After serving his time federal prison, John Ehrlichman granted an interview to author Dan Baum, who reports that Ehrlichman explained the origin of the war on drugs this way: The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I’m saying?…
Obama vs. Romney: The Framing Matchup, Round One Where Romney talks morality (conservative style), Obama mainly talks policy. Where Romney reframes Obama, Obama does not reframe Romney. In fact, he reinforces Romney’s frames in the first part of his speech by repeating Romney’s language word for word – without spelling out his own values explicitly….
“A house doesn’t have to fall on my head to tell me a battle royal is brewing within the Catholic Church over the conservative hierarchy’s heavy-handed efforts to clamp down on dissenting Catholic voices. Not when a prominent American nun comes “this close†to calling the present Church leadership a bunch of brown-frocked fascists. Or…
Apparently by Jay Branscomb.
According to Peace Action’s Congressional Voting Record for last year’s session of Congress, only Senators Maria Cantwell (78%), Patty Murray (78%), Representatives Jim McDermott (74%), and Jay Inslee (57%) had respectable scores on issues related to war and military spending.  Rep. Dave Reichert had the worst record, scoring just 9%.  In the following chart, the…
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Fuse Washington says:
http://www.livestream.com/owsoccupyseattle http://www.livestream.com/owsoccupyseattle Currently, as I write this, they’re discussing how often to have General Assemblies and whether there should be a quorum (of 50?) for making decisions. They endlessly discuss process and how to make decisions. They bemoaned low turnout. I listened for about an hour. Sounds unproductive. Sometimes top-down, centralized, hierarchical organizations, with lots…
Republicans made sure that the economy would remain in the doldrums in order to prevent Obama from winning a second term. They opposed virtually every Obama proposal. “The most corrupt, evil, and petty sort of politics this town has seen since Newt Gingrich shut down the government and threw millions out of work because Bill…