[Originally published in 2017 except for the last paragraph] The arc of history sounds a bit pompous, but an ignorance of it is far-reaching in (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
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What did you call me?
10/27/2019 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsTry to think of a word, a label, an epithet, that can be applied to White people with anything like the force the N word (Continue Reading)
What’s in Barr’s head?
10/12/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis one is not a fill-in-the-blank question. It is very serious. Serious because William Barr is a serious guy who had immense education, training, and (Continue Reading)
Three big things going on now that don’t involve subpoenas
05/16/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentIt is May 16, 2019 and do you know where your country is headed? We have a task force in the Persian Gulf and John (Continue Reading)
The H word… is it time? Ask Beto
04/05/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentIs it now time to step over the line and begin the Hitler comparisons? I give you a paragraph of facts from a Joan Walsh (Continue Reading)
No longer under the bus.
11/08/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentEnd of category. We are no longer under the bus.
Why not Blacks, Mexicans, Asians, Jews? Why not?
11/03/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentOver and over we see the depressing yet gratifying statistics on how selected minority groups vote. People of color and Jews vote Democratic in large (Continue Reading)
Jesus or Trump?
09/23/2018 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsFrank Schaeffer, recovering evangelist (still evangelical, just not spreading hate and poison like the current movement), pointed out on A.M. Joy yesterday that Trump’s followers (Continue Reading)
An example of a dog whistle
08/30/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentDo you ever wonder why Chicago’s murder rate ranks so high among Republicans as a topic of discussion? I do. Since when have they been (Continue Reading)
Prescient President…. too bad not on every issue.
08/26/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentQuoting LBJ talking about anti-war protesters: “… it’s not those punks in the street that worry me, it’s the right wing. That’s the real beast, (Continue Reading)
Have the Republicans always been like this?
08/20/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentHere’s an extensive quote from The Wise Men. pp. 563 to 565. It demonstrates the inherent and instinctive thought of people who join the Republican (Continue Reading)
Well, it could be worse
08/19/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentReading of the Republican reaction to Truman firing McArthur, my thoughts turned to Louie Gohmert and Trey Gowdy and Darrell Issa and so on. All (Continue Reading)
Real Time blogging
08/18/2018 Pat Barrett 8 CommentsAs I watch the Rev. Al in for Joy on A.M. Joy, I want to blog as I hear the arguments against Trump’s stripping Brennan (Continue Reading)
Euro-American Alliance
08/18/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn The Wise Men I am just reading about McCloy’s efforts to bring Europe together right after WW II. His success in this endeavor was (Continue Reading)
Earrings and Black women
08/18/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy wife was watching the Omarosa drama fest unfold and decided Omarosa has the goods and that Trump may be brought down by her. She (Continue Reading)
Eddie Glaude on owning your policies
08/15/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentYes, Republicans, that’s you he’s talking about. And I don’t want to hear any self-righteous claims of arrogance on his part or my part, that (Continue Reading)
I’ve found my candidate!
08/10/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentUnlikely perhaps, but he is Corey Stewart of Virginia, who is seemingly pushing for the solution to our divisions I have advocated for some time (Continue Reading)
What is the Freeport Doctrine
08/05/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentStephen Douglas said, “Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere. unless it is supported by local police regulations.” That is the Freeport Doctrine (Continue Reading)
Feeding the society
08/02/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe former national Teacher of the Year, Johana Hayes, is now running for office in Connecticut. Her own background is very tough and she rose (Continue Reading)
Untangling Police-on-Black violence
07/26/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe reasoning that goes on behind the shootings protested by Black Lives Matter seems shallow. Why does the story run so often along these lines: (Continue Reading)
Charlottesville vs Putin: whose ox is gored?
07/18/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe reason not so many people got riled up over Trump’s declaration that there were good people and blame on both sides in the Charlottesville (Continue Reading)
Parlor game: what does Putin have on Trump?
07/17/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy friend with whom I have weekly conversations surprised me with his version of “what does Putin have on Trump?” Not pee tapes, not massive (Continue Reading)
Guess who’s under the bus now?
07/17/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentUnder the bus, we ran into a lot of Republicans. No, not the Jordans or Issas, or Gomerts or Gingriches; it was the McCains, Flakes, (Continue Reading)