"Labor Boss Acknowledges Own ‘Lambourghini Health Plan’ at Single-Payer Strategy Conference" For those of you who need more evidence to explain how the nation’s Big Three Automakers ended up in such financial strife, take a look at this video I shot as the only...
"NOW President O’Neill Slams Catholic Bishops" Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, accused Catholic bishops of “smelling blood” and deciding to get involved as backers of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. She added that their actions to...
Michael Lighty, the former national director of the Democratic Socialists of America who now serves as public policy director of the ultra-liberal California Nurses Association, spent 10 minutes Saturday afternoon addressing a group of roughly 100 single-payer health care...
“Number one on my list continues to be the insurance companies, the for-profit insurance companies,” said Dr. Quentin Young early in his speech during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis. The...
Advocates of single-payer health care will not stop there, according to Jerry Tucker, former member of the UAW International Executive Board who now represents the group, Labor for Single Payer. Speaking during...
"A national survey of the number of homosexual clergy in the Church of England will take place this year, according to gay rights campaigners. Inclusive Church, a network of individuals and organisations working for better recognition of minorities, says the survey will be...
I ran across this opinion piece at RealClearPolitics.com. I thought it was a remarkable piece of insight, though I will bet that the analysand here, the liberal wing of the democratic party, objects. The expression...
Michael, the creative mind at My Personal Litmus, believes the 60-year-old animated short, Make Mine Freedom (1948), should be shown to every school child in the United States. Furthermore, he writes: "The...
I had the fortune to see the author, Phyllis Chesler speak at an event I went to. She has been on the forefront for Women issues in the U.S. for many years. " The London School of Economics has just banned the...
South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman died yesterday at the age of 91. She was a committed liberal, not only at a time when it was an unfashionable political stance, but in the face of great adversity. As a Jewish woman in a parliament dominated by male Calvinist...
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"Will he disappoint us? Will we disappoint him? Will we disappoint ourselves?" Read the second installment of the Obama trilogy from The Liberal magazine at: http://www.theliberal.co.uk/Barack_Obama_and_the_Politics_of_Expectation.html
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"In Focus: From Abu-Fana to Al-Burullus Opinion By Khalil Al-Anani, June 10, 2008Egypt is boiling; this is the least one can say of the general conditions in Egypt. From Abu-Fana monastery, which witnessed violent clashes between Muslims and Copts less than two weeks ago, to...
An essay by editor of The Liberal magazine, Benjamin Ramm, exploring the meaning of Barack Obama's candidacy: ``Obama ’s unifying project aims to make the United States more than the sum of its parts – not a union divided and ruled, appeased and triangulated, but...
Ideas necessarily generate their opposites, making for conflict, and, often, violence. The hatred generated by such adversarial antitheses dehumanises humanity. That is why it is imperative to move away from ideas towards practice.
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The Catholic League has gotten its knickers in a knot about the organizers of the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco. Apparently they don't like the fact that the last supper is being depicted as a place...
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