“What would you withhold from someone who opposes
health care reform? Cookies, a Christmas gift, sex?”
Are you withholding sex for healthcare reform? If not, you haven’t seen the latest Rock the Vote (RTV) video rallying support for President Obama’s heathcare agenda. RTV, one of the most influential youth-targeted organizations working “to achieve progressive change in our [...]
Trading Sex For Healthcare Reform
January 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Is the Internet Destroying Our Lives or Enriching Them?
January 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
My friend Douglas Rushkoff, author of the must-read book Life Inc., has a new documentary on PBS on February 2 at 9:00 PM EST. It’s called Digital Nation and is about the effects of the internet on our culture and lives.
Salon has a story worth reading which interviews Rushkoff about this new project.
Let’s see, so [...]
A Wicked Man? No, a Fool with Wicked Ideas
January 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been uncomfortable with one characterization in my blog on Howard Zinn, and have decided I want to correct and will ask our editor David Swindle to do so in the original text. This brief blog is by way of explanation. I’m uncomfortable with calling Zinn a “wicked man” and thereby putting him in the [...]
Behar and Whoopi: These Two Women Could Turn Me Into a Misogynist
January 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
From Lori Ziganto’s latest article at Right Wing News
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are an utter embarrassment to my gender. I find them offensive, as a woman. Idiocy, in action:
From NewsBusters:
On HLN’s Joy Behar Show on Thursday, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg gave a racial explanation for Chris Matthews’ recent “I forgot he was black” remark [...]
NewsReal Sunday: Pro-choice Groups Prove to Be Anti-Speech and Anti-Choice w/ Tebow Ad
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Brainwashing America’s Youth: Obama Uses Public Schools To Indoctrinate Students; Required Reading: Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”
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Like all radicals in positions of power, President Obama’s army of citizen volunteers, Organizing for America, is recruiting high school students as interns to organize the President’s agenda in the 2010 election cycle. I quote,
“Organizing for America, the successor organization to Obama for America, is building on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering [...]
From the Writings of David Horowitz: January 31, 2010
January 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
When Sarah settled into the new apartment on Bush Street, she became master of her own space and began to move in new directions. “She wanted to be a different person, wanted a new life,” Emily recalls. “She loved living by herself, without roommates; it gave her a new independence. Whatever she did now didn’t [...]
Is Spending Money on Air Superiority Really a Waste, Mr. President?
January 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
New Russian stealth fighter makes its first flight
It was called “the most outstanding fighter plane ever built.”
A fifth-generation fighter jet utilizing the latest stealth technology, it was a single seat, twin-engine powerhouse capable of overpowering anything it came up against. Known as the F-22 Raptor, its combination of stealth, speed, agility, precision, air-to-air and air-to-ground [...]
Barack Obama: Sports Commentator, Duke Mojo Killer
It was supposed to be a good game.
The kids were napping as my husband and I ate lunch, enjoying some Newcastle, watching a decent match up of two top ten teams, Duke and Georgetown. Until…Barack Obama, ubiquity personified, was revealed on the sidelines with his entourage: Joe Biden, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, and Reggie Love, [...]