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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: Green Revolution
EPA Smog Rules Freakout is Ridiculous
First of all, let’s stop with the stupid sports metaphors. Really. If you need an analogy, smog regulations are a low card in a high stakes game, and Lisa Jackson is the queen of hearts when Obama needs spades. If … Continue reading
Why Green Is A Winning Issue
Did I mention that my video wound up on TV? As I keep saying: the progressive generation will advocate for a green energy future…and do it very well. The president needs to unleash these kids on cap & trade opposition.
Yes To Tesla
This is one badass car; and as little as I actually need a car, it can actually run off a solar roof even in Alabama. That’s all my travel made green for monthly payments as low as $1,658. First company … Continue reading
Afghanistan, Green Energy, And War
There’s a Plan B after all. Afghanistan turns out to have enormous metal deposits: So far, the biggest mineral deposits discovered are of iron and copper, and the quantities are large enough to make Afghanistan a major world producer of … Continue reading
Capitalism and Climate
Despite all the noise about climategate, it turns out that one very important and influential set of people is betting long on climate change: capitalists. From MoJo: Companies, of course, exist to make money. That’s often what makes them seem … Continue reading
Blow The Green Bubble
He’s more than a gaffe-prone distraction from the president; he’s also a change-agent. Vice President Joe Biden told a room full of Wall-Street Democrats some things they might not like to hear: And so the current moment also poses a … Continue reading
Don Blankenship Must Diet
Via ThinkProgress: Shares of Massey have been shrinking. If ever there was a CEO worth hating, it is Don Blankenship. His mines are the Ford Pinto of the industry and he hasn’t the decency to think his miners’ lives are … Continue reading
Electrical Resistance
Scientific American asks whether politics will slow the development of wind power. Apparently, wind farming in the plains states is so lucrative that Influential natural gas producers and generators in Texas are worried. They are demanding that the state’s wind … Continue reading
Green Becomes Strategic
China is betting long on green, but also disturbing strategic planners in the way Germans and French played brinksman with coal and iron once upon a time, and Russia does with gas and oil. The irony is that these green … Continue reading
Green Stimulus
This is how you convert to a green economy in a red state: TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas launched a new energy efficiency program Tuesday to make low-interest loans available to several thousand home owners and small businesses for upgrading insulation, … Continue reading
Iran Admits to Torture of Protesters
From the British Guardian: Iran’s police chief admitted yesterday that protesters who were arrested after June’s disputed presidential election had been tortured while in custody in a prison in south-west Tehran. But he denied that any of the detainees had … Continue reading
