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A New Presidential Biography Reminds Us Why We Should Like Ike.
On October 4th, Jim Newton’s Presidential biography, Eisenhower: The White House Years arrives in bookstores. This is exciting news. Not just because the author is a very dear friend of mine – but because I can’t think of a more … Continue reading
Will Today Mark the Rebirth of the Progressive Movement in America?
From the land of Fighting Bob La Follette… Tuesday, August 9th is a very special election day in Wisconsin. Today just might be the day that progressive populist grassroots action will stem the tide of the GOP’s pro-corporate, anti-union, neo-fascist … Continue reading
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Daring to Say the F Word…
Now that the debt ceiling fight is over, the newspaper scribes in the Washington press corps and the pundits on television (“the dunderpates”, as my wife calls them) prattle on about the winners and losers in this sorry showdown. President … Continue reading
Babes in Government-land…
I’ve had enough. I’m tired of dealing with babies. This whole Debt Ceiling “crisis” has made it clear to me that, with the Tea Party Caucus in the House of Representatives, we are dealing with political babies. As a parent … Continue reading
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The (New) American Crisis.
American patriot Thomas Paine served in George Washington’s army during the Revolutionary War as an aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene. In the desperate winter of ’76, the war was going badly — and Washington’s valiant, weary, and ill-equipped troops were … Continue reading
Pausing Amid the Political Hysteria…
As President Obama negotiates with Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders on the critical issues of raising the debt ceiling and reducing the Federal budget deficit, each breathless (and very sketchy) media report on the progress of those negotiations has been … Continue reading
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Mid-Term Madness: The Top Ten
With the continuing misadventures of the Tea Party candidates, Election Season 2010 has, despite the efforts of Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show, entered the realm of Beyond Satire. Radical policy positions that would have seemed extreme in any … Continue reading
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Common Cents
I’m not as good a student of the American Revolution as I’d like to be, but what I do know about the founding of our nation — the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the Federalist Papers, the Constitutional Convention … Continue reading
10 Rays of Sunshine…
Election Day 2010 was a dark day for many of us on the side of truth, justice, and the Progressive American Way — but it does no good to retreat into the shadows of negativity. We must continue to move … Continue reading →
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