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“Get Out!” Santorum, Perkins and the Religious Right’s Vision of America
Peter Montgomery: Senior Fellow, People for the American Way – Posted: 03/20/2012 5:18 pm Monday was a lousy day for Rick Santorum’s...
Jay Murdock
Mar 21, 20128 min read


The License to Kill in Florida
Tom Hayden – Former State Senator and leader of sixties peace, justice and environmental movement When I spoke to hundreds of students in...
Jay Murdock
Mar 21, 20122 min read


How We Cured “The Culture of Poverty,” Not Poverty Itself
Barbara Ehrenreich – New York Times bestselling author Posted: 03/15/2012 9:44 am – Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com It’s been exactly...
Jay Murdock
Mar 15, 20125 min read


Homelessness a Racial Matter: Why Are Black Families Over-represented in Homeless Shelters?
Ralph da Costa Nunez: President, Institute For Children, Poverty & Homelessness – Posted: 03/14/2012 5:23 pm When U.S. attorney general...
Jay Murdock
Mar 15, 20123 min read


The Widening Wealth Divide, and Why We Need a Surtax on the Super Wealthy
Robert Reich: Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley Let Santorum and Romney duke it out for who...
Jay Murdock
Mar 13, 20122 min read


How We All Got Stuck Paying the Medical Bills of the Woman Who Sued to Kill Obamacare
Wendell Potter: Analyst at MSNBC and the Center for Public Integrity Posted: 03/12/2012 7:26 am If I were trying to persuade the Supreme...
Jay Murdock
Mar 13, 20124 min read


Conservatives Really Do Hate Markets
James Peron: President, Moorfield Storey Institute Posted: 03/13/2012 9:18 am Conservatives hate “free markets.” I mean that quite...
Jay Murdock
Mar 13, 20124 min read


U.S. Hate And Extremist Groups Hit Record Levels, New Report Says
Brian Levin, J. D. Director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, California State University – posted 03/08/2012 The number...
Jay Murdock
Mar 9, 20124 min read


Military’s Subsidy of Limbaugh Insults Taxpayers
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Author and Political Analyst, Posted: 03/ 7/2012 12:32 pm The Pentagon’s defiant pledge to stick with the Rush...
Jay Murdock
Mar 9, 20124 min read


We Are a Nation of Bullies
David A. Love – Executive Director, Witness to Innocence Posted: 03/ 7/2012 5:30 pm Rush Limbaugh’s years of bullying may have finally...
Jay Murdock
Mar 8, 20123 min read


The Civil Rights Movement and Public Religion
Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of Biblical Hebrew and Jewish and Christian Scripture – Posted: 03/ 5/2012 5:33 pm I’m...
Jay Murdock
Mar 5, 20123 min read


College Kills Religion Santorum Says
Nigel Barber – Biopsychologist; Blogger, Psychology Today’s ‘The Human Beast’ Posted: 03/ 4/2012 6:40 pm That is what Rick Santorum...
Jay Murdock
Mar 5, 20123 min read


Pursuing Justice for Children and the Poor Now
Marian Wright Edelman: President, Children’s Defense Fund – Posted: 03/ 2/2012 4:44 pm I begin each year with a women’s spiritual retreat...
Jay Murdock
Mar 3, 20124 min read


Supreme Court Rams Race Back on the Presidential Plate
Earl Ofari Hutchinson – Author and Political Analyst Posted: 03/ 1/2012 1:31 pm The U.S. Supreme Court almost certainly will vote before...
Jay Murdock
Mar 2, 20124 min read


Limbaugh: A National Disgrace
Joe Peyronnin – NYU Journalism Professor Posted: 03/ 1/2012 11:59 pm Rush Limbaugh is a national disgrace. He is a blowhard and a bully...
Jay Murdock
Mar 2, 20123 min read


Inequality, Poverty, and Why We’re Definitely Not Broke
I participated in a debate Thursday morning on the role of government in poverty reduction. A couple of “curious” points came up from the...
Jay Murdock
Mar 2, 20122 min read


Gordon Warren Epperly, Alaska Man, Says Obama Is Ineligible To Be President Because Of His Race
The Huffington Post | By Mollie Reilly Posted: 02/28/12 06:14 PM ET A new lawsuit filed by an Alaska man aims to remove President...
Jay Murdock
Mar 1, 20122 min read


Machiavelli Never Lied
As Miles Sees It We’ve had such an overwhelming response to our post – “Santorum’s Wrong: There Is Such a Thing as a ‘Liberal’...
Jay Murdock
Mar 1, 20125 min read


Why Mass Incarceration Really Is the New Jim Crow
Inimai Chettiar; Advocacy and Policy , ACLU Posted: 02/24/2012 5:47 pm I spent this past New Year’s Eve lying on the floor of a New...
Jay Murdock
Feb 29, 20123 min read


Why Religious Conservatives Embrace the Language of Religious War
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie: Outgoing President for Reform Judaism Posted: 02/28/2012 4:27 pm Religious conservatives are drawn to the language...
Jay Murdock
Feb 29, 20123 min read
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