Category Archives: Kochs

Will ALEC Reinstate Slavery in Alabama by 2014?

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Will ALEC Reinstate Slavery in Alabama by 2014?”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailConservative governance has never made Alabama a land of opportunity. The state ranked 47th in a recent study of economic mobility by Opportunity Nation and the Human Development Project. But … Continue reading →

Posted in alabama, Alabama Republicans, ALEC, crime, Kochs, Kulturkampf | Tagged corrections, peonage, prison labor, prisons, slavery, vagrancy | 8 Comments

A River of Toxic Sludge

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “A River of Toxic Sludge”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailKoch Industries keeps finding new ways to be even worse than before. There is nothing patriotic about pollution; the Koch brothers do not create jobs this way. It is merely cheaper to drown … Continue reading →

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THIS Is How It Starts!

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “THIS Is How It Starts!”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailBy Emilia1956 You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that … Continue reading →

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Biblical Errancy is Intentional

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Biblical Errancy is Intentional”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailRachel Tabachnick has been tracking culture warriors for a long time, and provides a badly-needed window on the “education” that movement conservatism seeks to install everywhere. Darwin is stripped from the “Christian” classroom — … Continue reading →

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Toward No More Koch Suckers

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Toward No More Koch Suckers”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail About 1000 people protested the Kochs’ Rancho Mirage retreat, with 25 arrests reported.

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Resisting The Noise Machine

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Resisting The Noise Machine”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI’ve been hoping to see more direct action against the purveyors of paranoid politics, and it’s happening: The Koch brothers are bringing their super-wealthy friends to the California desert to a private gathering to … Continue reading →

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Koch’s Suckers

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Koch’s Suckers”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis is an epic deconstruction from Maddow. It is the most absurd form of right-wing projection that all of media and government are in the hands of some sinister conspiracy. In fact, that conspiracy theory itself … Continue reading →