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Manufacture Or Borrow (Until We Can't)
When things are going wrong it is often good practice to go back and review the basics, and start again. In baseball you go back to batting and fielding practice. To master a musical instrument you practice your scales every day. Things have gone wrong with our...
Fascist America: Are We There Yet?
All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist rhetoric ratcheted up, hate speech turned into intimidation and violence, and the president of the United States seized for himself...
Health Care Reform: Time to Go All In
It is time to go all in to support comprehensive health care reform. The stakes have gotten prohibitive. Republicans have essentially bet the House on it. Obama, for all intents and purposes, has wagered the White House agenda. The insurance and drug companies are...
Memo To Marc Ambinder: The Right-Wing Is Not The Middle
Marc Ambinder is spending a lot of blogging energy defending his peeps at CBS for this news report giving the right-wing Birther mob credit for representing concerns about health care reform from the electoral middle. He writes: A majority of the public supports...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/5/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Progressives Prevent Right-Wing Mob From Masquerading As The Middle MSNBC's Rachel Maddow thoroughly reviews the direct connections between lobbyists and...
Birthers = Health Care Deniers
Let me preface this by explaining my rationale for labeling opponents of health care reform "health care deniers". I call them deniers, in much the same vein as global warming deniers and Holocaust deniers, and for the very same reason. These people deny that we have...
Progressive Breakfast: Let The Debunking Begin
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Obama Targets Right-Wing Health Care Lies WH ratchets up right-wing debunking effort with blog post "Facts Are Stubborn Things" and Linda Douglass video,...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/4/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Obama Targets Right-Wing Health Care Lies WH ratchets up right-wing debunking effort with blog post "Facts Are Stubborn Things" and Linda Douglass video,...
Misuse Of The Words Protectionism And Trade Is Making Us Poorer
Can one be called “protectionist” just for pointing out when other countries are being smart? Maybe so. I’ll get to that in a minute, but first… Language has tremendous power. People like George Lakoff and Drew Westin, who study the use of language in political...
A Right-Wing Mob Is Not a Majority
We're seeing more and more YouTube video of hostile constituents berating members of Congress to kill health care reform. Last month was the infamous Rep. Mike Castle town hall where the crowd demanded the congressman say that President Obama was not born in the USA,...
