I HAVE a 3-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son, so I spend a lot of time these days at the playground.
Which is fine. I like playgrounds. I like any place where it's
possible to make monkey noises without anyone thinking less of you.
The one challenging thing about the playground, though, is that you
have to do a lot of resource management. Because there's always some
moment when my daughter and another child decide, more or less
simultaneously, that they want to ride the last open swing.
The Affordable Health Care for America Act was approved by the U.S.
House Saturday night with overwhelming support from progressive
Democrats who serve in the chamber and from a president who was
nominated and elected with the enthusiastic support of progressive
voters.
But that does not mean that informed and engaged progressives are entirely enthusiastic about the measure.
People should use the climate change
crisis as an opportunity to become human again, setting aside the
addictive and self-destructive behaviour that has damaged their souls,
the Archbishop of Canterbury said today.
Mobs disrupt town meetings.
Glenn Beck amplifies a careless remark by a mid-level White House staff
member into a threat of a national communist takeover. The right wing
spin machine creates a parent revolt over a presidential pep talk to
students urging them to study hard and stay in school.
The difference between parties and
movements is simple: Parties are loyal to their own power regardless of
policy agenda; movements are loyal to their own policy agenda
regardless of which party champions it. This is one of the few enduring
political axioms, and it explains why the organizations purporting to
lead an American progressive "movement" have yet to build a real
movement, much less a successful one.
I’ve started deleting them as spam.
I’m not talking about the enlarge-your-penis emails or
“You’ve Won the Lottery” notices.
I’m talking about the increasingly-urgent emails coming
for weeks from liberal Netroots groups calling for a “public option” for
healthcare – a government insurance plan citizens could choose to PAY FOR
instead of private insurance.
Recently a New York man named Dwight DeLee was convicted of the murder
of Lateisha Green, a young transgendered woman. For only the second
time in the Nation since such laws have been enacted, someone was
found guilty of a hate crime against a transgendered person. LGBT
activists are heralding the conviction as a victory in the fight for
justice for the transgendered community, even as it laments the
inattention of the mainstream media and the poor quality of reporting
when they do. As one example, a Syracuse newspaper incorrectly
identified Ms. Green as a man.
For all the laid-off “Joe the Plumbers” who share the Right’s fury
about the “class warfare” of imposing higher taxes on millionaires,
there is this hard truth: the rich don’t need as many of you as they
once did – and taxing the rich may be the only way to make the economic
system work for you.
Republicans are using the T-word - taxes - to attack the Obama healthcare program. It's a strategy based in a lie.
A very small niche of America's uber-wealthy have pulled off what may well be the biggest con job in the history of our republic, and they did it in a startlingly brief 30 or so years. True, they spent over three billion dollars to make it happen, but the reward to them was in the hundreds of billions - and will continue to be.
