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Feb 10 · There is a world of difference between you and us.
We argue amongst ourselves over the best way to ensure a good life for the many.
You debate us in the hope of ensuring that the good life only belongs to the chosen few.
You call them what you perceive them to be: lazy, good-for-nothing, irresponsible Welfare Queens, in need of being wrenched off the communal teat.
We recognize them for what they are: the homeless, the poverty-stricken, the down-on-their-luck, in need of assistance to
Feb 09 · This is an interesting article from one of my favorites, Kathryn Joyce, at the Daily Beast.
She discusses how Bill Clinton is working to free the Baptists in Haiti. Then she points out the new tactics.
"As Clinton works to spring the U.S. missionaries charged with kidnapping, the case highlights a new evangelical strategy: Adopt Third World babies and convert them."
For the past week, the news from Haiti has been dominated by the story of 10 American evangelicals from Idaho who were
Feb 08 · Globalization Is Killing the Globe: Return to Local Economies
by Thom Hartmann
Globalization is killing Europe, just as it's already wiped out much of the American middle class.
Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers who are paying for those benefits aren't making anything close to the income (or, therefore, paying the taxes) that their
Feb 08 · Bank of America Looks Like First of Many
Andrew Cuomo's complaint filed in the New York Supreme Court, County of New York against the Bank of America and two former top executives has the potential to push that too big to fail entity off the edge of a very steep cliff. The charges of massive fraud are based on a compelling and exhaustive filing on February 4.A trial will likely involve testimony by the current Bank of America CEO and President Brian Moynihan against defendants Kennet
Feb 09 · Brownbaggers Not Teabaggers
VIGILS AGAINST WAR FUNDING SPREAD ACROSS NATION
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) organized "brownbag" lunch vigils against war funding at noon on Wednesday, January 20th, at the district offices of 22 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
On February 17th, PDA will be joined by CODEPINK, AfterDowningStreet, Democrats.com, the California Nurses Assn./National Nurses United, and United for Peace and Justice in holding brownbag vigils outside (or
Feb 08 ·
Exclusive: New York Times Editor 'Stands Behind' Contested 'Pimp' Reporting on James O'Keefe
Times Sr. Editor for Standards cites Fox News, accused felon as sources for paper's ACORN report; refuses to back up additional claims made in contradiction of former state Attorney General
'No comment', assertions of privacy, bizarre obfuscation, backtracking offered when asked by The BRAD BLOG to share alleged evidence...
"There is nothing for us to correct ... We stand by our reporting." That
Feb 03 · Glad a newspaper is noticing that the Los Angeles area is in the forefront in the movement to give over the schools there to outside bidders, to have them no longer run by the school district.
The editorial makes a very important point as well about technical high schools once privatized required all to take college bound courses.
Change is not necessarily reform. Genuine reform produces lasting, beneficial improvements and isn't concocted by editors or frustrated school boards wil
Feb 08 · A recent article in The Nation by Lawrence Lessig, titled “How to Get our Democracy Back – There Will Be No Change Until we Change Congress”, puts the blame for our current state of affairs squarely on the U.S. Congress. Actually, it’s not Congress per se that is the problem, but our system for electing our Congresspersons – which of course has brought us our current Congress. Of course, our broken system is also used to elect our President and myriad lesser public officials.
Lessig begin
Feb 08 ·
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Here There Be Monsters
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Monday 08 February 2010
They say everything can be replaced,
Yet every distance is not near.
So I remember every face
Of every man who put me here.
- Bob Dylan, "I Shall Be Released"
I have a livid scar in the center of the back of my right hand. It is clearly visible, so I see it every day, and every time I
Feb 08 · From the Orlando Sentinel's Central Florida blogwatch.
This really boggles the mind. Somehow I missed this in January.
I've been leafing through the state's application for federal Race to the Top funds and have come to a quick conclusion: This might be a good time to add the word "consultant" to your business card
..."Florida has asked for $1.1 billion of the $4.35 billion available nationwide in Race to the Top grants.
What immediately became clear when I scrolled through th
Feb 08 · Stonewall Shelby and the Party of "NO"[/FONT
By Bennet Kelley
As Washington is paralyzed by the "snowpocalypse," images of the city's majestic monuments in a sea of white snow bring back fond memories of my years there. Eventually Mother Nature or the D.C. government will clear away the snow, but even then Washington will remain paralyzed by something far less endearing than even yellow snow -- Republican nihilism.
Last week, Senator Shelby (R-AL) used a parliamentary tactic known as a
Feb 08 · Democrats Need to Talk Turkey and Show Their Colors on Pocketbook Issues
By Bennet Kelley and Ian Mitroff
Some years ago, angered by the fact that Italy refused to extradite a Kurdish rebel responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Turks, the Turkish people threatened to boycott Italian products and even attack the stores of Italian businesses based in Turkey. Some local businesses attempted to dodge the issue by claiming they were not Italians but were merely running Italian bu
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