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AUGUST 30, 2010, 7:22 pm
By Bob Herbert -- The New York Times.
America is better than Glenn Beck. For all of his celebrity, Mr. Beck is an ignorant, divisive, pathetic figure. On the anniversary of the great 1963 March on Washington he will stand in the shadows of giants — Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Who do you think is more representative of this nation?
Consider a brief sampling of their rhetoric.
Lincoln: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
King: “Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter.”
Beck: “I think the president is a racist.”Read more »
AUGUST 23, 2010, 6:18 pm
By PAUL KRUGMAN -- New York Times.
We need to pinch pennies these days. Don’t you know we have a budget deficit? For months that has been the word from Republicans and conservative Democrats, who have rejected every suggestion that we do more to avoid deep cuts in public services and help the ailing economy.
But these same politicians are eager to cut checks averaging $3 million each to the richest 120,000 people in the country.Read more »
AUGUST 23, 2010, 12:58 pm
The Huffington Post.
The middle class is getting whacked by the Great Recession. Fifteen million people are out of work, another 9 million workers can only find part-time jobs, and millions more have given up looking for work altogether. Those lucky enough to be employed are unlikely to see any substantial wage gains for years to come.Read more »
AUGUST 23, 2010, 12:55 pm
New York Times.
For months, it has been clear that Republican Congressional candidates would benefit from independent voters’ dissatisfaction with President Obama. With the Republican field now largely in place, all voters might want to take a close look at who those candidates are.Read more »
AUGUST 16, 2010, 5:36 pm
The New York Times.
By GAIL COLLINS
The story in American history I most like to tell is the one about how women got the right to vote 90 years ago this month. It has everything. Adventure! Suspense! Treachery! Drunken legislators!
But, first, there was a 70-year slog.
Which is really the important part. We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.Read more »
AUGUST 12, 2010, 1:56 pm
Robert L. Borosage -- President, Institute for America's Future
Huffingtonpost.com
"I still believe that this will be largely a referendum on the administration's policies," said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, explaining why the primary successes of wingnut tea party conservatives may not hurt Republican chances this fall.Read more »
AUGUST 11, 2010, 3:20 pm
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AUGUST 9, 2010, 2:54 pm
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AUGUST 5, 2010, 4:22 pm
New York Times.
Until Wednesday, the thousands of same-sex couples who have married did so because a state judge or Legislature allowed them to. The nation’s most fundamental guarantees of freedom, set out in the Constitution, were not part of the equation. That has changed with the historic decision by a federal judge in California, Vaughn Walker, that said his state’s ban on same-sex marriage violated the 14th Amendment’s rights to equal protection and due process of law.Read more »
AUGUST 5, 2010, 3:11 pm
By Bill McKibben -- LA Times.
Environmentalists have tried the compromise route. It hasn't worked.
Try to fit these facts together:
•According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade, the warmest 12 months, the warmest six months and the warmest April, May and June on record.
•A "staggering" new study from Canadian researchers has shown that warmer seawater has reduced phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain, by 40% since 1950.Read more »
AUGUST 2, 2010, 2:07 pm
By Bill Press, Tribune Media Services
You've heard of the gang that couldn't shoot straight? Barack Obama's the man who can't shoot straight. His first 20 months have zipped by with nothing to show for them. He's broken every promise he made. He's achieved not one major legislative accomplishment. It even took him three months to plug an oil leak.
That's the rap on President Obama, from commentators on both the right and the left. It's ubiquitous, it's loud, it's earnest -- and it's dead wrong.Read more »
AUGUST 2, 2010, 2:05 pm
By DAVID STOCKMAN - New York Times.Read more »
