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By Shoq, on June 25, 2010, at 6:23 pm
We're a Crowd making a list
As the midterm elections approach, there is a need for a list of Obama Achievements that progressives can use for voter and media education efforts. The administration has had far more significant accomplishments than the media have given much notice to, and better information can and will help
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By Shoq, on March 24, 2010, at 12:33 am
Yeah, it's easy to snark Boehner and the #GOP slime weasels, right?
The problem is, the more we snark, the more territory they seem to seize. But he, even so, at least for now, a little snark can be fun.
By Shoq, on February 6, 2010, at 1:29 pm
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 Peterson
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By Shoq, on January 27, 2010, at 5:48 pm
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 16, 2010, at 9:58 am
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 21, 2009, at 11:49 pm
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 9, 2009, at 2:43 pm
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 25, 2009, at 4:39 am
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 25, 2009, at 4:28 am
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
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