CPC Report; An unabashedly liberal perspective

 15 August 2009

1. By Way of Introduction

2. So Much Ado About Nothing; Lies about Sonia Sotomayer from the right

4. AN ORATION DEVOTED TO ANN COULTER (satire)
5. Postscripts

29 August 2009

1. So Much Ado About Nothing- Lies about President Obama from the right- Part 1

2. The Health Care Debate

3. J'accuse

4. The Scorched Earth Solution for Health Care Reform- A means of fighting back against the Right Wing Lying Machine (RWLM)
5. Stephen Hawking Endorses the National Health Service (NHS) of the UK

6. A Town Hall Meeting in Kansas

7. Postscripts

12 September 2009

1. So Much Ado About Nothing- Lies about President Obama from the right- Part 2

2. An Interview With Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota (R)

3. The Percolator Theory of Economics

4. Postscripts

19 September 2009- Special Edition

1. So Much Ado About Nothing- President Obama vs. Representative Joe Wilson on Health Care Reform- Who's the liar?-x

2. An Update on the Most Recent Lies Concerning Health Care Reform & on Rush's Fear of Circumcision

3. The Last Word- George Will is Wrong Again

4. The Road Not Taken poem by Robert Frost

5. PSYCHO PSEUDO HEADLINES

26 September 2009

1. So Much Ado About Nothing- Right Wing paranoia about Americorps & the President talking to schoolchildren

2.An Exchange Between Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia (R) & a Constituent

3. A Medical Horror Story

4. The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Aesop

5. Postscript

31 October 2009 (Halloween)
1. I Shall Now Take My Leave For Now
2. Notes on Depression
3. Suicide is painless by Mike Altman and Johnny Mandel
4. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

5. Good morning heartache written by Irene Higgenbotham, Ervin Drake and Dan Fisher & first sung by Billie Holiday

6. Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson 

7. If by Rudyard Kipling

8. Postscript

30 November 2009 (Mark Twain's birthday)

1. Some good advice for the RWLM from Mark Twain

2. Some Observations on Health Care in America
  a. On health care reform

  b. On GOP hypocrisy over proposed Medicare Cuts

  c. On the RWLM lies on rationing under a single payer system of health care

3. The Case Against the Senate Filibuster

4. Strange Fruit; music & lyrics by Abel Meeropol & 1st sung by Billie Holiday

5. Postscript 

1 January 2010 (New Year's Day)

1. Excerpts of the Original US Constitution Pertaining to Slavery
2. 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

3.  Dred Scott vs. Sanford (1857)

6. Letter to Albert. G. Hodges

15 January 2010- Martin Luther King's Birthday Special Edition
1. Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
2. The Death of Emmet Till music & lyrics by Bob Dylan

3. We shall overcome

4. Incantation by Czeslaw Milosz

2 February 2010 (Ground Hog Day)

1. The Republicans Cannot See Their Shadows

2. Pat Robertson's Pact with Satan (satire)

3. Some More Stupid & Sick Quotes by Pat from the Internet

4. How Not to Write Like Professor Cohen- The split infinitive

5. Postscripts

5 February 2010- Adlai Stevenson's Birthday Special Edition

1. Adlai Stevenson's Acceptance Speech- 1952 Democratic Convention

2. The True Meaning of Scott Brown's Victory

12 February 2010- Abraham Lincoln's Special Edition
Abraham Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address

15 February 2010- The Dan Quayle Special Edition
1. The Return of J. Danforth Quayle
2. More Moronic Moments with J. Danforth Quayle
3. Postscript

22 February 2010- George Washington's & Edward Kennedy's Birthdays
1. George Washington's Farewell Address
2. Edward Kennedy's Address at the 1980 Democratic Convention 

1 March 2010

2. Another Medical Horror Story

3. In Defense of Socialized Medicine

4. Index on Health Care Reform
5. How Not to Write Like Professor Cohen- The passive voice

6. "Professor Cohen's 39 Picky Rules of Writing" from the internet (excerpts)

7. Postscript

15 March 2010- The Ides of March

1. Some Final Thoughts on Health Care Reform, & the Ethics of the Right

2. The Masque of Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

3. Bridge over Troubled Water, music & lyrics by Paul Simon of Simon & Garfunkel
4. Postscript

1 April 2010- April Fools Day

1. Can Glenn Beck find any hidden messages in the puzzle below?

2. So Much Ado About Nothing- How the Right Went Wrong

4. How Not to Write Like Professor Cohen- Prepositional ending sentences & Prescriptive Grammar

5. How Not to Write Like Professor Cohen- Double Negations

6. Woody Allen on Life, Death, Love, Sex, Relationships, Religion & Whatever

7. MORE PSEUDO  PSEUDO HEADLINES

8. ONLY PSEUDO HEADLINES HERE

9. Postscript

4 April 2010- Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Special Edition
1." I've Been to the Mountaintop" by Martin Luther King, Jr. & given on 3 April 2010

2. Speech on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Robert F. Kennedy on 4 April 1968

3. Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Speech by Cesar Chavez

4. The Cotton Patch Version of Good Samaritan- From the Cotton Patch Gospel by Clarence Jordan

15 April 2010- Presidential Commemorative Special Edition

1. Thomas Jefferson's 1st Inaugural Address

2. Thomas Jefferson's 2nd Inaugural Address

3.  Lincoln's Letter to Henry L. Pierce and others on T. Jefferson

4. Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address

5. FDR's 1st Inaugural Address
6. FDR's Acceptance Speech for the 1932 Democratic Nomination

April 2010- Rachel Maddow Special Edition

. The Man Who Was Not There (poem) by Anon

3. Of Little Tyke, Tea Parties & These Tempestuous Times

4. The Skunk, the Jar & the Kind-hearted Woman
5. David Vitter (Senator) vs. Stormy Daniels (Porn Star) & the Perils of Larry Craig (ex-Senator)-(satire)

6. Postscript

1 May 2010-May Day

1. Mission of Trade Unions by Samuel Gompers

2. About Joe Hill

    a. Joe Hill lyrics by Alfred Hayes & music by Joe Robinson
    b. A Letter from Joe Hill to Bill Haywood (IWW Organizer)

   c. Joe Hill's Will 

3. What the Future Holds for Farm Workers & Hispanics by Cesar Chavez

4. Mud Time; poem by Robert Frost

11 May 2010- Anniversary of the Beginning of the Mexican War

1. James K. Polk Inaugural Address

2. James K. Polk War Message

3. Speech Against the Mexican War by Abraham Lincoln

4.  Speech on the Mexican War by Henry Clay
5. Speech on the Compromise of 1850  by Henry Clay
6. 7th of March Speech by Daniel Webster

7. The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated by Mark Twain 

8. The War Prayer by Mark Twain

15 May 2010- Songs of the Great Depression

1. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime by Yip Harburg & music by Jay Gorney

2. I'm in the Money ; lyrics by Al Dubin & music by Harry Warren (from the film The Gold Diggers of 1933)
3. Sixteen tons; music & lyrics by Merle Travis

4. Pastures of Plenty; music & lyrics by Woody Guthrie

1 June 2010

2. The Percolator Theory of Economics (Reprint)
3. The Percolator Theory of Economics Revisited

4. On Political Jokes - The Wonky Wacko Wingnut Women of the GOP

5.  Postscript 
 

4 June 2010- Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Special Edition

1. Robert F. Kennedy Speech at the University of Kansas on 18 March 1968

2. Senate Majority Leader's Mike Mansfield's Eulogy for John F. Kennedy

3. Edward Moore Kennedy's eulogy at RFK's funeral on 8 June 1968

4. Battle Hymn of the Republic, lyrics by Julia Ward Howe, adapted to a tune by William Steffe & sung at the funeral of RFK.

14 June 2010-  Flag Day

1. Pledges of Allegiance

2. Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key

3. What Does Old Glory Stand for?

4. Treason, the GOP & the RWLM- part 1: McCarthy & his ism

6. Joseph McCarthy to President Harry Truman

7. Reaction of President Harry Truman to Loyalty Investigation, “News Conference at Key West,” March 30, 1950

8. Declaration of Conscience by Margaret Chase Smith

9. McCarthy's Senatorial Speech Slandering George C. Marshall's Character

10. McCarthy Committee (18 February)- McCarthy vs. General Zwicker

11. See it Now (23 February 1954)- McCarthy vs. Zwicker
12. See it Now (11 March 1954)- "Tried by hearsay evidence, rumor and innuendo"

13. See it Now (28 May 1954)- McCarthy vs. Eisenhower
14. See it Now ()- McCarthy vs. Murrow

15. Army & McCarthy  Hearings (excerpts)
16. See It Now (10 June 1954)- "Have you no sense of decency?"

17. Resolution Censoring Joseph McCarthy

18. See It Now  (9 March 1954)- "The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves."

15 June 2010- Psycho Pseudo Headlines Special Edition

1. From the 19 September 2009 Edition

2. From the 1 April  2010 Edition

3. STILL MORE PSYCHO PSEUDO HEADLINES

21 June 2010

2. Testimony before HUAC

    b. Louis B. Mayer

    c. Ann Rand

    d. Ronald Reagan

    f. John Charles Moffit

    g. John Howard Lawson

    h. Eric Allen Johnston

    i. Lillian Hellman (letter)

    j. Robert E. Treuhaft

    k. Pete Seeger

    m. Paul Robeson

3. Dennis v. United States

    Dennis v. United States

4. As Regards Patriotism by Mark Twain

5. Postscript

1 July 2010

1. Men can be Wacky Wonky Wingnuts too.  

2. Carl Palidino; the Nature of a Bigot

3. Carl Palidino Concedes, Brandishes Bat, Tells Cuomo He Risks Having it Wielding Against Him by Nick Wing of Huffington Post

4. Speak Softly, Love by Nino Rota

4  July 2010- Independence Day

1. Epitaph written by Thomas Jefferson

2. Declaration of Independence
3. John Adams Inaugural Address
4. Treaty of Tripoli; Article 11

5. Eulogy of John Adams & Thomas Jefferson by Daniel Webster given 2 August 1826
6. The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro, Speech by Frederick Douglas

15 July 2010

1. Beck-style Paranoia & Hysteria (satire)

2. They're coming to take me away by Napoleon Samuels

3. AND STILL MORE PSYCHO PSEUDO HEADLINES

4. Postscripts
 

1 August 2010