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Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy
Published on 2010-08-27 00:58:00
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Pretty much the opposite of Glenn BeckGlenn Beck's "Restoring Honor", scheduled on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the same place, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, takes place tomorrow. Part of Beck's schtick with this rally is place himself and his fellow segregationists in the role of Martin Luther King, Jr. Ben Dimiero in Martin Luther King would have been on Glenn Beck's chalkboard Media Matters 08/25/2010 explains why the co
Catfood Commission for killing Social Security
Published on 2010-08-26 21:02:00
Catfood Commission co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles: On a jihad against Social SecurityThe most consequential political event this year is likely to be, not the election or the enactment of health care reform, but the report of the President's Deficit Commission and how Congress responds to it. Liberal bloggers have appropriately labeled it the Catfood Commission, as in "let Grandma eat catfood."Jane Hamsher describes how President Obama stacked the Commission for a heavy bias in favor
The power of scripts: David Broder on the bold Maverick McCain
Published on 2010-08-26 10:50:00
This dimwitted column from David Broder shows just how impervious to reality our Pod Pundits' favorite scripts can be: John McCain, your country is calling Washington Post 08/26/2010.Broder, The Dean Of All The Pundits, is the highest high priest for the ideal of Potemkin bipartisanship. And Broder has been in love with McCain's maverick image for so long that apparently nothing can convince him that McCain isn't any kind of moderate, at least not by any meaningful definition of the word: not hi
