The Republican Assault on Medicare
The Republicans used the election of 2010 to pull off an impresive bait-and-switch operation. They campaigned against health care reform because it trimmed money from Medicare. It did trim the...
View ArticleDOMA Defense Law Firm Takes Pride In LGBT Diversity
King and Spalding the law firm that Speaker Boehner has hired (to the tune of $520 an hour) to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, takes great pride in its company diversity, including the value of...
View ArticleWhere is the media As Class Warfare by The Wealthy Against The Middle Class...
The Royal Wedding planning in the United Kingdom is cycled throughout the day. Provably imbecilic statements made by Mr. Donald Trump are displayed for public consumption throughout the day. Sadly,...
View ArticleAttack Ads and Birtherism in Canada: It's Not Just a U.S. Game Anymore
I just heard something really interesting, courtesy of NPR's All Things Considered. It was a story about Canadian Liberal Party Leader, opposition leader and MP Michael Ignatieff. They covered a...
View ArticleLet's make Glenn Beck's plagiarism the final straw
It's been easy for the right to blow off complaints about Glenn Beck's rhetoric as just more rantings from those effing hippy librul elites. But then comes what appears to be uncontestable evidence...
View ArticleBradley Manning possibly being moved
Short diary from a short news report http://www.nytimes.com/... WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the Army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being moved to Fort...
View ArticleSocial Security and Dick Durbin: the usual suspects are wrong again
Let's begin with the untruthful headline of "Senator Durbin Says Social Security Cuts Are Coming" based on a news report that Durbin said "revisions to the program, such as means-testing benefits for...
View ArticleOn Living Up To Your Words, Or, Tornado? That’s Not In The Constitution.
There are lots of big tough words coming out of our friends in the Tea Party these days, especially when it comes to the permissible functions of the Federal Government. ”If it’s not specifically...
View ArticleNuclear Power: Tonight on the Democracy Hour 8PM
Nuclear Power and Our Energy Future The Democracy Hour with Tom De Luca Tuesday, April 19th at 8PM To Listen Live: Click here and hit “Play” on the Talking Alternative Player! (on the upper right of...
View ArticleAction Now protest sparks a little change - Call Out Chase Bank
I received a positive email this morning from a local organization called Action Now. Originally posted on my site but hope people here find it somewhat motivating as well.
View ArticleEating Liberally Pasadena Meeting Tonight
Hello. We just wanted to remind you that the next meeting of Eating Liberally Pasadena will be happening tonight. We will be meeting at 7:30PM at: Firefly Bistro 1009 El Centro Street South Pasadena,...
View Article1A
So this is the 1A / First Amendment group, and I thought I'd talk briefly about why I formed this group and what 1A means to me. I want to start by explaining that though Freedom of Speech is the...
View ArticleFixing SS, Medicare, Taxes and the Economy
President Obama should put everything on the table, including Social Security and Medicare. What he should not put on the table is a butcher knife or even a scalpel with which to cut--the sole...
View ArticlePaul Ryan, Super Genius
On tackling the deficit, voters by a margin of 2-to-1 support raising taxes on incomes above $250,000, with 64 percent in favor and 33 percent opposed. Voters oppose cuts to those programs [ba note:...
View Article$50-A-Year to Import Your "Gas" - Nuke Fuel + Electric Car Economics
Uranium is as plentiful as tin. The earth has a billion years of proven reserves. Used as "gas," uranium is dirt cheap -- without the offshore drilling and wilderness and global warming. Kyshtym,...
View ArticleCounting the Omer
Tonight's the second night of Pesach, the night to begin the Counting of the Omer,which lasts for 49 days until Shavuot. As someone who feels uncomfortable even using the word “God,” I find I look...
View ArticleDespite Changes, Pa. Senate Voucher Plan Deeply Flawed
A blog post from Stephen Herzenberg, originally published on Third and State. Next week, the Pennsylvania Senate may take up an amended plan to create the largest-in-the nation private school vouchers...
View ArticleReligion and Love of the Neighbor
Today I received an email from one of my rightwing, religious fundamentalist college students telling me that God loves me, that Scripture is the Truth and way, that God wants me to love him and that...
View ArticleYou're a Backward-Looking Conservative, You Pissy Little Progressive
For those of you who are desperately trying to get the Democrats back "on track," doing the things you think you elected them for, like restoring jobs, protecting Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security...
View ArticleTea Party Madness
On April 15th I visited three Tea Parties and did interviews. The most encouraging thing I observed was that this years Tea Party events were much smaller than last year, on the order of half what...
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