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Romney Uses Abortion as a Wedge Issue

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:55:20 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern
clipper's remarks: The only people who are pro-life in this country and those that work daily to improve the health and well-being of our citizens. Romney is pro-fetus. Living, breathing Americans can just suck it.

Clip Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Questions about Romney's South Carolina abortion mailer

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign recently sent out a slick mail piece in South Carolina emphatically stating that Romney is "the only major presidential candidate who supports the Republican party's pro-life platform: A constitutional amendment banning abortion nationwide."

But the claim doesn't completely square with Romney's previous statements that the abortion issue should first be decided by state legislatures before a constitutional amendment can be passed, leading one conservative leader in the state to call parts of the Romney brochure "oversimplified" and "offensive."

Romney's claim in the mailer, obtained last week by CNN, also opened the door for three of his Republican opponents campaigning in South Carolina to hammer Romney on his past support for abortion rights.

Tags: abortion, politics, election, romney

Generation X and Younger Back Obama

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:45:55 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern

Clip Source: www.thenation.com

Will the Real Generation Obama Please Stand Up?

Obama's book The Audacity of Hope makes it clear just whom he's calling old: "In the back-and-forth between Clinton and Gingrich, and in the elections of 2000 and 2004, I sometimes felt as if I were watching the psychodrama of the baby boom generation--a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago--played out on the national stage," writes Obama. It's a theme he's returned to with increasing frequency lately. "There's no doubt that we represent the kind of change Senator Clinton can't deliver on. And part of it's generational,"

Generation Y may hold the numerical key to a Democratic victory in future elections, but it's those pesky thirty- and fortysomethings who seek to shape the future of the party and redefine the word "progressive."

The X-er economic philosophy was

described

as "balanced-budget populism," combining fiscal responsibility with a concern for income inequality.

Tags: obama, politics, generation, progressive

American Academics

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:42:14 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern
clipper's remarks: I honestly believe that conservative rationale and thinking is less complex and evolved than progressive thought. It makes sense to me that places where highly intelligent people gather will therefore tend to be liberal.

Clip Source: chronicle.com

Few Conservatives but Many Centrists Found in American Academe

By DAVID GLENN

Conservatives are a small minority within the American professoriate, according to a major study whose results were released on Saturday. The study -- which is arguably the best-designed survey of American faculty beliefs since the early 1970s -- found that only 9.2 percent of college instructors are conservatives, and that only 20.4 percent voted for George W. Bush in 2004.

Tags: academia, liberal, progressive, politics

The History of Inequality in America

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:20:59 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern
clipper's remarks: Paul Krugman, Harvard professor and NY times writer, offers a history of inequality in the U.S.

Clip Source: krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

The chart shows the share of the richest 10 percent of the American population in total income – an indicator that closely tracks many other measures of economic inequality – over the past 90 years, as estimated by the economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. I’ve added labels indicating four key periods. These are:

The Long Gilded Age:

Public policy did little to limit extremes of wealth and poverty, mainly because the political dominance of the elite remained intact; the politics of the era, in which working Americans were divided by racial, religious, and cultural issues, have recognizable parallels with modern politics.

It was a society without extremes of wealth or poverty, a society of broadly shared prosperity, partly because strong unions, a high minimum wage, and a progressive tax system helped limit inequality.

Tags: income, inequality, history, u.s.

Lil' Bush on Comedy Central,

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:14:24 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: Lil' Bush on Comedy Central is the most outrageous caustic bit of black comedy since Myra Breckinridge the movie. The adult cartoon sitcom takes liberties with George W Bush as a child and intertwines his outlandish adult conduct as president. Which oddly, seems less emphasized coming from a juvenile's mind, since children can get away with so much more because of their innocence. That being said, the Lil' Bush kid, still comes across as arrogant, rude and pretentiously pious just like the grown-up George. Go to thinkingblue blog for more Lil' Bush videos... http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com

Clip Source: youtube.com

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Tags: cheney, bush, political, politics, lil bush

Conservative America is a Myth

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:09:14 GMT

clipped by: schreibe

Clip Source: mediamatters.org

Why a Conservative America Is a Myth

Americans are progressive across a wide range of controversial issues, and they're growing more progressive all the time.

on issue after issue, the majority of Americans hold progressive positions.

American opinion has grown more and more progressive over the past few decades.

The role of government - Americans support an active government that tackles problems, provides services, and aids those in need.

The economy - Americans support increasing the minimum wage and strong unions,

Social issues - Americans support legal abortion and embryonic stem cell research;

Security - Americans support a progressive approach to national security

The environment - By enormous margins, Americans favor strong environmental protections

Energy - Americans support energy conservation and the development of alternative fuels.

Health care - Americans clearly favor universal coverage

the facts are impossible to ignore.

Tags: politics, progressive

REFLECTIONS ON WORKING POOR, MIDDLECLASS AND AOHELL'S BLOG

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:48:09 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: I like blogs. They are like editorials from the ordinary, statements from the common person who work, pay bills, and pay taxes on her/his compensational wages. With this money she/he goes out, at the end of her/his hard workday, buys the things she/he needs and pays taxes again. What does she/he get in return for all her/his labors and double taxation. She/He gets the chance to get up the next day and do it all again. That's what it seems anyway, for the ordinary American middleclass person who is constantly climbing a greased pole trying to stay out of the ranks of the poor dangling below her/his suspension on this Achilles' heel of a pole. It has too fast become an inescapable failure for most to stay economically afloat. Two salaries per household and still they can't pass muster and avoid the catch-phrase "working poor". Please read http://www.aohell.com/archives/cat_americanpresidency.html or AOHELL'S blog, http://www.aohell.com/index.html Thanks, http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com

Clip Source: www.aohell.com

A Reflection on George Orwell, Red Cloud, Heaven, and Hell

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. -- George Orwell

In reality, the people vote upon a pre-approved slate of candidates who either are members of the Republican or Democrat parties, who enjoy a co-dominion in US politics, or they vote for people who had to do far, far more than show up sober to one of the Republican or Democrat nominating committees.

And do they respond to the people?

Income disparity continues to widen in America.

the very money I pay to keep the wolves away from my door goes to the pockets of the owners of those wolves and makes their wallets fat with my cash.

And general welfare for who?

Blessings of liberty?

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. -- George Santayana

Tags: politics, middleclass, working poor

A Brief History of The United States of America

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:37:19 GMT

clipped by: laceym

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: humor, history, politics, nra, kkk, slavery