Wedge issues only?
In Olympia and in D.C. Democratic politicians are delivering progressive legislation on gay rights and women’s rights.  That’s good. But these issues ARE wedge issues and I feel like I’m being taken for a...
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Save the News: Stand with arrested journalists
Stand with arrested journalists So far more than 50 journalists, including eight last week, have been arrested in the U.S. while covering the Occupy Wall Street movement. Last Wednesday a documentary filmmaker was arrested...
Link: US Business and Government Colluding to Fill American Jobs with Foreign Workers?
US Business and Government Colluding to Fill American Jobs with Foreign Workers?
NYTimes: Army officer challenges Pentagon's Afghanistan reports
Army officer challenges Pentagon’s Afghanistan reports “How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding?“
Ayn Rand versus Jesus
Source unknown Ayn Rand (conservative hero): “I am against God. I don’t approve of religion. It is a sign of a psychological weakness …. I regard it as evil.” Jesus Christ: “It is easier...
I know some people with no feelings and no conscience
They have no qualms about doing nasty things such as polluting air and water and not paying their fair share in taxes. They’re called corporations, conservatives, and Koch brothers. And if, as right-to-lifers claim,...
Great indictment of "Private Inequity" firms
See this concise exposé of private-equity funds in the New Yorker: Private Inequity. As a result, private-equity firms are increasingly able to profit even if the companies they run go under—an outcome made much...
Ryan Lizza on the Obama Memos, in the New Yorker
The January 30th New Yorker has an article by Ryan Lizza on the “Obama Memos.” It tells that depressing story of how President Obama really believed that he could unite the country and rise...