Tag Archives: Government
One Year After The BP Spill
April 20th, 2011, marks the one year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. I mark the BP Spill as a point in time which it became even more clear to me that the United States government is invested in protecting … Continue reading
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Gutting America
Now that the budget cuts have been released for public viewing I am reminded that we have a Democratic president who enjoys passing Republican policies. This budget as it stands now is the gutting of America and the road to … Continue reading
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They’re Not Cleaning It Up, They’re Covering It Up
Kindra Arnesen is not the only one appalled at this sham of a clean-up effort and the corporate whitewash media-blackout over the level of sheer disaster currently ravaging America at the hands of BP and Transocean. Arnesen does not even … Continue reading
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SB1070 For Dummies & Hayward Hung By The Toes
This YouTube video from 4409 “Wake Up America” Productions is what people really need to understand about ‘that law’ that everyone is talking about when not picturing BP exec Tony Hayward in some contraption from one of the Saw movies. … Continue reading
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Senate Reconciliation Now!
The Republican obstructionism on the health care reform agenda is not “principled objections” as Senate minority leader Eric Cantor suggests. It is non-principled, pure nihilistic policy of poisoning the well and deception on behalf of conservatives. The liberal majority that … Continue reading
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Urban Institute Overviews The Public Option
Ezra Klein of The Washington Post has called this the “best overview of the public option” he has read so far, and I concur: Getting to a Public Option that Contains Costs: Negotiations, Opt-Outs and Triggers Robert A. Berenson, John … Continue reading
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Ayn Rand is Running the TEA Party
(Boston Globe) Coldhearted novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is Running the both the TEA Party and the GOP, her self-serving ideology the real backdrop of the modern political right-wing. – – Alan Greenspan was one of many Randites who have come to … Continue reading
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New York’s 23rd is a Victory for Democrats
For one-hundred and twenty years The State of New York’s 23rd Congressional District has been maintained by The Republican Party. This has come to an end. The voters have rejected Conservative-Republican ideals, once again. This in no small part due … Continue reading
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“American Right Wing Distaste for Government” by Stellaa
This is a post from Stellaa’s blog that I think deserves consideration: Although this is indirectly about the healthcare debate, I want to step back and ask my friends on the right about their ideas on “government” and the Reagan … Continue reading
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I Am The Stone That The Builder Refused
I am the stone that the builder refused, I am the visual, The inspiration that made lady sing the blues, I am the spark that makes idea bright, The same spark that lights the dark, So that you can know … Continue reading
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Eric Lightborn
