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CREDO Mobile No more Mr. Nice Guy. On SNL last night, Al Gore said he's fed up with Congress' slow response to global warming.
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I was a young school boy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. My cousins were at the parade route downtown. In retrospect, the assassination seemed to be the beginning of a very dark period in American history, culminating five years later with the shooting deaths of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. Ted Sorensen'...s short piece is a must read, showing how little progress we have made in critical areas.//MichaelMehr lesen
JFK Remembered: What Kennedy Would Approve of and Be Disappointed By in the Time of Obama - The Wash
Quelle: www.thewashingtonnote.com
This is a guest note by Ted Sorensen, whose most recent book is Counseler: A Life at the Edge of History. Sorensen, former special counsel and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, is a widely published author on the presidency and foreign affairs.
CREDO Mobile Sen. Blanche Lincoln announces that she will be the 60th vote to kill a unanimous Republican filibuster, allowing there to be a debate in the Senate on health care reform (even though she opposes a public option rather vehemently). This is good news - but even harder work lies ahead.
Quelle: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
Never has a debate on a procedural vote in the Senate been so closely watched!
CREDO Mobile Happy birthday to feminist and anti-war activist Marlo Thomas who turns 72 today. She donated proceeds from her groundbreaking 1972 album "Free to Be... You and Me" to the Ms. Foundation and continues to fight today to end the war in Iraq.
Quelle: www.youtube.com
Free To Be... You And Me- Marlo Thomas' 1974 children's film based on her 1972 album. Featuring Alan Alda, Harry Belafonte, Mel Brooks, Rita Coolidge, Billy De Wolfe, Roberta Flack and more. # Rosey Grier
CREDO Mobile If you Google, “David Brooks, who has never been right about anything,” you get about 9,730,000 hits. Today, Brooks and Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Winner, both write about Tim Geithner’s performance. Who do you believe?
Quelle: www.nytimes.com
Timothy F. Geithner, like others on the White House economic team, is pragmatic and responds flexibly to situations, and that approach has paid off during the economic crisis.
CREDO Mobile Now this is a hopeful headline! The modern tea party movement, an unwitting front group for anti-Obama corporate interests, stole a proud name in American revolutionary history to serve their anti-everything movement.
Quelle: www.politico.com
The movement's internal squabblinghas some members fearful that it will disintegrate.
CREDO Mobile On this day in 1925, Robert F. Kennedy was born. He was a tireless advocate for justice and gave one of the best speeches in U.S. history on the death of Martin Luther King -- just two months before he himself would be assassinated.
Quelle: www.rfkcenter.org
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers ...
CREDO Mobile We'll spare you Sarah Palin's smiling face. (Surely you like that!) But here's a must-read from Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight.com.
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: 10 Reasons That Sarah Palin Could Win the Republican Nominatio
Quelle: www.fivethirtyeight.com
1. Enthusiasm. People tend to see electorate through a one-dimensional lens, in which a fixed number of voters are trying to decide between two or more candidates. But that's not really how politics works, especially in primaries. ...
CREDO Mobile On this day in history, President Lincoln redefined the goal of the Civil War to be the pursuit of human equality.
Quelle: www.findingdulcinea.com
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, a speech that redefined the meaning of the Civil War.
CREDO Mobile Want to know what Big Oil really thinks? Check out this ad from 1962 by a company that grew up to be Exxon.
Quelle: www.grist.org
Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers! From a sharp-eyed reader comes this ad for Humble Oil (which later merged with Standard to become, yes, Exxon). It may win the All Time Millenial Award for Maximal Irony. It’s from a 1962 edition of Life Magazine, available on Google Books (click for larger versi...
CREDO Mobile This takes courage. In Arkansas, no less.
Quelle: www.huffingtonpost.com
"I've grown up with a lot of people and I'm good friends with a lot of people who are gay and I think they should have the rights all people should, and I'm not going to swear that they do," the ten-year-old Phillips said.
CREDO Mobile We want our money back. Basically, an independent inspector general concluded that the New York Federal Reserve, led by Timothy Geithner, did not use its considerable bargaining leverage and unnecessarily sent billions of our dollars to 16 giant banks, using AIG. The truth is painful, but better that than more deception.
Quelle: news.bbc.co.uk
The New York Fed paid AIG's business partners face value for securities so they would cancel insurance-like contracts AIG had written.
CREDO Mobile In a controversial article, Bill McKibben asserts President Obama isn't doing enough to stop climate change. What do you think?
Quelle: www.grist.org
President Obama has, at least for now, punted on the hard questions around climate.
CREDO Mobile Hooray? Taxpayers are no longer going to subsidize the infamous townhouse where Senator Ensign lived during his affair, and where Bart Stupak and Tom Coburn still live.
Quelle: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com
Residents of the C Street Christian fellowship house will no longer benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house's owners to avoid paying property taxes.
CREDO Mobile Finally - Sen. Reid demands and gets a judge approved despite attempted filibuster. One of the key criticisms of the judge? He spent one month in 1979, after graduating from college, doing door to door canvassing for ACORN.
Quelle: thinkprogress.org
Overcoming a failed filibuster attempt by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the Senate voted 70-29 this evening to end debate on President Obama’s first nominee to the federal bench, clearing Judge David ...
