Revenge of the Reality-Based Community
By Bruce Bartlett I know that it’s unattractive and bad form to say “I told you so” when one’s advice was ignored yet ultimately proved correct. But in the wake of the Republican election debacle, it’s essential that conservatives undertake a clear-eyed assessment of who on their side was […]
President Obama Briefly Worried That His Unaccountable, Murderous Power Might Fall Into Republican Hands
From Reason by Matt Welch The first 61 words of this chilling and banal New York Times article are a perfect distillation of how grotesque power appears in the eye of Americans who wield it: Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his […]
How Did Third Party Candidates Perform in the Election?
By Lucas Eaves During this election cycle, IVN covered third party candidates to ensure voters could access information about the wide range of choices they had at the ballot box. Gary Johnson, from the Libertarian Party, received 1,139,562 votes which represents 0.9% of the popular vote. He is […]
Divided States of America: Nation Most Polarized in 70 Years
By Kyle Becker The Wall Street Journal has put the results of the 2012 election in historical perspective: there are more single-party controlled states than at any point in the last 70 years. There have been few times in this nation’s young history when Americans have been more […]
Young in G.O.P. Erase the Lines on Social Issues
New York Times John W. Adkisson for The New York Times A luncheon last month in Charlotte, N.C., explored how Republicans can attract young voters. By SUSAN SAULNY CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Matt Hoagland, the county leader of a group of young North Carolina Republicans, is busy trying to […]
One-Party Control Opens States to Partisan Rush
The framework for pan-secession continues to develop. New York Times CHICAGO — Come January, more than two-thirds of the states will be under single-party control, raising the prospect that bold partisan agendas — on both ends of the political spectrum — will flourish over the next couple of […]
Tribal America
On our suddenly race-obsessed politics. By Mark Steyn National Review To an immigrant such as myself (not the undocumented kind, but documented up to the hilt, alas), one of the most striking features of election-night analysis was the lightly worn racial obsession. On Fox News, Democrat Kirsten Powers argued […]
Some Thoughts on Golden Dawn
by Keith Preston
I have been asked by a fair number of ATS readers what my perspective is on the growing interest in Greece’s Golden Dawn. Here are my thoughts: I generally concur with leftist “watchdog” critic Matthew Lyons’
Greg Johnson, Kevin MacDonald, & Matt Parrott – Round Table on Secession
Matt Parrot sees a future of National Anarchist like groups exploding across North America. Counter-Currents Radio Greg Johnson, Kevin MacDonald, and Matt Parrott discuss a number of topics: Kevin MacDonald’s article “Disenfranchised White Males: Time for Secession“ The reaction to this article in Foreign Policy The prospects for […]
10 Myths About Obama and the Democrats
Delusions of the Liberal Intelligentsia By Jason Hirthler Counterpunch As we head into The Chosen One’s second term, it might be useful to explode a few of the chronic myths that cling to the man more tightly than his shadow. Myths that have helped liberal intelligentsia justify its […]
Once Again—Death of the Liberal Class
By Chris Hedges The presidential election exposed the liberal class as a corpse. It fights for nothing. It stands for nothing. It is a useless appendage to the corporate state. It exists not to make possible incremental or piecemeal reform, as it originally did in a functional capitalist […]
To Romney and the GOP Elites: What Goes Around Comes Around
By Ron Holland On November 6th a large percentage of the Ron Paul supporters (10% of the GOP electorate) in the primary season exited the corrupt GOP voting process, stayed home, watched our television screens (like I did) and followed through with our warning to the GOP establishment. […]
Voting By Sex, Age, Race, Money, And Education
businessinsider.com Henry Blodget 270 to Win The New York Times has an awesome graphical breakdown of voting data from the 2012 Presidential election. In case you had any doubt about how the country breaks down along gender, age, race, financial status, religion, education, and community lines, just have […]
Pretentious Voting Cunts
Khadija Umayyad dresses down democratards…
10 Good Reasons Not to Assassinate Obama
From Taki Mag. _____________ America has now elected its first half-black president to a second term, which, if you understand math, means that America has finally elected a fully black president to one term. A little more than half of America is gloating like drunken pigs on moonshine. […]
The Physical Appearance of Liberals
by Rachel Haywire
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” That is the old cliche, isn’t it? Of course many of us know better than to completely discount physical appearances. We look at Asians and assume they are smart. We look at African Americans and assume they are athletic. Biodiversity is an important part of human existence and to pretend like it doesn’t exist is to ignore the complexity of genetics.
A Vote of “No Confidence?”
Jack Donovan I fully expected Barack Obama to be elected to a second term as President of the United States of America. On Electorbation Day, I voted with my ass. Apparently, so did a lot of people, and that’s exactly the outcome I was hoping for.
Keith Preston interview with RT.com on Obama’s victory
7 Reasons the GOP Should Be Worried About Its Future
Tuesday night’s election result has left conservatives (and reportedly Romney himself) shell-shocked, dumbfounded and a little traumatized by the seemingly gravity-defying political skills of President Barack Obama. Obama, who has won reelection to the office of president with the
2012 Election Results and Pan-Secessionism
Why can’t progressives reach white Southern men?
salon.com By Lynn Parramore (Credit: AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari) This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The South’s comfort with the GOP is understandable, even predictable. But it shouldn’t be inevitable Ever since Neil Young sang about him, the white Southern man has been the symbol for all that is […]
Don’t Worry About A Romney Appointed Court
By William Kaufman Halloween has been over for nearly a week, but prepare yourselves for another autumn haunting this Tuesday: a swarm of Democratic liberal zombies, perhaps numbering in the millions, will darken the streets of the nation, staggering in desperate half steps toward the nearest polling place, […]
Fascism Under the Cloak of Liberalism
By Norman Pollack I use “fascism” here not as a cliché, but as an historical-structural formation principally rooted in the mature stage of capitalism, in which business-government interpenetration (what the Japanese political scientist Masao Maryuma called the “close-embrace” system) has created hierarchical social classes of wide differences in […]
The Conservative Vote: A Symposium
Mortimer62/flickr Independently minded conservatives may have no obvious candidate in this election, which pits two major-party exponents of the welfare-warfare state against one another, as well as a handful of minor-party contenders. Obamacare or Romneycare? Guantanamo or double Guantanamo? In this symposium, 29 of our writers confront the […]
No More Hope and Change!
Obama’s buildup of the military state has been at least as bad as Bush. The last 3 people to leave Guantamo have left dead, and many remain who are not guilty of any crime. We tripled the number of armed forces in Afghanistan. The DEA has engaged in […]
Support for Kill List and NDAA make Obama and Romney unfit for office
By Thomas Mullen TAMPA, November 2, 2012 – It wasn’t so long ago that the following statement could only appear in a dystopian novel or movie script: The U.S. President has killed an American citizen without due process, without even charging him with a crime. His decision to […]
Obama Supporters Have Their Priorities in Order
Ice Cube exposes the System
Secession—it’s all the rage
By Wufnik Scholars & Rogues If Barack Obama wins a second term in the White House, Frank Rich has suggested, the Right is going to go absolutely nuts. I suspect Rich is correct—we haven’t seen anything like the rage that will consume the Right, who have up to […]
Netanyahu Announces Coalition With a Nationalist Party
By Isabel Kershner The New York Times The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced Thursday that his conservative Likud Party would run on a joint ticket with the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu Party in January elections. The surprise joining of forces immediately shook up Israel’s political map and […]
The Winner of the Election: George W. Bush
By Anthony Gregory I’m calling the election. The winner will be George W. Bush. Whether Obama serves a second term or hands the reins to Romney, we will face another four years of Bush’s policies.
Alex Jones Interviews Jesse Ventura
Presidency 2012
President Obama is seeking re-election to a second term in 2012. A large crowd of Republican candidates are competing for the GOP nomination. Plus there are LOTS of third party and independent P2012 hopefuls. So, if a person is running –regardless of party, ballot status, or chances of […]
Social Adjustment: Washington’s young conservatives ponder life in the minority
By Michael Brendan Dougherty America’s Future Foundation (AFF), a group geared towards ambitious young Washington conservatives like me, usually holds its monthly roundtable discussions at the Fund for American Studies on New Hampshire Avenue. At each meeting, a spread of wine, beer, chips, and guacamole makes a welcome […]
A Goldwater of the Left
By Pat Buchanan Joe Seer / Shutterstock Early in Ronald Reagan’s second term, Bill Rusher, the publisher of National Review, was interviewing the president in the Oval Office for a documentary on the conservative movement. Rusher asked how he would describe Barry Goldwater’s role. Reagan thought a moment […]
Frank Rich: Right will rage if Obama wins
By David Daley If Obama wins, Frank Rich says the GOP’s fury will intensify, and the party will only get more extreme Ever since the days of Barry Goldwater, many liberals have assumed — or naively hoped — that each national defeat would teach Republicans that they had […]
The progressive case against Obama
By Matt Stoller President Barack Obama (Credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas) A few days ago, I participated in a debate with the legendary antiwar dissident Daniel Ellsberg on Huffington Post live on the merits of the Obama administration, and what progressives should do on Election Day. Ellsberg had written a […]
Are Widening Class Divisions Overshadowing the Culture Wars?
By Charles Babington Some hot-button issues in previous presidential campaigns have hardly surfaced in the 2012 race, which is all about the jobs and the economy. WASHINGTON — The U.S. presidential campaign has focused heavily on jobs, pushing other once high-profile issues to the side. It dismays activists […]
Journalism in the Obama age shows the real media bias
“The central function, the religion, of the US establishment media is adulation of those who wield power, especially military power as personified by the inaptly referred to “commander-in-chief”. Brinkley conducted the interview in the Oval Office from his knees because – with some significant exceptions – that’s the posture which US media culture assumes in the presence of the royal court.”
Obama Supporters Actually Hate Obama’s Policies
Luke Rudkowski hits the streets of NYC to find out where Obama supporters really stand on his policies. Now he did this in an underhanded way where the policies where presented to be Romney’s, but this was only done to get an honest opinion. The reactions when the […]
Third-Party Presidential Debate Talks Foreign Policy
Ideally, these minor parties should form a federation of independent parties and focus on achieving political victories in regions where their core demographics and ideological affiliations are most prevalent while agreeing to stay out of each others’ backyards. Instead of running presidential candidates, they should unify in advocating […]
Democracy of the Dead
United Nations organization set to monitor US polling places on Election Day
By Jessica Stanton The Daily Caller The United Nations-affiliated Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will deploy election monitors around the United States on Election Day in an effort to monitor conservative groups for voter suppression or intimidation at polling places. Led by Ambassador Daan Everts, the […]
“Kick-a-Nigger” Politics
Welfare is back as the handiest weapon in the racist rhetorical arsenal. It’s back in the speeches of Republican candidates and surrogates, on right wing radio, and even in the language of those young “individualists” who see themselves as politically hip because of their perceived proximity to anarchist types. They believe the poor are poor because they want to be poor. Or are failed individuals. Or have grown so used to poverty that they are satisfied waiting for a check, that they like making the often humiliating trek to the local Department of Social Services office. ‘Welfare’ is back, which is to say ‘kick-a-nigger’ politics is in full swing.
Why Minorities Will Decide the 2012 U.S. Election
Brookings Institute With Republican Mitt Romney now his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, both his campaign and President Obama’s re-election effort are barnstorming the nation for votes. For former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, this means recapturing the enthusiasm of the 2010 midterm GOP rout, especially among white Republican leaning voting […]
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Voters who will decide US poll
Al Jazeera Pollsters have devised hundreds of ways to slice and dice the American electorate. Every election season, there is talk of a new demographic group — from “soccer moms” to “NASCAR dads” — who will supposedly decide the outcome. (“Waitress moms” appear to be this year’s latest […]
Trotskyites for Romney
By Justin Raimondo Back in the early 1990s, before Antiwar.com was founded, I was a regular at a roundtable discussion group sponsored by the late Bill Rusher, a founding editor of National Review: these seminars were organized by a young man associated with a prominent conservative educational organization. […]
Would a Romney win prompt Cascadian secession?
The Northwest has a bit of a history of threatening secession. Would a win by Romney push us over the edge? By Knute Berger Crosscut Seth Stoll, Lake Washington “If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don’t want […]
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