... Having forgotten the New Deal's emphasis on high-wage work, all too many of today's progressives seem to have internalized the right's caricature of FDR-to-LBJ liberalism as being primarily about redistribution from the rich to the poor...

What is missed in this statement is that universal health care and living-wage work are related today unlike at anytime in the past. Current wages will never keep up with health care and health insurance costs that are so disproportionate and rising much faster than inflation or wages. Businesses strain under that weight too. New Deal dems did not have to factor in global competition as well.

Populists like Webb are rare in today's Democratic Party, while the Republicans, for all their folksy rhetoric, offer nothing but the economic program of their Wall Street Journal/Club for Growth wing. If mass unemployment and slow growth persist for years, some sort of third-party, "Middle American" populist movement in 2012 seems possible. (Lou Dobbs: tanned, rested and ready?)

Lou Dobbs, seriously? It 's far more likely to be someone with the same REAL Progressive populism of Jim Webb, Ralph Nader or even John Edwards.

Progressives were the leading edge of populism during Teddy Rooseveldt's time. The author does a horrible job of differentiating the differences between liberalism and progressivism. If you want a current example, contrast Maxine Waters, or Ted Kennedy with Russ Feingold or Dennis Kucinich respectively.

I guess when the author refers to Nixonian populism, he is talking about the Southern Strategy. I don't think igornant fundumentalist rednecks were ever favorites of Progressive Populists. In the Progressive era, "elitists" were respected for their education as opposed to their ignorance. If Team up any of the Progressives above with Colin Powel or any Traditional Conservative, and that is what a viable third party could be. Tradittional Progressives and Traditional Conservatives have more in common than not.

There is really only one party today--two sides of the same coin. It is ripe for a viable new third party, just as the GOP was at it's inception.

Say what you will about him. Project your own rightousness on him that you give others a pass and forgiveness on. Let other's book promotions get you excited to read more gossip so you will buy them and they will laugh all the way to the bank.

His platform and his ideas are what were important. Both Obie and Hillary did not have much of one before JRE challenged them. As time goes on, I see can plausibly see JRE's campaign as manipulaton bait for populust voters by the DNC.

The Health Care debate would likely be alot different, Gitmo would be shut down, No addtional bailouts for the Banks, and poverty and it's big brother, economic inequality would be on the forefront of discussion. JRE was the leading Progressive in the race. Obie was never, and still is not a Progressive.

Obie promised to address poverty as a condition of JRE's endorsement. How is that working?

I know who I would want to interview first if this clinc gets sabotaged.

...9. do most wealthy people like george soros pay income taxes? of course not. will many people who earn over 250K a year move to avoid taxes? absolutely - fact...

Fact: this is no different than saying Health Care providers will shut down if they can no longer get kickbacks from the insurers or Big Pharma. Where will these wealthy people move to? Answer: either a country that has UHC, for which they WILL be paying for, or a country that does not, but has very low quality health care, for which they will pay for scarce private doctors, and first class hospital wards, if they can get them in time. Not to mention the logistics of uprooting your family and trying to earn your keep for another culture that does not recogize the "superiority" of the USA business and economic system, unless they are just as corrupt, and you want to bribe them into accepting you.

Out of the frying pan into the fire. How much BS smoke can be blown before you break out the Single Payer fire extingusher?

Enough. Get the Single Payer economical and efficient mandate or get hosed.

This only serves to highlight the inherent weakness in cloud computing as a untrustworthy data storage area or method. It's only as good as the people behind it, and those people are flawed humans. It's also a way to mine and keep tabs on you through the backdoor.

For Apps, I can see some usefulness. For Data, NOTHING beats local storage, on a medium separate from production, and placed out of harms way.

You all can trust the cloud with everything from your financial data to your medical history. If they can't assure your contacts will be secure, good luck with everything else. I opt out.

It is long overdue to fully enforce the slander and libel prohibitions in this country, as well as those against Sedition, when called for.

And it's called for a lot.

Wish I would have saved it now, but one of the early AP stories with any detail, mentioned the suspect in NYC was investigated entirely by conventional methods. He was posting on a publically accessible Jihadist web site. They got a standard search warrant quickly, just like they could have under the ORIGINAL FISA.

The other suspects were setup by the FBI to believe they had real explosives (given to them by and FBI undercover), and when they attempted to detonate the fakes, they were arrested.

Where is the justification for the Patriot Act BS, if the above is true?