Category: Current events
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Revisiting the Van Jones debacle — lots of blame to go around
I was going to write about something else this week, but the ouster of green-jobs adviser Van Jones from the Obama administration has me livid. It’s just so wrong in so many ways and on so many levels. Of course the smear campaign by the right-wing noise machine, led by…
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In search of passionate intensity
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” —”The Second Coming,” W.B. Yeats My previous post advocated for more passionate intensity from the sensible majority in this country and our representatives in government. Without that, the worst will win. So I was very glad to…
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Health Care Reform and Energy Reform — Half a Loaf or Just Crumbs?
The array of forces against meaningful reform is formidable and relentless. How will progressives—and all people with basic common sense—respond?
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