James O'Rourke
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Incredibly Obvious Things In Front Of Our Faces
Sep 9th
Campagne for America’s Future By Dave Johnson September 8, 2010 – 1:08pm ET Conservative economic policies just don’t work and it’s incredibly obvious right in front of our faces. Knowing that obvious things are right in front of our faces and knowing that conservatives really, really don’t want us to see those things, it’s instructive [...]
Hate Takes Center Stage
Sep 9th
thinkprogress.org Hate Takes Center Stage Hate pastor Terry Jones and his small Dove World congregation are planning an event to burn the Quran in Gainesville, FL on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. His plan — dubbed “International Burn a Quran Day” — has now become a global story that, according to top American [...]
Fairy-Tale Social Security Policy
Sep 9th
Center for American Progress By Dave Johnson September 9, 2010 – 12:41pm ET Lots of kids believe in Santa Claus. This is because people repeat the fable to kids over and over, telling them that Santa Claus will deliver presents to them if they’re good. And then there’s the Boogeyman, the “amorphous embodiment of terror.” [...]
Think Again
Sep 9th
Center for American Progress By Eric Alterman | September 9, 2010 Think Again: Forget the Question. The Answer is “Tax Cuts” SOURCE: AP/Susan Walsh Conservatives are fighting to extend President George W. Bush’s tax cuts even though doing so would add $2.3 trillion to the total 2018 debt according to the Congressional Budget Office. By [...]
Why elections matter, in one graph
Sep 8th
Ezra Klein 9/8/10 I’ve been trying to figure out how to link to Timothy Noah’s series on inequality, which falls under the rubric of “things you should read that I have nothing to say about.” One thing I can say is that Noah, Catherine Mulbrandon and Slate have put an enormous amount of work into [...]
America’s Empire And Endless Wars Are Destroying The World, And Ruining Our Great Country | For more than 50 years, Washington has subscribed to the absurd notion that America can police the world with military action. All we’ve managed to do is bankrupt our country.
Sep 8th
AlterNet September 6, 2010 Andrew Bacevich speaks with a fairly unique mix of experience, authority, passion and wisdom in questioning our nation’s priorities: specifically our willingness to place so much of our national identity, wealth, attention, moral practice, and finally the life and blood of many thousands of our citizens and millions of those of [...]
America’s Empire And Endless Wars Are Destroying The World, And Ruining Our Great Country | For more than 50 years, Washington has subscribed to the absurd notion that America can police the world with military action. All we’ve managed to do is bankrupt our country.
Sep 8th
AlterNet September 6, 2010 Andrew Bacevich speaks with a fairly unique mix of experience, authority, passion and wisdom in questioning our nation’s priorities: specifically our willingness to place so much of our national identity, wealth, attention, moral practice, and finally the life and blood of many thousands of our citizens and millions of those of [...]
The Banned Books From School
Sep 6th
The Banned Books From School. By Rassilons Shorts - This is from the AARP Bulletin. The list of books banned by American schools and libraries includes many of the classic. Here’s our list, prepared to coincide with the American Library Association’s annual Banned Book Week, Sept 25-Oct 2.This is not all the books that are [...]
Inside Top Secret America
Sep 4th
washingtonpost.com A major investigation reveals the extent of America’s vast and heavily privatized military-corporate-intelligence establishment. August 28, 2010 In July, the Washington Post published the Top Secret America project — a sweeping portrait of America’s heavily privatized military-corporate-intelligence establishment. Lead reporter Dana Priest calls it the “vast and hidden apparatus of the war on terror.” [...]
Social Security Cutters, Watch Out
Sep 4th
BY PROGRESSIVE BREAKFAST AUGUST 12, 2010 Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement sec Major Social Security Poll To Be Released Today Pollster Stan Greenberg, Campaign For America’s Future and [...]
