We all remember the tragic Trayvon Martin case, and the wider issue of America’s “Stand Your Ground” laws. There are at least two sides to every story, and the unfortunate reality of “Stand Your Ground” cases is that the shooter, all too often, is never prosecuted as the other individual is deceased and stripped of […]
Released in April 2012, Reckless: The Political Assault on the American Environment, by Bob Dean details the Tea Party’s war on the environment. For instance in 2011 the Republican led House of Representatives voted almost 200 times to undermine environmental and public health safeguards constituting the largest attack on environmental protections in America’s history. Bob […]
Forty years after the death of the father of the community-organizing model, Saul Alinsky, leading conservatives have attempted to tie the Obama administration to Alinsky’s radicalism. Most notable of these critics is Newt Gingrich who seems to have spearheaded the attack on President Obama using Saul Alinsky: The centerpiece of this campaign, I believe, is […]
TED, the Technology Entertainment and Design nonprofit behind the TED Talks, whose slogan is “ideas worth spreading” recently decided that some ideas are better left alone. In March of 2012 Nick Hanauer, millionaire tech investor and entrepreneur, gave a talk at a TED conference. In his talk, Hanauer argued that the rich aren’t responsible for […]