Left-wing sincerity exposed

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  March 28th at 09:53 PM  | 

It’s often alleged by the political left that conservative and libertarian activists are nothing more than Astroturf, meaning false or fake grassroots activism. The charge is that the activists are duped into — or paid for — engaging in political activism. Which makes the following video from the Koch Industries Koch Facts site all the more interesting. Here’s the description of the video on YouTube: | Read More »

Greenwald and Sanders try to defend Social Security, slam Koch brothers

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  June 27th at 01:57 PM  | 

This column is cross-posted from Voice for Liberty in Wichita. Are the free market critics of Social Security a shadowy “echo chamber” seeking to end the system for the benefit of the rich, or sounding a fact-based alarm that government and its supporters dispute and don’t want you to hear? According to a short video by Robert Greenwald, it’s the first choice. But examination of | Read More »