"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead (Mostly what other say will be in italics, what I say will not. There will be occasions when this is messed up or forgotten, but generally it will true- for those keeping track of the opining vs the reporting!)
Saturday, July 05, 2014
You can't parody Erick Erickson, because he does it himself
You can't parody Erick Erickson, because he does it himself
Any smackdown of the Son of Erick is worth reading... lotsa fun :)
Any smackdown of the Son of Erick is worth reading... lotsa fun :)
What the battle over birth control is really about
What the battle over birth control is really about:
This is not just about religion.
This is not just about women's health.
This is not just about contraception.
This is about what kind of society we will be.
This is not just about religion.
This is not just about women's health.
This is not just about contraception.
This is about what kind of society we will be.
Friday, July 04, 2014
This Week In Crazy: Ted Nugent Saves Independence Day, And The Rest Of The Worst Of The Right - The National Memo
This Week In Crazy: Ted Nugent Saves Independence Day, And The Rest Of The Worst Of The Right - The National Memo
Hopefully the first of several Crazy Week posts... it WAS a crazy week! (Thanks again, Justice Kennedy!)
Hopefully the first of several Crazy Week posts... it WAS a crazy week! (Thanks again, Justice Kennedy!)
On July 4, A Message For Patriots Of All Persuasions - The National Memo
On July 4, A Message For Patriots Of All Persuasions - The National Memo:
...Let’s begin at the official beginning. Although “right” and “left” didn’t define political combat at that time on these shores, there isn’t much doubt that behind the American Revolution, and in particular the Declaration of Independence, was not only a colonial elite but a cabal of left-wing radicals as well.
How else to describe Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, the revolutionary idealists who declared their contempt for monarchy and aristocracy? It is true that many of their wealthier and more cautious comrades in the Continental Congress disdained Adams as a reckless adventurer “of bankrupt fortune,” and Paine as a rabble-rousing scribbler. Of course popular democracy was a wildly radical doctrine in colonial times, tamed in the writing of the Constitution by the new nation’s land-owning elites and slaveholders...
...Let’s begin at the official beginning. Although “right” and “left” didn’t define political combat at that time on these shores, there isn’t much doubt that behind the American Revolution, and in particular the Declaration of Independence, was not only a colonial elite but a cabal of left-wing radicals as well.
How else to describe Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, the revolutionary idealists who declared their contempt for monarchy and aristocracy? It is true that many of their wealthier and more cautious comrades in the Continental Congress disdained Adams as a reckless adventurer “of bankrupt fortune,” and Paine as a rabble-rousing scribbler. Of course popular democracy was a wildly radical doctrine in colonial times, tamed in the writing of the Constitution by the new nation’s land-owning elites and slaveholders...