Posted on 05 January 2010. Tags: Democrats, Middle Class, National Security, Republicans, Transportation Security Administration, Unions
The Republican world view of "national security" has been laid bare–ideology is more important than the security of the people. In my view, the fallout from the airplane terror plot makes this abundantly clear. I start from my own touchstones about the definition of "national security": it is a measure of how the people […]
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Posted on 01 January 2010. Tags: collective bargaining, Jim DeMint, National Security, Transportation Security Administration, Unions
There was a bit of wisdom that one could gain from the airline terror plot that, in my view, says a lot about the Republican view of the world and our own definition of national security. Yesterday, to its credit, The New York Times had an editorial entitled "Senator DeMint’s Priorities," which made this […]
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Posted on 30 December 2009. Tags: Children, Food Stamps, National Security, Poverty
…is that one in four children in the United States of America–the wealthiest country in human history–are on food stamps.
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Posted on 14 May 2008. Tags: China, George Bush, Insanity, Leadership, National Security
[a technical glitz made this post invisible–until now]. Maybe it’s the beautiful spring air but my mind is off in other directions than usual. So, here are two seemingly unrelated things that caught my attention that are actually related. First, is it just me or did anyone else pick up on the stark […]
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