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The “Hero” Who Runs from the Battlefield
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 6:52 pm | Ernest Partridge
The McCain campaign has carelessly served a fat pitch down the middle, and if Barack Obama doesn’t hit it out of the park, perhaps he doesn’t deserve to win the election. More >>
Who You Gonna Call? The Democrats!
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 1:44 pm | Ernest Partridge
Now is the time for all good Democrats to come to the aid of the capitalists. However, if the Democrats are to be of any help, first of all the capitalists must come to the aid of the Democrats. There’s an election coming up in just six weeks. What ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: Should We Believe the Polls?
Thursday, 18 September 2008, 12:52 am | Ernest Partridge
If we are to believe the most recent public opinion polls, this has been a very bad week for the Obama/Biden ticket. According to Gallup, the Democrats’ consistent eleven to fifteen point advantage since January dropped to three points this week. ... More >>
OmiGawd, Not Another Cold War!
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 11:03 am | Ernest Partridge
In 1989, the New York Times published a letter from Georgi Arbatov, the Director of the Soviet Institute of the U.S. and Canada, in which Arbatov wrote: “"We have a secret weapon ... we will deprive America of The Enemy. And how [then will] you ... More >>
Ernest Partridge:The Fix is In – Again!
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 12:53 am | Ernest Partridge
Better get used to the idea: John McCain will probably be the next President of the United States. More >>
Ernest Partridge: The Outsourcing Tragedy
Friday, 8 August 2008, 4:39 pm | Ernest Partridge
My computer and I have been through a bad spell these past couple of weeks. First, my router/modem developed a terminal malfunction, and then my new anti-virus software failed to install. Thankfully, three very capable and patient gentlemen at various ... More >>
Evil as the Absence of Empathy
Thursday, 24 July 2008, 3:41 pm | Ernest Partridge
In 1946, Dr. Gustav M. Gilbert, a psychologist fluent in German, was assigned by the U.S. Army to study the minds and motivations of the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg tribunals. The following year, his Nuremberg Diary was published, containing transcripts ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: “That’s Just Your Opinion”
Thursday, 26 June 2008, 8:08 pm | Ernest Partridge
My friend Roy is a world-class computer wizard. Throughout the more than twenty years that we’ve known him, he has managed to solve numerous computer glitches that have had us totally baffled. In our business dealings with him he has been unfailingly ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: Reverse Henry-Fordism
Thursday, 19 June 2008, 3:45 pm | Ernest Partridge
That’s the first law of practical economics. Everyone knows this to be true, whether or not one has ever taken a course in Economics. Everyone except, apparently, a few Ph.D economists who seem to forget this rule when they are hired by the Heritage ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: GOTCHA!
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 10:16 am | Ernest Partridge
A Democrat campaigning for the White House must feel like a soldier advancing through a mine field. At any moment, he or she is one step away from being blown out of the contest. And the poor wretch is surrounded by a ravenous mob of media hounds, each ... More >>
Some Unsolicited Advice for Barack Obama
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 6:53 pm | Ernest Partridge
TO: Barack H. Obama, Presumptive Nominee, Democratic Party. FROM: Ernest Partridge, Philosopher at Large, Incorrigible Gadfly. RE: The Campaign: How to Learn from the Past and Avoid Repeating It . Congratulations on your long, hard-fought and well-executed ... More >>
Pity the Poor Mainstream Media!
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 3:57 pm | Ernest Partridge
It is very difficult for an old liberal like me to be sympathetic about the plight of the corporate media, given the way they have behaved of late. But the simple fact of the matter is that the commercial news media have fallen into a deep financial ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: According to Plan?
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 10:32 am | Ernest Partridge
The pre-convention Democratic campaign could not be working out better for the Republicans even if the GOP had planned it this way. More >>
Ernest Partridge: Adieu, Randi Rhodes
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 10:51 am | Ernest Partridge
I rarely write about personalities, being much more interested in issues and ideas. Celebrity-obsession is a major pox on the American body-politic, and I’d just as soon ignore the AAR-Rhodes contretemps. But l’affaire Rhodes bears larger implications ... More >>
Privatization: The Key to the Coming Solar Age
Friday, 4 April 2008, 1:55 pm | Ernest Partridge
How is industrial civilization to deal with the end of the petroleum age and the onset of global warming? More >>
The Monkey Trap, & Clinton’s Blind Rush to Defeat
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 1:17 pm | Ernest Partridge
Some African tribes have devised an ingenious method of capturing monkeys. They cut a small hole in a coconut, large enough for a monkey’s hand but too small for a monkey’s fist. They then put a few peanuts inside the coconut. When the monkey ... More >>
My Encounter with William F. Buckley, Jr.
Friday, 14 March 2008, 11:50 am | Ernest Partridge
Some forty years ago, I interviewed the late William F. Buckley, Jr. although I had to bribe him to agree. More >>
The Great Regression -- and the Road Back
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 6:54 pm | Ernest Partridge
This past week I revisited an essay that I wrote in May, 2000: “On Civic Friendship.” Reading it was a sobering reminder of how much we Americans have lost, economically, politically, and morally, since then – how much our sense of hope, our self-esteem ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: The Gulag Comes To America
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 11:02 am | Ernest Partridge
Every day that Siegelman remains in prison every American citizen who openly dissents from the policies and protests the criminality of the Bush/Cheney regime is less free and more vulnerable to politically motivated prosecution. More >>
Ernest Partridge: Great American Election Charade
Thursday, 17 January 2008, 12:19 am | Ernest Partridge
The more the American public is persuaded to believe this pleasant myth of the "free and open election process," the longer that public will believe that each new Chief Executive is the legitimate "people's choice". That suits the powers that be. More >>
