotions that they have. He touches something so evil and primal in the chronically confused and white-firsters that he makes Hannity appear civil.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 12, 2009 Once Again, Jon Stewart, Decimates FOX's Credibility and Makes Hannity Confess
It was with hearfelt thanks that we saw Stewart bring FOX to their knees, actually forcing them to admit that they had used footage from a spring Teabagger rally to make Michele Bachmann's latest freak show gathering in D.C. appear much, much larger than it was.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 9, 2010 The Lies of "Conservatism" and the "Center" are Immoral
The created fiction of the "center" is used as an excuse for inaction on behalf of America's obscenely wealthy interests. The "center" is ever-moving, if only we had the leadership that was unbought to move it toward our aspirations and dreams, and to take advantage of the great skills of the American people.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 25, 2010 We Thought We Were Electing a Prius, and Got a Tank Instead: The Last Gasps of Empire'
President Obama has turned out to be perhaps the last President with the opportunity to cut us free from the past. And, instead, he holds onto that anchor is if it were a life jacket as it pulls us down, leaving us to look longingly at what might save us from afar. The promise of an evolving and sustainable America is within our reach, but thus far not within Obama's grasp.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 7, 2010 Terrorists and Their GOP Enablers Who Terrorize Us
The GOP wants to be the megaphone for the terrorists, turning America into a mass of quivering jelly so that they can assume dictatorial powers, as Cheney and Bush did. If you doubt it, just catch Dick Cheney on one of his FOX interviews to understand this syndrome.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 8, 2021 Why Texas Trumpster Governor Is Letting COVID Rage
There may be several cynical and deadly reasons that Texas Governor Greg Abbott completely abandoned any COVID restrictions in the second most populous state in the US. Texas has been a hotbed of COVID denialism among its entirely GOP executive branch.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Wanted for Murder: Antonin Scalia
Scalia was one of just two written dissenters (along with his puppet, Clarence Thomas), who ferociously challenged the notion that the Supreme Court should ensure that an innocent man not be put to death.
SHARE Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Axe the Filibuster and Pass HR 1
The Democrats own an abiding debt to Blacks, who have been steadfast supporters of the party in its modern incarnation, to guarantee their voting rights, instead of standing by as the Republicans steamroll voter exclusion.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 16, 2010 BP: Eco-Terrorism Inc. They Should be Prosecuted, Tried and Convicted Under Eco-Terrorism Laws Passed by the Right Wing
BP was too cheap to use methods that might have prevented the Gulf disaster and it lied to the government about having any real semblance of a safety plan. It has a long history of knowingly not taking adequate steps to prevent spills because BP figured that there was more profit in being fined than in the cost of preventing spills in the first place. If this isn't eco-terrorism, what is?
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, August 13, 2010 Message from Mars: Psycho GOP TX State Rep Claims "Jihad Moms" are Bearing Children in U.S. as Terrorist Moles
These psychos are like some rumor mongers out of the medieval ages, and they are dragging America backwards into the dark ages. They talk about procreating terrorists and "anchor babies," but they are the real anchors, pulling America down and preventing progress as the nation is in need of smart strategic thinking, not schizophrenic messages from Mars.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Courageous, Fierce, Brazen: 3 Words You'll Never Hear Applied to the Democrats in D.C.
Leadership requires those adjectives that the Democrats in D.C. scurry away from: courage, boldness, conviction. There is no Wizard of Oz. If the Dems want to speak with conviction and fearlessnes, they will have to summon the courage themselves -- and there's been little indication that they have the inherent capacity to do so.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 27, 2010 Throw the Top BP Executives and Its Two SubContractors in Federal Prison Until the Gulf Well is Capped and Damages Paid
We think imprisoning the 15 officials from the three companies would result in a timely stopping of the horrific amounts of oil polluting the Gulf and eventually the Atlantic Ocean. After all the corporations are people -- the Supreme Court ruled in January -- so let's apply the law as it should be applied under the concept of Corporate Personhood.
SHARE Sunday, June 27, 2010 Afghanistan, America's Longest War, and the Perfect Arc of Failure
The errant policy followed by both the Bush and Obama administrations has led us into a situation where we will be just where we were before the invasion of Afghanistan began. This is a failure of such stunning proportion that it would be a farce were it not so deadly, costly, and harmful to the American nation and what is needed to move us forward domestically.
SHARE Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Vigilance: The Public Option Could Easily Unravel Yet
Don't think anything is over. The sabotage efforts against the government option are in full swing in D.C., you can be sure. Vigilance and a loud, demanding voice are the best option for those who advocate the consumer option.
SHARE Saturday, January 23, 2010 Two Supreme Court GOP Coups Bracket a Decade
For America, it's been a decade of two Supreme Court coups that have stolen democracy and replaced it with something akin to activist right wing judicial rulings on behalf of the oligarchy that pulls the strings in D.C. Will we sit back and passively accept that corporations have the same rights to elect our government as people do?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Harry Reid: Speak Wobbly and Carry No Stick
Don't believe any rumors about Reid promising to sink the Stupak Amendment or including a stronger Public Option in the joint reconciliation bill with the House.
Harry swings like the wind, buffeted by forces from all sides that he has no inherent ability to keep in line.