Jobs, Jobs . . . Senate Republicans Keep Vets Unemployed
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
“Where is our honor? Where is our valor? Where is our sacrifice?” —Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), leading opposition to Veterans Jobs Corps Act
“I care deeply about the veterans. I care ...
Rising Tide 7 Is Sat. Sept. 22 at Xavier > Register Now!
Everyone within walking, flying, or hiking distance of the Croissant City is urged to sign up now for the seventh annual Rising Tide conference on the future of New Orleans. This year’s keynote speakers—why have ...
Bush White House Ignored 9/11 Warnings
The Deafness Before the Storm
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Briefly noted, highly recommended:
Kurt Eichenwald, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former reporter for the New York Times, wrote a strong but restrained op-ed piece for the Times yesterday describing in more detail than is generally known how ...
Democrats Grow a Backbone
John Kerry, Deval Patrick, and Other DNC Highlights
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVxRmNO6Qs0
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My message is this—it is time for Democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe. Quit waiting—quit waiting, quit waiting for pundits or polls or super PACs to tell us who the ...
Forward: Four More Years for Mr. President
“When you pick up that ballot to vote, you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation.”
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“. . . the election four years ago wasn’t about me. It was about you. My fellow citizens, you were the change. You’re the reason there’s a little girl with a heart disorder in Phoenix ...
The Big Hug
Clinton Wows Dems, Urges 2nd Term for Obama
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In Tampa, the Republican argument against the president’s reelection . . . went something like this: “We left him a total mess. He hasn’t cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in.”
Listen to me now. No president, no ...
Hurricane Isaac and Tampa’s Blizzard of Lies
What Would Romney-Ryan Mean for FEMA and Infrastructure?
[ cross-posted at DailyKos ]
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“One of the themes of the Tampa convention will be the failure of government, and the prosperity that will result if it is cut to ribbons. But in a different corner of the television screen, the winds ...
Isaac Aims at Mouth of Mississippi, Greater New Orleans
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On exactly the seven-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina (Aug. 29), Tropical Storm Isaac is heading toward the mouth of the Mississippi River, likely to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, and possibly as a Category 2, with wind speeds up to about 100 m.p.h. Click on the diagram ...
Tom Hayden, SDS and SNCC Alums:
Happy 50th, Port Huron Statement!
SDS National Council Meeting, September 1963. Tom Hayden stands at far left. [Photo by C. Clark Kissinger]
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“We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. . . . First, the permeating and ...
Todd Gitlin on Port Huron Statement’s 50th Anniversary
Early ’60s idealism: The mimeographed mission statement of a new generation
[ Part 1 of a 2-part series | also @ DailyKos ]
“The genius of the Port Huron Statement, as it was structured, was placing its declaration of values up front. The movement would not be guided by interests but by ...
RFK, MLK: “This mindless menace of violence in America”
“Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit [of hatred and revenge] flourish any longer in our land.” —Robert F. Kennedy, April 5, 1968
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On the day after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., then senator Robert F. Kennedy ...
4/4, 44 Years Ago . . .
“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” —Aeschylus
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It was the night of April 4, 1968, when word spread that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been slain by ...