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Why The West Must Maintain The Moral High Ground

In Al Qaeda, American Values, Barack Obama, Blackwater, Bureaucracy, Christianity, Constitution, Defense Contractors, Dick Cheney, Faiths, Federal Government, First Amendment, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Homeland Security, Ideologies, International, Islam, John McCain, New York, Osama Bin Laden, Patriotism, Racism, Religious Right, Special Interests, The Congress, The Pentagon, The White House, Totalitarianism, Washington on January 6, 2012 at 5:02 am

I was born to Chinese parents. Raised as a Christian in a Muslim country. And we spoke English as a first language at home.

Which is, to say, I grew up in the most eclectic of environments. Where the singing of Methodist hymns was as familiar a sound to me as the Muslim call to prayer during dawn and dusk. And where I celebrated Chinese New Year and Christmas just surely as I celebrated the festival of Eid alongside Muslim friends.

I didn’t see it as exotic. Or intriguing. Or strange. It was just the nature of life in Malaysia. Read the rest of this entry »

In the Shadow of the Tea Party Revolt: Where are the Jobs, Jobs Jobs?

In 2011, ABC News, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bureaucracy, Business, Campaign 2012, Corporatocracy, Defense Contractors, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Elections, Federal Government, George W. Bush, GOP, Ideologies, John Boehner, Liberals, Politics, Racism, Religious Right, Republicans, Rick Perry, Ronald Reagan, States, Tea Party, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Senate, The White House, Treasury Department, Voter Registration, Voting, Wall Street, Washington on September 1, 2011 at 1:01 pm

We are just two months away from the anniversary of the mid-term election of 2010, the oft-celebrated “Tea Party Revolt” by the Right.  Tea Party Republicans swept into the 2010 mid-terms, riding mountains of cash from a select few special interests, funding a few dozen astroturf citizen movements like the Club for Growth and a few dozen more foundations and other political money laundering schemes. [1]

Corporations kept their tax loopholes. The uber-rich continue to siphon the Treasury with their 3% tax break. After trillions in proposed cuts in government spending, the slashing of civil rights, the destruction of the right of labor to organize and the slashing of the social safety net, we all have a question for representatives Boehner and Cantor:

Where, in all of this, are the “jobs, jobs, jobs?

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Reactionary Right Lose the Night with Wilson Back-Bencher Blast

In 2009, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, GOP, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Joe Biden, John Boehner, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Republicans, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Senate on September 10, 2009 at 8:42 am

Reactionary Right Lose the Night with Wilson Back-Bencher Blast

Last night, we saw the definition of true centrist leadership. President Obama used the power of his office, and the perfect forum of the halls of legislative power, both to make his case to the American people, and to prove to voters that the adults were still in charge of government.

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Dick Cheney: Through the Cracked Moral Compass, Darkly

In Barack Obama, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Fox News, GOP, Halliburton, MSNBC, Republicans on April 22, 2009 at 10:33 am

Dick Cheney, Through the Cracked Moral Compass, Darkly

Should it be surprising that Dick Cheney, the guy who is the chief architect of the morally and ethically bankrupt Bush Administration policies on everything from the Iraq War to torture to padding Halliburton’s pockets to shipping jobs overseas to the gelding of the media now wants to use his Fox News mouthpiece to try and spin a positive light on his misdeeds in office? It is as if he is daring the Obama Administration to put him on trial. The question is, why?

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