By Shoq, on February 6th, 2010
This is the very essay I was going to try and tackle this week. These fine folks have done a superb job of writing it for me. You must read it, and then see my note that follows:
How To Do Effective Political Activism: What Always Worked And What Never Did — by Perkerson
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By Shoq, on January 27th, 2010
Preface: I really prefer micro-blogging about short, concise, action-oriented bits of news and information. I am not a journalist, and have never considered myself much of a writer, so forgive me as I stumble through a screed that is far longer and more ambitious than what I first intended, or what I normally offer on
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By Shoq, on January 16th, 2010
After months of whining, backstabbing, and sniveling by people who think bashing Obama is the best way to redirect America on a progressive path, the result has been a demoralized and disaffected electorate that is easy polemical pickins for the malicious fascists who got us into this mess.
We have 48 hours to not just save
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By Shoq, on November 21st, 2009
In March of his year, the Seattle Times ran this story about the battle over "Progressivism vs. Liberalism.
With "liberal" out, what's left? Progressive
Mary Helms, 54, whose family raises peanuts and cotton in Dothan, Ala., said she knew what a liberal was: "Someone who doesn't have very good morals."
And a progressive? "I don't really
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By Shoq, on October 9th, 2009
To Washington Post Letters: Steven F. Hayward wrote: "The single largest defect of modern conservatism, in my mind, is its insufficient ability to challenge liberalism at the intellectual level. . . ."
No. The single largest defect of modern conservatism is that it has ruined the nation. Conservatives do not have ideas; they have interests.
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By Shoq, on September 25th, 2009
Why Liberal values are American values
Brian Elroy McKinley "You are a contentious person….and probably a Liberal," started a recent response to an article I published on abortion rights. Contentious? Possibly. Liberal? Absolutely. Seems these days Conservatives have convinced themselves, and some of the American public, that being a Liberal is akin to being a card-carrying
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By Shoq, on September 25th, 2009
All or most were strenuously resisted by conservatives and many Republicans.
Interstate Highway System
It wasn't Ike's idea. It was a liberal initiative begun in the '30s. Ike was a liberal.
Almost all of our Labor Laws (and All Child Labor laws)
The Marshall Plan
Environmental Laws
Freedom of Information Act
Workplace safety laws
Social Security
The Space Program
Securities Act of 1933 &
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By Shoq, on September 25th, 2009
Below is a short list of articles written which I feel every progressive, or at least people who still believe in reason and evolution, should read.
I have chosen them for their ability to cut through the clutter of academic and philosophical verbiage, and get right to higher truth about the insane and dangerous phenomenon of
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