In my division at DU of over 70 professors, I can count the number of tenure-track faculty of color on one hand. In DU's service and maintenance position ranks, the demographics are reversed.
Mainstream media sits off at the sideline, discussing the birther movement with its back-to-Africa chants as if there are legitimate concerns here that have nothing to do with racism.
In ten months under Obama, America's image in the world is decidedly better than it was under the previous president.
This weekend is the perfect time for Obama to announce he's repealing "don't ask, don't tell" and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. But of course that's not going to happen.
The path of the Right leads to a place where there is nothing left to conserve. This particular dilemma of the American Right provides an angle of insight into the challenge that we face in Afghanistan.
Once upon a time, Republicans just loved America. Now, we get conservatives in the streets protesting, turning to the TV cameras in tears, asking what has happened to the America they knew.
Perhaps it's the rallies or the fundraising or the demonstrably false attacks that have kept Obama from appearing on Fox. Regardless, the right's gravy train rolls on undeterred, facts be damned.
The stimulus' oft-cited $787 billion figure includes nearly $300 billion in tax cuts, meaning that it represents a split between conservative and interventionist economic philosophy.
Very few of us have made any attempt to really reach out to the teabaggers on the issues that we share with them. We could lock arms with them and form a powerful alliance; but instead we attack each other.
Avowed liberals consider themselves to be loyal to the truth while die-hard conservatives seem only to be loyal. Somewhere in the middle lies the perfect American.
I've had enough. As far as I'm concerned, Tea Bag Nation ends today -- at noon to be precise. The days of the majority of Americans being ignored and played for chumps are over.
Being progressives and promoting a positive agenda of Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Joyful Justice doesn't mean being wimpy.
Dear Diary: Today I threw an empty soda bottle into a trashcan, and a rat jumped out at my face.
Jon Pincus joins us to talk essential, nuts-and-bolts issues: Will Congress reauthorize certain parts of the Patriot Act? We also talk Roman Polanski's arrest and the immediate "rape apology" by half of Hollywood.
My brother rolled into D.C. from Boston on a chartered bus, arriving in the dark outside a Marriott. I scanned the pack of fairly nondescript folks ...
Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?
Color discrimination is undeniably widespread in Latin America. How has this caste system gone on for so long without acknowledgment from the international media or the US government?
The founder of the group that launched and organized the tea party movement across the country announced Friday what he calls a movement-minded news portal and an answer to the Huffington Post.
Shame these outraged citizens weren't taking it to the streets during the Iraq War. We could have used their righteous indignation when Rumsfeld threw millions of Saddam's money at militants.
Every time I see those handmade signs at the Tea Parties displaying anti-Obama phrases filled with hate, fear and misspelled words held by flocks of pallid agitators my stress level reaches a new high.
The documentary For Liberty beautifully shows us what Markos Mousitlas called the only true people-powered campaign in 2008: Ron Paul's campaign.
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The Republican party is going to split into two parties. One will be the party of Powell/Bush Sr/Huckabee conservative but rational and respectful the other will be Beck/Limbaugh/Palin/Cheney/Bithers/Tea Partiers red meat throwing not reality or solution based with negative over the top rhetoric. The adults of the party didn't stand up in time now you have Lindsey Graham, Frist, Bob Dole and the others trying to reign in the loonies but I think it is too little too late.
Let the teabaggers and republicans fight amongst one another. They apparently didn't make the impact they were hoping for against president Obama and now they are turning on one another. Karma.
I think the tea party will split over support for Ron Paul
The GOP is reaping what they have sown. I read the report prepared by James Carville's group on the far right and what amazes me is how befuddled these people are. For eight years, Reagan played them for suckers and they revere him as the epitome of the true conservative. Goldwater was a real conservative. Reagan was conservative but he was far more pragmatic then the far right is willing to acknowledge and he didn't shrink government but expanded it. If I have my statistics correct, Clinton did more to reduce the size of government than Reagan yet Clinton is the bad guy. I think this points to just how myopic the view of far right is and how prone they are to believe what they are told to believe. The GOP loved it when these wackos lined up behind the party but even ignorant people eventually come to understand they have been played and the response has been to blame the party for the failure of the conservative platform rather than realize that it was a statement of principles that ultimately did not conform to what most Americans wish from their government.
Nawww!
(rolls eyes)
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