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Born-Again Americans and That Old-Time (Civil) Religion
Can we progressives -- who won't be caught dead these days calling ourselves liberals -- can we stop serving as a punching bag for the right? And speak with depth and conviction about the things that really matter to us? Once and for all, can we break through the...
Conservatives Targeting Medicare
Over at Beat The Press, economist Dean Baker spots more disinformation from the Bush administration to undermine our pillars of retirement security: Bush Appointees Use Trustee Position to Advance Political Agenda That would have been the appropriate headline for a...
Decoupling Education & Upward Mobility
Like some middle class kids in my generation, education was a high priority. In my house it was emphasized as the doorway to upward mobility. (The idea of learning for learning's sake was something I discovered later.) If I wanted a "good job," I'd better...
The Anti-Liberal Media Strikes Again
The New York Times "Caucus" blog asserts: "There’s also the matter of whether Senator Obama is too liberal to bring about the change and bipartisan unity he speaks about." Has the media ever the raised the question if a candidate is "too conservative" to bring about...
McCain: Playing Election Year Politics with the Credit Crisis
One in ten homes is “under water” – worth less than their mortgages. 2 million homeowners are headed to foreclosure. The shadow banking system verges on collapse. Banks across world are shaken. The world fears global recession. Fearful of a catastrophic unraveling,...
It’s not the French; it’s US
Our McCain ad struck a chord, eliciting both reason and vitriol. It strikes me that it is worth being clear what the ad says and doesn’t say. Other than the bad French accent, it isn’t anti-French, xenophobic or “racist.” It doesn’t accuse the French of taking jobs...
Read The Speech
Pat Buchanan's latest rantings, put in their place by Isaiah, are merely the starkest evidence of a conservative effort to undermine the objective of Sen. Barack Obama's historic "A More Perfect Union" address, the objective of unity. Not all conservatives are trying...
The Society of the Owned: Moral Hazards
Part Seven of a Series Imagine that you've come upon two people who have somehow fallen into a very deep hole, which neither of them can climb out of on their own. (Nor, for some reason, can they help one another climb out.) In the course of figuring out what to do,...
Pat Buchanan's Racist Rant
MSNBC has another Imus problem, and his name is Pat Buchanan. In fact, the racist drivel that Buchanan has recently penned (posted on Human Events, among other places) is arguably more offensive than the insult Don Imus thoughtlessly tossed at the Rutgers University...
Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up
Holding guests accountable for their past statements proved too much for the Sunday shows, which went 0-for-3 for the Watchdog. On CBS' Face The Nation, Sen. Lindsey Graham was not asked to explain his 2007 observation of the Iraqi government: "If they can’t do it by...
