civil rights

Event: "Here’s how Gov. Sarah Palin’s Clearwater visit unfolded"

“Palin goes on the attack in Clearwater”
“Palin Wows ‘Em In Clearwater”
“Palin rally brings 20000 to Clearwater”

I’m starting to feel fearful.

“Palin goes on attack in visit to Clearwater”
“Clearwater crowd welcomes Sarah Palin to Florida”
“Palin folksy, feisty in Clearwater”

While I’m politically on the same page as most of my friends, I often think that they’re alarmist.

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Event: Quick Political Note.

Write your senators (especially if they happen to be on the Judiciary Community) and tell them that they’d better either hear Mukasey declare that waterboarding is torture, or vote the cut off a confirmation hearing.

There are a few political issues in our lives that ought to be emphatic and unambiguous.

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Event: Beating an Undead Horse.

New York Times: Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations.

Yeah, I know that a subject so often repeated loses its viscerality.
I also know that a lack of progress or change inspires a feeling of futility.
And I know that the more drastic a comparison is, the more cliche and stale it seems.

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Event: What Do We Think of This?

New York Times: Amid Protests, President of Iran Speaks at Columbia.

I’m very curious what you think.

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Event: A Good Post Worth Reading.

Tom‘s on a roll this month. I always like his blogging, political and otherwise, but this month he’s been even more prolific than usual. Last Friday he analyzed God and the religious right as suggested by Oklahoma State Senator Ernie Chambers:

Human beings tend to make Gods in our own image.

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Event: Support the DREAM Act.

Take five minutes and email/write/call your senator in support of the DREAM Act.

It is difficult to imagine any progressive and useful approach to Immigration Reform that does not involve common-sense measures such as are provided by the DREAM Act.

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