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The @GOPleader Boehner Mashup: The Yes We Can’t

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.

 

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Our Real Enemy: Progressive Passivity

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

Team Progressive: Shaky But Still Able To Win

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

Concept: What if we just move?

I’m about to tweet this idea.  I’m interested in anyone’s comments.

Concept: Just 3-5 million infrastructurally-vital liberals, all moved to just 1 or 2 states, driving them hyper-blue. #p2

Volunteer for Coakley. Save Your Country

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

Progressive or Liberal: Does the label really matter?

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

Best LTE Ever

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.

Proud To Be A Liberal

Why Liberal values are American values

by 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 member of

Liberal Achievements

Almost all of these large or innovative government programs were strenuously resisted by conservatives.

  • Panama Canal
  • 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
  • The Servicemen's Readjustment
  • Rants & Primers

    Below is a 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 American