Inequality Marches On — The Death March of American Inequality
I know some of our readers believe that no matter how unfair and extreme income inequality becomes, there is nothing the government can do — we must let the free markets set the course. But what if those free markets are setting us on a course for destruction? Do we accept our ultimate demise as [...]
How to Lose Friends yet Influence Elections
Reblogged from Joe Mohr's Cartoon Archive: The next edition of this board game hopefully won’t have that card included… More on Citizens United and Super PACs From HuffPo: Citizens United and Contributions to Super PACs: A Little History Is in Order From Salon: The hard truth about Citizens United From Open Secrets: Super PACs (full [...]
Bush and Paulson Save America from Depression!
Reblogged from Desert Dogmeh: Bet that got your attention That is the line that Mitt Romney is pushing, “I keep hearing the president say he’s responsible for keeping the country out of a Great Depression,” Romney said in front of around 200 people at an American Legion post. “No, no, no, that was President George [...]
Vince Marsala: Politicians are Wrecking Our Schools - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Reblogged from : As election season nears, grandstanding Democratic and Republican politicians will discuss the importance of educators and not teaching to a test. Then, with their empty rhetoric still in the air, they will enact laws that base evaluations on test scores, weaken due process, and inject competition. Meanwhile, many news organizations, who have [...]
The Mormon Question
Sarah Posner at Salon explores the question of when and how to ask tough questions about a presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s religion. Romney was a Mormon bishop for several years in Massachusetts and had religious authority over Mormon women and men who came to him for counseling. He saw his church through profound political changes. [...]
WHJJ Sent me an Email!
UPDATE: Check this out at Daily Kos for what happens if you read the FCC regulations and exercise your right to place a comment in the public file each station needs to keep. Also, bloggers report that local stations are running a lot of unpaid public service announcements during Rush Limbaugh. Dear Kmareka Readers, I [...]
Rush and The Pill
Which pill is only used by sluts? Not this one, in 2003… Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities on a warrant filed Friday charging him with fraud to conceal information to obtain prescriptions, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Jail. He and his attorney Roy Black left about an hour later, [...]
The Unspeakable Sin
Love that title. I have just a few minutes to write a start for a more complete post with citations, but I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. The religious right is handling one issue with kid gloves. It’s a practice clearly condemned in the New Testament, and indefensible with the logic used [...]
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