Historian Gets Radio Exposure on Sarah Palin, but Jeopardizes his Professional Credibility?

Tues. Feb. 18, 2014:



Rarely does one find a more craven example of a professor bending over backwards to get radio exposure by pandering to the Right:

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/137011636/how-accurate-were-palins-comments-on-paul-revere

Tired of Knee-jerk Criticisms by Obama Detractors?

Mon. Feb. 10, 2014:

Fred Kaplan has been one of the top two or three reporters on nuclear issues over the past two decades.
Partisanship does not interest him.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/02/barack_obama_isn_t_disengaged_the_president_s_foreign_policy_is_just_smarter.html?alcmpid=view

Bites Has Bemoaned Democracy -- But Not Robert Dahl

Fri. Feb. 7, 2014:


"Bites from Edwin" has not been thrilled with recent messy results of USA's democracy -- or what H.L. Mencken among others has lampooned as "boobocracy."
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" -- just one of
Mencken's jokes about it.

But recently an eminent scholar of democracy, the political scientist Robert Dahl, died.
A tribute to him quotes his stubborn optimism about it;

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-06/robert-dahl-understood-our-democracy.html?alcmpid=view

Australian article on USA's Tea Party

Wed. Jan. 5, 2014:


http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19618-the-revolt-of-the-lower-middle-class-and-the-stupidity-of-the-elites


A pro-Tea Party cartoon:

An anti-Tea Party cartoon:

Anger & Fear: What the Tea Party and Some Gun Owners Share

Tues. Feb. 4, 2014:


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/opinion/nocera-the-gun-report-1-year-later.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-03/how-the-tea-party-saved-america.html?alcmpid=view