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Tax the Rich

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:46:43 -0800

Tax the Rich

Elizabeth Warren for President

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:08:03 -0800

Elizabeth Warren for President

Loving Truth

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:29:59 -0800

via starthrower:

*The one who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.* Samuel Taylor Coleridge, *Aids to Reflection, *Moral and Religious Aphorisms, XXIV

A SUPREME COUP

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:42:45 -0800

starthrower:

This is not judicial activism, it’s judicial radicalism – a black-robed political coup over America’s historic democratic ideals. Five men have just overthrown the power of the people’s vote, enthroning corporate money as supreme in all of our country’s elections. Jefferson, Madison, and the other founders of our democratic republic are not merely spinning in their graves – they’re trying to claw their way out and throttle these shameful usurpers. Remember their names – Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas. Corporate whores. Jim Hightower, *1/21/10*

The Lost Decade

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:16:18 -0800

The Lost Decade

Religious Coexistence

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:40:53 -0800

starthrower:

In a world marked by the coexistence of multiple faiths … the horizontal relations between faiths require as much attention as the vertical dimension of each.

William Connolly, from the book Pluralism

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Refuse to make the other the enemy

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:13:55 -0800

via starthrower:

“One of the problems in the past with interfaith dialogue is we’ve been too unwilling to upset each other. We try to honor the truth. This is the truth for you, and this is the truth for me. It may not be reconcilable, but it is important to refuse to make the other the enemy.”Rabbi Ted Falcon, with Rev. Don Mackenzie and Sheik Jamal Rahman, who call themselves the “interfaith amigos” as they speak around the country on what they call “the spirituality of interfaith relations.” (New York…

"Rand was broken by the Bolsheviks as a girl, and she never left their bootprint behind. She believed..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:03:12 -0800

“Rand was broken by the Bolsheviks as a girl, and she never left their bootprint behind. She believed her philosophy was Bolshevism’s opposite, when in reality it was its twin. Both she and the Soviets insisted a small revolutionary elite in possession of absolute rationality must seize power and impose its vision on a malleable, imbecilic mass. The only difference was that Lenin thought the parasites to be stomped on were the rich, while Rand thought they were the poor.”

- The perverse allure of a damaged woman.

Econ 101

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:28:23 -0700

starthrower:

*“We’ve spent the last few decades shoveling money at the rich like there was no tomorrow. We abandoned the poor, put an economic stranglehold on the middle class and all but bankrupted the federal government — while giving the banks and megacorporations and the rest of the swells at the top of the economic pyramid just about everything they’ve wanted.”* *Bob Herbert op-ed column, “Safety Nets for the Rich.”* (New York Times)

Religious Distinction

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:02:51 -0700

starthrower:

*One of my distinctions in religion is not liberal and conservative, but mean and non-mean. You have mean liberals and mean conservatives, and you have non-mean of both.* * Dr. Martin Marty, retired professor of Church History, University of Chicago*

Max Baucus

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:29:49 -0700

Max Baucus

And then they came for me

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:56:37 -0700

And then they came for me

Publicly Financed Elections & Lobbyists

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:08:36 -0700

Publicly Financed Elections & Lobbyists

Greed

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:50:36 -0700

Greed

(via juliasegal)

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:29:34 -0700

(via juliasegal)

G-20 Summit

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:46:32 -0700

starthrower:

* * * “The most important indicator of economic recovery should be what happens to hungry and poor people — the many families who are struggling in our own country and the tens of millions who have been driven into hunger around the world,”* The Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World said in preparation for the G-20 Faith Leaders Summit, Sept. 22-23. It will precede the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit in Pittsburgh. Organized by Bread for the World, the Alliance to End Hunger, and other partners, more than 25 national religious leaders representing the Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths will attend. Together, they will press for actions—not just words—that will help hungry and poor people to lift themselves out of poverty.

Glenn Beck & Sean Hannity

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:30:17 -0700

Glenn Beck & Sean Hannity

Kanye did what? (via kanyegate)

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:54:52 -0700

Kanye did what?

(via kanyegate)

Wall Street vs. Detroit

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:14:56 -0700

Wall Street vs. Detroit

Theft

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:26:24 -0700

starthrower:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. Dwight D. Eisenhower Oft quoted but not taken seriously by our society