January 2012
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December 2011
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“It’s often said that what our leaders need is common sense, not fancy theories. ...”
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The implications of Hillary Clinton's speech on...
If you haven’t done so already, take a few minutes to read Sec. of State Hillary Clinton’s Geneva speech on LGBT rights as human rights. It is powerful, and important, and the administration deserves real credit for giving it.
It is so powerful, in fact, that it undermines the arguments Obama has put forward for opposing gay marriage.
For example, Clinton says:
progress comes from...
Robert Reich: The Most Important Economic Speech... →
robertreich:
The President’s speech today in Osawatomie, Kansas — where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910 — is the most important economic speech of his presidency in terms of connecting the dots, laying out the reasons behind our economic and political crises, and asserting a…
November 2011
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“Yesterday, a “Jewish call to action” was released, to “occupy the occupiers” in...”
– Marc Tracy in Tablet.
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October 2011
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Jessica Valenti: Mitt Romney to woman with a... →
jessicavalenti:
I’ve noticed that some blogs and publications have taken notice of a particular section from this New York Times piece on Mitt Romney and abortion:
Mormons oppose abortion, except in extreme cases like rape, incest or where the life of the woman is in danger — and require that church elders…
mobius1ski: Lies, damned lies & antisemitism at... →
dan debunks accusations of antisemitism at OWS
mobius1ski:
The conservative media, now relying on the new anti-Occupy Wall Street smear campaign created by William Kristol’s Emergency Committee for Israel, keeps pointing to this bigoted asshole with his “Zionists control Wall St.” sign as evidence that OWS is a purely antisemitic movement.
Yet they’re…
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“We may have democracy in this country, or we may have great wealth concentrated...”
– Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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September 2011
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Creative Campaign Literature of the Day
Proof Espinal is a Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time player. Have to admire the chutzpah though…
thebrooklynpolitics:
From the City Hall News morning newsletter today:
* What do you do when all the newspapers endorse one of your opponents? If you’re Assembly candidate Rafael Espinal, you start another newspaper. Residents of the 54th Assembly District got campaign mailings from the newly...
August 2011
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July 2011
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WatchI miss The Daily Show
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Better than Google Maps? →
My new morning ritual →
May 2011
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April 2011
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“Bishops agree sex abuse rules”
– The Sunday Business Post (h/t Jo)
March 2011
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Things I have in common w Farrakhan
“If Clinton was the first black president, you could almost say Obama would be the first Jewish president, in terms of his personal narrative being so closely aligned with what is, for many Jews, the typical American Jewish experience,” Moore said. (August 26, 2008)
Louis Farrakhan, who backed Obama’s candidacy in 2008, called him the “first Jewish president” and...
February 2011
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Farrakhan Leads Virginia (Past Virginia Tech... →
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Texas in the News
Kids get no love. (here and here)
January 2011
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WatchMe on TV.
Fox News: We Are All Jews Now
Which brings us to the matter of Fox — and, to some extent, the entire conservative movement — and the Jews. Over the past year — or, more accurately, since the arrival of Glenn Beck in early 2009 — Fox and people aligned with Fox have not engaged in incessant anti-Semitism but rather have incessantly appropriated the tropes and symbols of Jewish suffering to make the case against those they deem...
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