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Confessions of a Progressive Republican
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As of today, obtaining a job at Hooters deserves more kudos and respect than receiving the Nobel Peace Price
First he won’t meet with a former Nobel Prize winner (the Dalai Lama), and then he gets one?!?!?
Can some one out there give me one reasonable and rational reason that our President should receive this award (I almost said honor, but in my mind it is no longer an honor)?
Our new President is a spineless jellyfish.
1) He won’t meet with the Dalai Lama:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/we…hell-no–dalai
When Bush gave the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal of Freedom
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1017/dalai.html
2) He backed off his pledge to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tu…after-tomorrow
3) He hasn’t pushed through any major legislation (which in my mind is a good thing) when his party has control of both houses [...]
Sometimes the GOP is its own worst enemy.
Last weekend was the semi-annual California Republican Party convention. There was some activity at the convention that showed how politically incompetent some of our leadership is. First, there was a proposed by law amendment to the state party bylaws that would prevent independents from voting in the Republican primary. I can’t imagine a political strategy [...]
The Denial Continues: The GOP and Abortion.
It is said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Republicans keep running pro-life candidates state wide in California, losing every time, and run them again expecting a different result. Right now, after the 2008 debacle, Republicans are doing all this analysis and soul searching to [...]
Avoiding the Issue
I wrote the following editorial from the San Francisco Chronicle in response to an article written by George Neumayr in San Francisco Faith.
Avoiding the Issue
Is abortion aborting hope for GOP in California?
Denial is a scary human trait. Human beings can rationalize almost anything to deny reality.
The social-conservative wing of the California Republican Party is going [...]
My views on a political spectrum
The Political Spectrum Quiz
According to this quiz I am right social libertarian. I am also a neo-con and somewhat culturally liberal.
scores (from 0 to 10):
Economic issues:+7.02 right
Social issues:+5.43 libertarian
Foreign policy:+5.15 neo-con
Cultural identification:+3.35 liberal
Capitalism: its the worst system save the rest
And the ignorant keep pushing their agenda…
Fundamentalists on the attack Nationwide-are now going after birth control & in-vitro fertilization. Your action is needed.
This past weekend, social extremists from all 50 states held a conference in Las Vegas to strategize and raise resources to promote the deceptively named “personhood” agenda. They already have well organized efforts in 20 states and have started [...]
Obama Rewrites the Cold War
Yesterday a friend of mine from College’s OpEd piece was published in the Wall Street Journal. I have posted it below because I think it is very good.
Obama Rewrites the Cold War
The President has a duty to stand up to the lies of our enemies.
By LIZ CHENEY
There are two different versions of the story of [...]
