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Fables of Wealth
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:32 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Our most destructive lie, he added, “is that it is very easy for any American to make money.” The lie goes on. The poor are lazy, stupid and evil. The rich are brilliant, courageous and good. They shower their beneficence upon the rest of us.
Murdoch's Pride Is America's Poison
Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 8:37 AM EDT (The New York Times)
My complaint is that Fox pretends very hard to be something it is not, and in the process contributes to the corrosive cynicism that has polarized our public discourse.
Why Democracy is not Working - The difference between our values and our leaders' values.
Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:48 PM EST
Given teh central role that democracy is supossed to play in our lives, Im always concerned that 99% of the people I talk to tell me that virtually none of our political, entertainment or business leaders share their basic values.
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Whites, not Blacks, Collect Greatest Share of Public Aid Dollars
Seeded on Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:23 PM EST (CBS Business Interactive Library)
SAY the word "welfare" and immediately the image of the lazy Black wellare queen who breeds for profit surfaces in the minds of those who have come to believe the hideous stereotype.
Turning America into Pottersville
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:59 AM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
For many years, it appeared that the Right wanted to take the United States back to the 1950s -- when blacks "knew their place," women were "in the kitchen" and gays stayed "in the closet" -- but it turns out that the intended back-in-time-travel was to the 1920s, to an era of …
What Are you really - Conservative, Socialsit, Facist or Communist? How to figure out your actual Political makeup!
Sat Jan 7, 2012 2:07 PM EST
This tool is about the best indicator I have seen of how 3 dimensional our political views are, and how a Communist, capitalist and centrist can have the same basic government and social structure despite widely different state economic and social goals. Another key point is t …
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The G.O.P.'s 'Black People' Platform
Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 7:04 AM EST (The New York Times)
As we’ve gotten around to casting votes to select a Republican presidential nominee, the antiblack rhetoric has taken center stage. You just have to love (and despise) this kind of predictability.
Did we not listen to Orwell's 1984?
Sun Jan 1, 2012 10:57 PM EST
The British author George Orwell, best known for his anti-authoritarian works Animal Farm and 1984, was a soldier in the International Brigades supporting the Anarchist/Socialist Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. Orwell meticulously documented his first-hand o …
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Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
Seeded on Sun Jan 1, 2012 8:38 PM EST (ABC News)
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision.
The Minimum Wage and Capitalism | Reports from the Economic Front
Seeded on Sun Jan 1, 2012 7:05 PM EST (Reports from the Economic Front)
On January 1st, the minimum wage increased in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. These eight states all have laws which require them to automatically increase their respective minimum wages by the rate of inflation.
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