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Help Reverse Susan G. Komen’s Decision About Funding Planned Parenthood

Shoq — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:35:26 +0000

Progressives MUST push back against this kind of political tampering or the Right wing will learn to apply it wherever they can. Please take a few minutes and help to reverse this obscene development.

Ways You Can Help: 1) SWAMP Komen's contact form with your protest messages.

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Occupy The Courts: A More Mature Approach To Change

Shoq — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:34:44 +0000

A frequent complaint of mine and others who have supported the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) from its earliest days, is that it's not demonstrated much interest or skill at organizing the coalitions that have traditonally been the hallmark of progressive political change in America.

Merely suggesting that professional organizers become involved was often met with

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Some Essays That Every Progressive Should Read

Shoq — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:53:38 +0000

In the past year, and especially the past few weeks, a number of articles and videos have appeared that examine many of the key problems facing Progressivism in the United States, and by implication, the United States itself. I grow weary of tweeting them individually, so I thought I would combine them here. Where appropriate,

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Like Him or Not, This Ain’t The Same Old David Frum

Shoq — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:09:04 +0000

Three weeks ago, I tweeted this:

@shoq: Somewhere, deep inside @DavidFrum, there’s a useful progressive yearning to be free: j.mp/tcQXDr #p2

I was being a bit glib about it, but I was trying to express an intuition about a sense I’ve had about a slow and sometimes erratic transformation

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The Pro Left Is Always Right (That’s Why They Get The Small Bucks)

Shoq — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:49:02 +0000

On the heels of some enthusiastic media response to President Obama’s aggressive posture on his new jobs plan, the professional left has been very busy pushing their latest vanity meme. Quick to seize whatever media narrative is likely to generate the most blog traffic and broadcast audiences, they lit up the Internets with self-congratulatory high-fives

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Grey Parker Educates Breitbart’s Dana Loesch: Because Someone Had To

Shoq — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:55:05 +0000

Grey Parker is one of those bloggers you stumble upon when someone in your stream says "you gotta read this." I did that some months ago, and ever since, I eagerly snap at his posts like a Venus Fly Trap that just got lucky. Today, Grey decided to respond to the execrable new Tokyo Rose

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Letter to Whiny Democrats: Wake Up, Shut Up or Just Give Up.

Shoq — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:18:32 +0000

Here it is…

A brilliant and important, five month old column by Mark Morford, written just after the disastrous midterms, which closely resembles a post I have written again and again in my own head. But as my Twitter followers know, I've only been able to tweet (ok, rant) about it in 140 character bursts.

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“I Can Hire One Half of the Working Class To Kill The Other Half”

Shoq — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:40:38 +0000

I quibble over some of his choices at times, but as my readers know, I've been a big fan of the @punkPatriot since I first came across him. If I had the spare change, I'd be putting him up in house somewhere, and pay him to make these videos all day long, so he didn't

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Ronald Reagan: “Where Collective Bargaining Is Forbidden, Freedom Is Lost”

Shoq — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:46:09 +0000

Flashback #1 Well,well, well.. here's a "Dutch" treat.

After all the moronic and self-serving blather that conservatives have spewed about Ronald Reagan and unions in the past month, look at what turns up. Now just imagine how they will twist themselves into balloon animals trying to spin this little historical artifact. Wait for it.

In the meantime,

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Wandering Strangers, by @jasiri_x: Just Who Is A Terrorist Anyway?

Shoq — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:48:53 +0000

With Rep. Peter King holding hearings on "Muslim Radicalization", and American Muslims being screamed at and harassed while attending a fundraiser for battered women, can Muslims safely live and pray in the United States of America?

In his new video "Wandering Strangers," @jasiri_x raises questions about who's a terrorist, and why people seem to forget freedom

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