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Wednesday, October 5th, 2016Conservative politicians and pundits understand that they cannot succeed unless they create an “other” separate from humanity. “Mexican rapist.” “Muslim extremist.” “Thug” “Welfare Queen” “Drug Addict” Hence, conservative politicians and pundits target the Humanities at universities with vicious attacks that de-legitimize these fields of study. Renaissance humanism opened the door to the Modern World. We […]
Mind the Facts
Saturday, July 30th, 2016Cutting government spending now hurts everyone.
Sunday, April 17th, 2016This chart from Brad DeLong has to be my favorite for understanding “what’s missing?” or “what’s different?”. The one area of the economy that is going down is government spending. If conservative economics were correct, the economy should be rocking. Instead it is making slow but steady progress. Voters need to stop punishing government workers […]
Paint meet corner.
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013“As long as Republicans remain tethered to reflexive government-is-bad rhetoric, they will struggle to articulate a positive role government can play in people’s lives.” How do you save Social Security and Medicare if you believe they are evil? How do you save public education if you believe it is evil? How do you save public […]
Why is faith no longer good enough?
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012Science is essential to Western Exceptionalism. James “Hutton was, for a time, a farmer — and in that occupation, observing the process of erosion and the laying down of deposits of various materials, he realized that the landscape he saw around him could be explained by the same forces operating over immense periods of time, […]
Obama, Debt and History
Thursday, October 18th, 2012Obama is not perfect, but we have 4000 years of human civilization to tell us he is on the right side. No society, including the Soviet Union, had a hard time making sure a few people are rich and powerful. Only Liberal American (1932-1968) and those Nasty European Social Democracies found a way to allow […]
Robert Byrd and a History of Poltical Racism in America
Monday, August 6th, 2012“Byrd, who died in June 2010 at age 92, had sought the FBI intelligence while suspecting that communists and subversives were guiding the civil rights cause, the records show.” Now that a child of the Civil Rights movement is President and he is accused of the same thing. Weird how that works. Same lie. Different […]
We Need Public Institutions
Friday, June 8th, 2012The solution to this problem is obvious. More tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, while slashing education and job training. With more than 12.7 million Americans unemployed, companies have no trouble attracting applicants….While these workers don’t need college degrees, they need at least two years of specialized training plus strong math, reading and writing skills. […]
JFK on Liberalism
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012“If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the […]
Only basic math skills required.
Sunday, April 29th, 2012Just think, this could have been the American experience if conservatives had their way. Growth requires addition. Subtraction leads to contraction. Is this rocket science? MADRID | Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:49pm EDT (Reuters) – Spain’s sickly economy faces a “crisis of huge proportions”, a minister said on Friday, as unemployment hit its highest level […]
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