“You can’t understand it. You would have to be born there.” – Quentin Compson, Absalom, Absalom, referring to the South Too often those of us born in the South fall back upon the ambiguity of Faulknerian explanations when we try to help friends understand why our region of the country is so obsessed with certain […]
Archive | June 28, 2007
Your tax dollars at work
By Rori Black According to the National Priorities Project (NPP), Colorado tax payers will give $2.1 billion in 2007 to fund the Iraqi war. It’s comforting to know that we are so flush that we can afford to throw cash, as well as our young men and women, as this fiasco. Giving money and power […]
Echoes from the culture wars: excerpts from immigration bill rhetoric
If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill’s an amnesty bill. That’s empty political rhetoric trying to frighten our citizens. — President Bush May 29 at a training center for customs protection agents and other federal agents in southeastern Georgia. You are the problem, Sen. [Trent] Lott. You and […]
Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
By Martin Bosworth I had the pleasure of subbing in for Sam for a conference call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today. Although there were a good number of progressive bloggers in attendance with a lot to say, Pelosi pretty much dominated the conversation, sometimes answering questions before people could even ask them. I was […]
Campaign mobile: it’s 1996 all over again
Every time a new medium catches our attention we have to endure this awkward period where people who have decision-making and spending authority but no understanding of the medium at all treat it like it’s the old media they’re used to. Old assumptions, old practices … failure. It’s like in 1996 when ad agencies discovered […]
Immigration reform or Uncle Sam’s green card draft?
by Amaury Nora When it comes to immigration reform, one of the biggest fears many have is that Congress might pass some type of domestic policy that is intended to hurt not only the best interest of the nation, but the interest of immigrants – legal and undocumented – who are trying to navigate through […]
Discredited government and the 2008 election
By Robert Silvey George Bush has done his work—with a little help from Dick Cheney, as the Washington Post series this week has made clear—and he has almost certainly changed the political landscape for decades. His arrogance and incompetence have so thoroughly discredited the Republican Party that Democrats start the 2008 races with a huge […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- Profiling the Tea Party: In defense of the IRS. Sorta. Or not.
- Saturday Video Roundup: “Imagine the Band,” by John Lennon and Wings
- The Rest is Noise (6)—Descent into the Maelstrom
- I hate handguns, but I have still considered owning one
- Redneck jokes are racist
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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