In a speech that only fueled more pre-presidential speculation, Chris Christie spoke at the Reagan Library last night, extolling the former president’s union-busting virtues. Clearly they are soul mates. Also in common is their closeness to rich puppet-masters. Reagan had GE and all that flowed from that. Christie has a couple of Kochs and more. … Read more
This today from the US Army, via Mother Jones.
Lamar Alexander, a longtime conservative fixture in the GOP from Tennessee apparently can no longer remain in his party’s leadership. The Right Wing heat is up so high so that unless a pol has a total mental block against compromise, like Cantor et al, he cannot possibly lead his party. In other words you may … Read more
Catch this amazing Rick Perry on the new New Republic cover. A brilliant example of what illustration can do for a magazine and the truth. Hunt is one of our great portraitists and art director Joe Heroun hit the bullseye with this approach. Catch his process HERE
The last week has seen an ongoing protest on Wall Street. This weekend we saw how un-finest the NYPD can be. It is inquest time in Lower Manhattan. There enough thugs in public life without any of them being on payroll. Neither protesters nor Cops are angels. But they all need to be above board … Read more
