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Rebecca Dana, Jeff Kreisler, Tunisia and the Public Option
January 20, 2011"It's dangerous to discount as mere theater what the Republicans do," notes Rebecca Dana of the Daily Beast. She points out that a lot will depend on who controls Congress in 2012--symbolic moves to repeal health care reform will be a lot less symbolic if the Senate is under Republican control as well.John Fugelsang: Three Reasons the GOP Should Love the Public Option
January 20, 2011Republicans in Congress, we need to talk. Congrats on your inspiring vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. I know you hate Obamacare – and on some levels, I agree with you. This bill is so watered down Dick Cheney could take it to Gitmo and pour it on Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s face.John Lewis, All Fracked Up and Stop the Bullying
October 8, 2010"We didn't have sponsors when we came to Washington in 1963. We didn't have sponsors when we marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. The young people that came to Mississippi in 1964, and three of my colleagues died, didn't have sponsors. We came out of the feeling that we wanted to redeem the soul of America."John Fugelsang: Stop Calling it Bullying
October 8, 2010Due to the recent wave of kids - especially gay teenagers - who've been bullied to the point of taking their own lives, the U.S. media's begun talking about bullying & teen suicide. It's so horrible that Americans have finally begun to do what we do best - fight with each other over what to do and never accomplish anything.Holy Wars: Faith and Fear
August 5, 2010"I conceived a film driven by fear and ended up with one grounded in faith," wrote Stephen Marshall of the process of making his documentary, Holy Wars. The award-winning director wanted to shoot a film about the dangers of religious extremism, and wound up learning from the two men he followed, Khalid Kelly and Aaron Taylor.Bill Fletcher Jr., Holy Wars, and Courage Campaign
August 4, 2010Barack Obama spent his 49th birthday speaking to labor leaders at an AFL-CIO federation meeting, but GRITtv commentator Bill Fletcher, Jr. noted that Obama needs to do more than attend meetings--it's time for some action on the Employee Free Choice Act. In addition, Fletcher notes, Obama should be situating himself among working people, not just union higher-ups, against the "economic royalists" who would keep the economy's fundamental inequality.John Fugelsang: Guns, God, and Goldman
April 21, 2010Gun advocates rallied this week in support of their right to bear arms, the Pope has said that his church has sinned, Goldman Sachs is giving out bonuses in the throes of SEC charges, and laptops are taking pictures of kids while they sleep! This may sound like a vision of the end times, but really it's just another week in the news these days.John Fugelsang, Climate Change, and Coal Goes Shopping
April 20, 2010Gun advocates rallied this week in support of their right to bear arms, the Pope has said that his church has sinned, Goldman Sachs is giving out bonuses in the throes of SEC charges, and laptops are taking pictures of kids while they sleep! This may sound like a vision of the end times, but really it's just another week in the news these days.Media Narratives, Gaza and Uncle Bob
January 7, 2010No matter what the news is, which country has tensions, who's making threats, the response from TV news seems to be the same: quote Dick Cheney. We saw plenty of that this week, along with pronouncements that Democrats are doomed in 2010, complaints about progressives who've criticized the health care bill, and of course Tiger Woods.The F Word: What Do You Mean, Civilized?
January 7, 2010The Washington Post ran an impassioned editorial January 7, condemning the anti-homosexuality law being considered in Uganda.
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