Greatest enemy of reproductive freedom - nominations please
My nomination for greatest enemy of reproductive freedom is -- Ronald Reagan, because to cosy up to the Vatican he defunded international family planning programs and was a major actor in beginning...
View ArticleGreatest enemy of reproductive freedom since year 2000 - nominations please
Recently I started another thread titled "Greatest enemy of reproductive freedom - nominations please". That thread was aimed at identifying the greatest offender against reproductive freedom in the...
View ArticleDemocratic leadership makes me want to weep
Democratic leadership at the time of writing (October 2014) makes me want to weep, because I think that the mid-term political campaigning by Democrats is woefully underpowered. I could be very wrong....
View ArticleJ'accuse (the mass media)
I accuse certain elements in our mainstream media of deliberately creating mass confusion concerning what is true and what is not, through broadcasting some shows that have reasonable credibility, and...
View Articlegetting out the vote
7:59am Oct 30 2014Past 6 weeks I've given money to Senate races that are neck & neck, according to the Daily Kos Election Outlook.As a result of this information, in the Senate races I've been...
View Article73% of conservatives vote, only 58% of liberals
According to the highly reliable Economist magazine, a recent survey by Pew Research Center says 73% of "consistently conservative" Americans are likely to cast a ballot on November 4th, while only 58%...
View ArticleDefeating the conservative ideology - part one
To defeat the conservative ideology, we liberals need to convince the public that we have a better way forwards.Back in the 1960s some wealthy conservatives were frightened at the direction the country...
View ArticleI have a feeling we should ask "vote for the party"
rather than "vote for the candidate." Point out what the party stands for, what it has done, what it plans to do, and dump on the other side for all the bad votes it has made in Congress and all the...
View ArticleThe Nanny state and 2016
Many Republican ideologues deride a "Nanny state". a government that guarantees decent subsistence and health care and housing from cradle to grave, regardless of how feckless you are, regardless how...
View ArticleRepublicans are to blame for problems at the Veterans Administration
Just now this morning my local newspaper had front page banner headlines "Troubled VA to undergo landmark restructuring".The Democratic response concerning problems at the VA has me shaking my head,...
View ArticleDoes President Obama have a line item veto ?
I can recall Ronald Reagan requesting a line item veto. What is the status now ? I hope Mr. Obama has it and will wield it like a club over the next 2 years. I also hope for the next two years that...
View ArticleDavid Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'
See the following link:http://www.theguardian.com/...
View ArticleSomething rotten in New York City
I don't read the New York Post but today at a newsstand I saw the attached front cover attacking Hillary Clinton with the headline "PANTSUIT ON FIRE: 57% in new poll say Hill's a liar". This is not...
View ArticleNominate Reich for VP ?
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich would make a superb candidate for VP because on the campaign trail, he could demolish the flawed economic plans of the Republican with especial conviction and vigor...
View ArticleMy vote won't make a difference
A friend, called Karen, says she very strongly opposes a ban on abortion. But she does not vote. So I ask her why. And she says “My vote won't make a difference”. This is both true and a lie. The...
View ArticleShould we shame people into voting ?
And should we try very hard to make people feel guilty about not voting ?My answer is... yessss !Of course some proportion will feel "I won't be manipulated" or "I won't listen to this" or "you're...
View ArticleAnother tack: Failure to vote is --- illogical
Note the framing. Not voting is a “failure”. “Illogical” is something we don't want to be seen as being./-------------------Ad in October 2016 showing a conversation between two liberals. Calendar in...
View ArticleCampaign issue ? Physicians should not charge uninsured patients more than...
Poor patients unable to afford insurance can quite often get charged more by a physician than the physician would be paid via copay plus what the insurance company would pay.The same applies to...
View ArticlePrivatization run amok: case 1: police reports thru LexisNexis
I had a teeny tiny fender bender in a parking lot but since it was with a township bus the police had to be called in. Was told I could obtain police report today. Well, I could go down to police...
View ArticleHow rampant is fear in the U.S. workplace ?
In my observation, there are probably large numbers of people afraid of losing their jobs. Any statistics on this issue ? I'd like to see a distribution on a scale something like the following:How...
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