By Tom Hayden
Categories: Progressive Issues
Tags: Act Requests, Angeles Police Department, Antonio Villaraigosa, Beatings, Brutal Crackdown, Clergy, Conspiracy, Controversy, Do The Right Thing, Insider Stock, mayor antonio villaraigosa, mayor of los angeles, Naomi Wolf, New Approach, No Doubt, Occupy, occupy la, occupy los angeles, OLA, ows, Peaceful Protestors, Police Violence, Public Records Act, Shocking Truth, Vested Interest
Tom Hayden: Compared with the brutal police crackdowns against the Occupy movement in New York City, Oakland and even the pacific Davis campus of theUniversity of California, the Los Angeles eviction last night was almost entirely peaceful. The question is why.
Read This PostBy Sharon Kyle
Categories: Featured Video
Tags: Amy Goodman, Chilling Effect, Conspiracy, Conviction, Democracy, Ed Piece, Furtherance, Government Agencies, Harsh Punishment, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights Organization, Independent Journalist, Juan Gonzalez, LA Times, Lynne Stewart, Material Support, More Than Thirty Years, More Than Twenty Years, Potential Victims, supreme court, terrorists, woman
For more than thirty years she represented controversial, and often unpopular defendants. Because of work she did in providing legal council to one of her clients she was charged with conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists.
Read This PostBy Steve Hochstadt
Categories: The Media
Tags: Aristocracy, Authorship, Baby Boomers, Book Students, common era, Concise Resource, Conservapedia, Conspiracy, cranky, Creationism, Denis Diderot, diederot, encyclopedia, Encyclopedias, First Commandment, French Revolution, Homework Assignments, ideas, internet encyclopedia project, Inventions Of The 21st Century, Knowlege, liberal, new encyclopedism, Online Encyclopedia, online encyclopedias, open content, Phyllis Schlafly, political ideologies, reference, Revolutionary Proposal, steve, steve hochstadt, Team Of Experts, the end, Universal Accessibility, vaccine, virtual communities, Wikipedia, world war ii, world wide web
Steve Hochstadt: Conservapedia is mainly silly, reflecting Schafly’s cranky ideas, such as that vaccines are a conspiracy to poison us. But the wider idea that science, and other kinds of knowledge, can be “liberal” or “conservative” is dangerous. This is exactly the argument that German Nazis and Soviet Communists used to reject “Jewish” or “capitalist” ideas.
Read This PostBy Richard M. Mathews
Categories: Healthcare Reform
Tags: Budget Reconciliation Process, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Effe, Falsehood, filibuster, health care reform, Judicial Confirmations, Judicial Filibusters, Nuclear Option, Republican Leadership, Republican Senator, republicans, Senate Conference, senate rules, Senate Version, Senators, Similarity, supermajority, Suspicions
Richard M. Mathews: With the death of the public option in the Senate version of the health care reform bill, more attention is being paid to the budget reconciliation process. The House-Senate conference could bring back the public option, but a filibuster could still kill it. The reconciliation process would allow the bill to pass with a simple majority of 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.
Read This PostBy Mark Bowen
Categories: California
Tags: 1776, 30-second spots, a simple majority, Alexander Hamilton, Author Of The Declaration Of Independence, ballot initiative, ballot initiatives, Beast, california initiative process, California’s budget process, Complete Control, complex issues and break them down into winning sound bites, Conservative Party, Conspiracy, cuts to education and public safety, Declaration of Independence, democrat vs. republican, difference between the two parties, direct democracy, Governments, Liberal Party, Men And Women, Opposition, Political Agenda, Prop 56, Proposition 187, proposition 209, proposition 8, Radical Notion, reform the budget process, reinstate majority rule, Republican agenda, simple majority initiative, sound bites, Talking Points, Treating the electorate like children, Two Thirds, two-thirds requirement, Vote Requirement, Wisdom
“… to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men [and women], deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…” — Declaration of Independence
“Your people, Mr. Jefferson, …