Gruntle Enterprise

Items tagged as 'Politics'

Item type: Entry

• The torture tape fingering Bush as a war criminal
• I'm Voting Republican
• I'm calling the organization of the United Brotherhood of It's None of Your Damn Business
• Tina Fay on SNL Playing Sarah Palin
• A Discussion about Bush Administration War Crimes in Doonesbury
• The Original Meaning of MILF
• Obama and McCain Tax Proposals
• Can You Help out an American Who's Down on His Luck?
• What Kind of Amazing Grace?
• Doonesbury Highlights the McCain Roll of Shame: 84 Wall Street Lobbyists on the McCain Campaign Payroll
• Jeb Babbin Believes that the US and China Will Be in a "Shooting War" within 10 Years
• Would the country's collective point of view be different
• Heaven or Hell: A Political Fable
• "Dear Red States..." A Letter From The Blue!
• Eight Years of Madoffs
• The Fed Who Blew the Whistle
• ACLU's Romero Addresses Law Breaking in the Bush Administration
• Children, Watch Your Language
• Who Will Throw the Book at the Bushies?
• Red Alert on Net Neutrality
• Thomas Jefferson: Permanent Revolution
• I only regret, that I have but one life to give for my country
• Jueza Lopez
• Vota
• How Dysfunction Helps the GOP
• ‘My Fellow Americans…’ The Address President Obama Should Give to Congress Next Week
• Why the American right make me sick
• Tom Tomorrow: then and now with goofus and gallant
• Las hijas de Zapatero con Obama
• A Thank You Note to the Repulican Party
• "Race Mixing Is Communism"
• The Obama Identity
• Republicans in Congress
• Jesus Sums up the Health Care Industry
• Deliver The Cure For Spine Flu To Senator Reid
• For Fox Sake
• Speparated at Birth?
• Staten Island Senator Diane Savino Speaks on Marriage Equality Bill
• Map of US Military Bases in Columbia
• President Obama Calls Bullshit on the Opposition
• Socialism – An Idea Whose Time Has Come
• John F. Kennedy: On Being a Liberal
• Fuck the South
• America's Energy Sacrifices
• The American Dream
• Secret Decoder Ring for Obama Speeches
• The Conservative Constitution of the United States

Item type: Quote

• My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders.
• Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
• And you, are you so forgetful of your past, is there no echo in your soul of your poets' songs, your dreamers' dreams, your rebels' calls?
• The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
• It takes less mental effort to condemn than to think.
• Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
• As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks, or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit. It is difficult if not impossible for any nationalist to conceal his al
• Conscience is the still, small voice which tells a candidate that what he is doing is likely to lose him votes.
• This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.
• The people's good is the highest law.
• I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
• It seems like the less a statesman amounts to the more he adores the flag.
• Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.
• I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
• Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand.
• We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
• We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old -- reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism is negative; conservatism goes
• There will be no Homeland Security until we realize that the entire planet is our homeland. Every sentient being in the world must feel secure.
• Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our
• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
• Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
• Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.