Democracy

DESPITE the treasonous and degenerate Republican efforts to stop us.. DESPITE the RACISTS (whether they care to admit it or not)... DESPITE them ALL, we WILL PREVAIL. "peacekitten" and I (lovers, partners) sent this out on election day 2008.. and...

Take action to support MN Gov. Mark Dayton in this tense government shutdown, as he fights to fill a $5 billion budget gap by making the wealthy pay their fair share instead of allowing Republicans to squeeze it all out of the middle class once again.

There's so much hostility in our society and media...doesn't it just piss you off?!

There seems to be less interest among Americans in the validity of a political conflict, even if its cause is clearly dishonest, than who comes out on top as the winner.

In yesterday's New York Times, Charles Blow, one of my favourite opinion writers, wrote a brilliant and poignantly evocative exhortation to politicians of all stripes not to forget the poor in all their shenanigans and manouevres. Blow called upon his...

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New Rule: If we stop treating politicians like the celebrities they're not, maybe then they'll act like responsible people we trust to represent us, instead of the celebrities they're not. May ended well for the Democratic party.  For the first...

I believe that socialism is the only system that we may subjugate ourselves to and still be able to call ourselves human and that society will slowly evolve into socialism, followed by the C-word, which I still have an unnatural reflex to.

  Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! ~Thomas A. Edison There is a lot of talk...

The loss of integrity in today's corporate journalism stands out in great contrast against the legacy of the remarkable Bill Moyers.