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Main Street Liberal: All That And More
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The Voice of Liberalism from Main Street, not Hollywood Boulevard. Saturday, August 08, 2015. All That And More. It probably started in 1962, when an anonymous theater actor reportedly quipped. 8220;Honesty. That’s the thing in the theater today. Honesty … and just as soon as I can learn to fake that, I’ll have it made.”. In Christie's video, white letters against a black background read simply: "Telling it like it is.". Plain talk" can be merely simplistic rhetoric, though it comes out as "honesty."...
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Main Street Liberal: The "Fascist" Label
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The Voice of Liberalism from Main Street, not Hollywood Boulevard. Tuesday, August 04, 2015. Digby tried to make a point as she wrote. Failed miserably in expressing fascist sentiments, though he did quote Donald Trump's famous remarks from the billionaire's presidential announcement speech, then noting his. Desperately channeling Benito Mussolini, Frum noted. An estimated 25,000 of these undocumented immigrants serving sentences for homicide. A cumulative total of 2.89 million offenses committed by ...
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Main Street Liberal: Dirty Work
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The Voice of Liberalism from Main Street, not Hollywood Boulevard. Sunday, August 09, 2015. I don't wanna do your dirty work no more. In words written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, so sang Steely Dan ( video. Below) in 1972. But the problem is that some guys are only too happy to do the dirty work for John Ellis Bush. Glenn Thrush and Alex Isenstadt a few days in Politico Magazine wrote of John. 8220;Seriously, what’s this guy’s problem? When Megyn Kelly on Thursday evening reminded. In an interview...
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Main Street Liberal: Sanders Is Right, Again
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The Voice of Liberalism from Main Street, not Hollywood Boulevard. Sunday, August 02, 2015. Sanders Is Right, Again. The neo-liberals, or at least one neo-liberal. At Vox are at it again. Dylan Matthews. So I was disappointed, if not surprised, at the visceral horror with which Bernie Sanders reacted to the idea when interviewed by my colleague Ezra Klein. "Open borders? There are two problems with Matthews. View on this, one empirical and one not. Sanders is not. Wrong about the effects of an open-borde...
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Main Street Liberal: A Very Modest Proposal
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The Voice of Liberalism from Main Street, not Hollywood Boulevard. Monday, August 03, 2015. A Very Modest Proposal. Surely you jest, Clarissa. According to Seung Min Kim of Politico. Clarissa Martínez-De-Castro, deputy vice president at the National Council of La Raza, said her group would have to see the fine print of Feinstein’s measure before weighing in, but she urged Congress to “legislate responsibly rather than impulsively.”. She is basically. joining the Donald Trump bandwagon," says the mana...
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Main Street Liberal: The Opportunity That Was Missed
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The Voice of Liberalism from Main Street, not Hollywood Boulevard. Friday, August 07, 2015. The Opportunity That Was Missed. It was the question that begged to be asked, though I thought it would be asked only of Donald Trump. Brett Baier began the prime-time debate. Of relevant segment here) on Thursday night with. Again, we're looking for you to raise your hand now - raise your hand now if you won't make that pledge tonight. Mr Trump to be clear, you're standing on a Republican primary debate stage.
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Main Street Liberal: Reasoning Has Consequences
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The Voice of Liberalism from Main Street, not Hollywood Boulevard. Saturday, August 01, 2015. Often, things work out for the best. And so it is that progressives should hope that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the three other liberal Supreme Court Justices did not ignore the potential ramifications of signing on to the opinion written by Justice Kennedy in Obergefell v. Hodges. The decision overturning same-sex marriage bans. In a recent conversation. With a former law clerk of hers, Justice Ginsburg stated.
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Main Street Liberal: And Off-Camera, Chuck Todd Discovered War
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The Voice of Liberalism from Main Street, not Hollywood Boulevard. Monday, August 03, 2015. And Off-Camera, Chuck Todd Discovered War. Has Chuck Todd ever heard of a cell phone camera? If that sounds like a rhetorical question, it's because it is. Evidently, though, he is thoroughly unacquainted with the whole social media thing. The Meet The Press. Moderator on Sunday asked the Donald of Trump ( video. There are two indications this was a terrible question. A " crisis. Continuing the theme of having bee...
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The Post-Normal Times , Archive » Some thoughts on the valuation of ecosystems
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Putting science into context/All the news that doesn't fit. Some thoughts on the valuation of ecosystems. Posted October 31st, 2013 by Sylvia S Tognetti and filed in Interfaces of science and policy. This post is in response to some questions that were posed in a twitter chat on Oct 31, on Revaluing Ecosystems. The integrity of ecosystem functions or processes that support service provision;. The scale at which impacts or benefits have economic significance; and. Tognetti et al 2005; Aylward et al 2005).
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Main Street Liberal: Impressively, He Loves God, Family, And Faith.
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The Voice of Liberalism from Main Street, not Hollywood Boulevard. Friday, August 07, 2015. Impressively, He Loves God, Family, And Faith. A smart politician knows how to sidestep a question, turning it to his or her own advantage. Ohio governor John Kasich is a smart politician. At Tuesday night's debate. How would you - how would you explain it to a child? That was followed by applause, which everyone in America except Salon's Luke Brinker. Also of Ohio) and Dick Cheney, both right-wing politicians, ha...
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