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When ‘Accommodating’ the Other Side Gets Expensive

Political Accommodation — In today’s political climate, policy “accommodations” to opponents become a sign of blood in the water.

By Tanya Acker posted on December 13, 2013

Demonizing Alternative Fuels

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Tanya Acker: Renewable energy failures get a lot of attention and generate a lot of (usually spastic) activity. The successes, not so much.

By Tanya Acker posted on May 7, 2013

LA’s Recent Election: When They Think Small, We Stay Home

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Tanya Acker: Why did 84 percent of Angelenos who had the potential to change something decide, for one reason or another, that doing so wasn’t worth their time.

By Tanya Acker posted on March 12, 2013

Move Over Real Housewives, It’s Time for Fun With Secret Donors

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Tanya Acker: Featured in the cast might be a group of “liberty-loving” freedom fighters who think that spreading the risk of health care costs is communism.

By Tanya Acker posted on June 8, 2012

A New Conversation about Public Spending Needed

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Tanya Acker: People who can’t read, however, are very easy to divide and even easier to command. No demagoguery can save us from that.

By Tanya Acker posted on May 18, 2012

The Best Reality Show EVER!

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Tanya Acker: artisans of a certain Texas governor who yearns to be president think that there is “no significance” to the fact that said governor’s family leased a ranch named with a slur used to taunt African-Americans as they were hunted and lynched.

By Tanya Acker posted on October 5, 2011

The Conrad Murray Trial: Medicine, Money and Patient Care

Tanya Acker: At the end of the day it will be for the jury — the one that sits in the actual courtroom — to decide whether Murray’s conduct was that of a solicitous personal physician or a fiscally driven reckless profiteer.

By Tanya Acker posted on September 27, 2011

It Takes Strength to Compromise — and It Costs Less, Too

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Tanya Acker: There is a lot of discussion these days about the detriments of compromise. When you compromise, for instance, certain people may claim you don’t stick to your guns and decide not to vote for you.

By Tanya Acker posted on July 24, 2011

Shame on You, Harry Reid

Tanya Acker: When I heard about the “split” in the Democratic party between Harry Reid and President Obama regarding the building of the mosque near Ground Zero, and as I listened to Senator Reid voice his objections to the mosque, my first thought was that the Senator should know better.

By Tanya Acker posted on August 18, 2010

Oh, Bill O’Reilly — It’s “Our” Country, Too

Tanya Acker: There are many among that celebrated group of “We the People” who are opposed to the Arizona law but who nonetheless remain deeply troubled by our broken immigration system. I am one of them and, frankly, I do not need to be lectured about the consequences of illegal immigration by Mr. O’Reilly or anyone else.

By Tanya Acker posted on June 10, 2010

Hypocritical Outrage: Why the Process of Engineering This Health Reform Bill Is No Uglier Than the Rest of Congress’ Handiwork

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Tanya Acker: Twice last week I was on panels with Republicans who expressed surprise about the “unseemly” tactics employed by Democrats in passing health care reform. The horsetrading was so “venal!” The process so “hyperpartisan!” Noble Americans, we should all be so very shocked! Well, not really.

By Tanya Acker posted on January 5, 2010

On Town Halls and Health Care Reform: Wasn’t Hitler the One With the Gun?

As the GOP and their allies have concluded that all is fair in their attempts to either destroy health care reform (of any kind) and/or gain political leverage against a popular President, I am feeling the need to don a bullet-proof vest.

By Tanya Acker posted on August 25, 2009

Forget Paper vs. Plastic: For the American Right, Gay Marriage Is the New Green

Here is a well-kept secret. Notwithstanding its efforts to ignore, marginalize, or dismiss environmental science, the American right is creating an environmental movement of its own. This one, however, has very little to do with preserving the earth or its resources but instead is premised on some quite remarkable efforts to recycle various “outrages” around […]

By Tanya Acker posted on June 10, 2009

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