There are no real statesmen in politics anymore. No Daniel Patrick Moynihans. No Tip O’Neills. No Ronald Reagans. Reagan and O’Neill were of different parties, yet they often found common ground, and compromised without compromising themselves. There are no real leaders anymore. Leaders who can assess a tenuous political situation, and navigate treacherous partisan waters [...]
Tags: Barack Obama·Bernie Sanders·Government·Politics·United States
So let me get this right… Glenn Beck, the multi-millionaire, is lecturing all of us about what real poverty is, and chastising those he thinks don’t qualify as poor simply because they have a television? Would he feel better if the poor in this country trod in rice paddies, and drank brown, germ-ridden water? Is [...]
Tags: Children·Glenn Beck·middle class·poor·poverty·United States
H/T to Andrew and the Dish: This was too good not to pass along to my readers. It gets better: While 75% identify the Republicans as the party regarded as doing best in the midterms, fewer than half (46%) know that Republicans will have a majority only in the House when the new Congress convenes [...]
Tags: america·Dancing with the Stars·Politics·republican·United States
Is this the beginning of a good start? The cynic in me says no, but it’s good to know that some in the congressional freshmen class have taken the pulse on American thought. It’s not about witch hunts, payback, and impeachment. I’m not interested in seeing two years of gridlock. Watch congressman-elect Richard Hanna speak [...]
“Being the vice-presidential nominee on the ticket is different from saying ‘I want to be the person at the top of the ticket,’” Rove continued. “There are high standards that the American people have for it [the presidency] and they require a certain level of gravitas, and they want to look at the candidate and [...]
There is no correlation between students who take out student loans, and the increase in tuition at universities. None. If anything, the exact reverse is true. I don’t think Glenn Beck understands this idea. Their is no methodology on earth he could use to ascertain that an education is worthless, simply because of how it [...]
Tags: Colleges and Universities·education·Education Reform·Loan·United States
I remember reading Dinesh D’souza’s End Of Racism while in college. At the time, my sense of fairness was guided by my self-righteous negativity toward the elitist establishment–and reading a conservative meme written by a conservative about race– only seemed to buffer my arguments of conservative ambivalence toward race and racial identity. I thought the [...]
Tags: Barack Obama·Barack Obama Sr·Dinesh D'Souza·kenya·President·United States
Last year Jim Greer, republican chairman of the Florida GOP excoriated President Barack Obama‘s speech to school children. Greer–like many others in his party–accused the president of using “taxpayer money to try and indoctrinate America’s youth to his Socialist agenda.” With this year’s speech by the president set for this afternoon in Philadelphia, Greer–who is [...]
Tags: Barack Obama·Florida GOP·Jim Greer·republican·United States
The president shows fire! He’s going to need more of this in the coming weeks: And I know — I know that there are folks right here in this audience, folks right here in Milwaukee and all across America, who are going through these kinds of struggles. Eight million Americans lost their jobs in this [...]
Tags: Barack Obama·Employment·Health Care·middle class·Private sector·Republicans·United States
General David Petraeus– the top commander of American military forces in Afghanistan– has a message for the good Christians of Dove World Church who plan to hold a Quran burning rally September 11th, 2010: Don’t do it. Petraeus said the Taliban would exploit the demonstration for propaganda purposes, drumming up anger toward the U.S. and making [...]
Tags: Afghanistan·Conservatives·Islam·Quran·Taliban·United States·War
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