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Jeffrey Sachs: ‘The People’s Budget’
Jeffrey Sachs has posted an excellent piece on The Huffington Post regarding the only sane budget proposal floating around Washington D.C. HuffingtonPost.com: Just when it seemed that all of Washington had lost its values and its connection with the American … Continue reading
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To Every Age A Fear-Monger Is Born
There is always a figure that will stand up for evil, lies, Antisemitism and violence. There is never any lack of men and women who will sell their souls for attention, power, fame and money. What is unacceptable is … Continue reading
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Pew: ‘Mosque Debate Tops Coverage, But Not News Interest’
The Pew Research Center has posted a new media study showing that most Americans are not interested to hear about the NYC Islamic community center, but would rather see coverage related to the BP oil spill. While the media focused … Continue reading
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Beating The Dead Horse Of Right-Wing Racism
I’m sure by this point that most people who are political types have already formed an opinion of the matter of tea party racism and to the larger issue: if the Republican political strategy includes pandering to racist Americans. I … 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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Cut It All Right In Two
“Right in Two” from 10,000 Days by Tool Angels on the sidelines, Puzzled and amused, Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they’re all confused, Don’t these talking moneys know that, Eden has enough to go around? Plenty … Continue reading
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I Believe Glenn Beck is Dangerous for America
MediaMatters.org “Beck, O’Reilly respond to Misinformer of the Year“ This all bounces around in circles, just as Glenn Beck had hoped it would. He is supporting unconstitutional rhetoric and calling the people calling him out on it as doing the … 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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A Leggy Sara Palin Newsweek Cover
Politically-speaking I could not disagree with Sara Palin any more. However, I would like to say that this woman has taken an amazing amount of hard-blows from the left. It would be more impressive in her own personal character if … Continue reading
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Policies Over Personalities in Partisan Politics
Image: SustainAbility.com Al Gore – “Republicans are the best sellers of the worst products.” Gore is right about the Republicans, but moreover he made this simple point without the venom we so often see in political right-wing … 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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Repost: Loyal Opposition No More
For many years I have felt that for all our disagreements between liberal and conservative individuals in the U.S., there was a shared position by both sides. A loyal opposition to the opposition, if you will. For the time being, … Continue reading
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Eric Lightborn
