Love how he prefaces this with "we Populists." Here's what another populist, William Jennings Bryan, said about income taxes nearly 100 years earlier

You're right about it being veto proof, but FWIW, Clinton's economic advisor, Gene Sperling, in a 1997 memo, did encourage the president to do away with Glass-Steagall.

I've seen this before. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker put an "Open for Business" on all of the Wisconsin welcome signs. Then a Taiwanese company, Foxconn, got millions of dollars from the state in exchange for the promise of jobs that never came.

The Peace History Society is looking for a host for its 2025 conference. The deadline has been extended, so there's still time to submit a proposal if interested. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Don't forget how the Philippine insurrection also involved the use of torture by the United States some 100 years before the War on Terror.

The Peace History Society is looking for a host for its 2025 conference. Proposals are due November 15.

Speaking of Abrams, here's something else I looked at today. It's what an anti-interventionist activist said about Abrams' criticizing opponents of Reagan's war in El Salvador

In the archives today and found this. Funny how this became the premise of Red Dawn, at least the part about Nicaraguans invading the US.