These guys are a hoot.

Apparently the phrase ” gallows humor ” is no metaphor when it comes to American intelligence officials. At a recent panel discussion on cybersecurity hosted by the Washington Post, former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden and Mike Rogers, chair of the house intelligence committee, joked about wanting to put Edward…

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Republicans, including Wisconsin’s own, Sean Duffy, weak in the polls

Well we knew that this would happen eventually. Republicans have lit a fire under the people of the United States with this shutdown. We still have federal parks close and federal employees at home without pay. While most of this will probably be resolved in some time, I am encouraged…

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Extortion Politics and Disaster Capitalism

Our republican democracy remains closed, shut, hijacked – call it what you will. Watching the bare-knuckled tactics of the GOP immediately brings to mind another term, the all too familiar privatization ruse – Disaster Capitalism. Hostage politics, make no mistake, fosters the very same conditions of escalated crises that creates…

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