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Speak To Me: David Brooks' Speech to the Delegates
My fellow Americans, it is an honor to address the Democratic National Convention at this defining moment in history. We stand at a crossroads at a pivot point, near a fork in the road on the edge of a precipice in the midst of the most consequential election since last year’s “American Idol.” One path [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2008 under America, American, God, John McCain, M&Ms, Senator, acropolis, american dream, american idol, americans, anteater, ants, barack, biden, boulder, bushmccain, candidate, candidates, coca-cola, coke, coke zero, colony of ants, colorado, crocs, democracy, democrat, democratic, democratic national convention, denver, dnc, election, elizabeth edwards, god bless america, hillary, hillary clinton, human race, joe biden, john edwards, michelle obama, middle class, natural gas, obama, party, patton's army, political, politician, politicians, politics, presidency, president, president bush, presidential, presidential candidate, presidential debate, republican, starbuck's coffee, taxi, wolf blitzer.
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Why Obama, Volume One: 10,000-year war "fine" by McCain
I think that Americans are best represented by Obama for several reasons: 1. He does not support a continuation of the foreign policy that created the War Against Afghanistan or the War Against Iraq. 2. He does not, as McCain does, state that the military should be making foreign policy decisions and suggest that it [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2008 under 100 years, Civil Rights, Iraq War, afghanistan, election, iraq, mccain, obama, presidency, president, presidential candidate, war.
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Whassup, Bitches?: Female Chauvinism's Place is in the Garbage.
This poll discussed over at Slate in the article “Man Up!” found that “Despite the recent frenzy of media attention over the issue of race in America, a new poll by CBS (PDF) suggests that gender may cause more problems for contemporary presidential contenders. Thirty-nine percent of those polled think that a woman candidate would [...]
Posted: March 20th, 2008 under Bush, Tina Fey, bitch, bitch is the new black, bush-clinton, candidate, chauvinism, clinton, equality, female, female leader, female president, feminism, feminist, feminists, garbage, gender, gender power, heterosexual, hillary, inequality, know your place, leader, leadership, man up, poll, president, presidential, race, racism, sex, sexism, sexuality, snl, trash can, united kingdom, woman, woman president, womb, wombs.
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Speaking Truth To Power: The Canary In the Coalmine (Literally)
Fight the Culture of Hate! Vincent Navarro, formerly Jesse Jackson’s senior health advisor in the ’84 and ’88 Primaries, tells it like it is over at Counterpunch: HillaryCare Failed. That’s right, folks, the experienced cynical candidate might not have an advantage over the young, hopeful candidate. The experienced candidate might have been involved in a [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under 08, 1492, Guantanamo, Ohio, Texas, United States, abduction, afghanistan, african-american, african-americans, american way, anti-white, baltimore sun, barack, barackaway, birds, black, black males, black panther party, black panthers, bomb, brunch, brutality, california, californian, canary, candidate, capitalist, caucus, change, charges, church, clinton, coalmine, colonial power, colony, corruption, crime, cub, culture, culture of fear, delegate, dementia, democrat, democratic, detainee, dictatorship, direct traffic, drug, drug use, drugs, election, enslavement, equality, exploitation, fairness, fear, federal, funding, gender, goods, government, group, health care, hillary, hillary care, hillarycare, hitler, homeland, homeland security, hope, human, human rights, imperialism, international, jesse jackson, justice, law, lean back, male, males, manipulation, men, mental health, mining industry, minor, neighborhood, neocolonial, non-violent, oakland, obama, panthers, party, police, politics, possession, power, presidency, president, primary, profit, proletariat, property, race, radical, reagan, regime, rich, rights, rockaway, scandal, security, services, sex, stalin, state, sulfur-coloured seed eater, superdelegate, surrendur, system, ten point, ten point program, terror, terror squad, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, toddler, totalitarian, totalitarianism, u.s. government, uncle sam, vibe, vincent navarro, violation, violence, war, war on drugs, welfare, white.
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There Is Not a Black America, or a White America… There's the United States of America
Here’s MC Eazeyo, who is a Friend, telling those of us who support Obama why we should be getting down to the voting booths, in addition to the fat beats by Rjd2 that back this track.
Posted: December 31st, 2007 under Black America, Rjd2, United States, White America, barack, candidate, fat beats, hip hop, obama, president, presidential, race, rap, video.
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You Can Kill a [Wo]man, but Not an Idea: Benazir Bhutto & Female Leadership
Benazir Bhutto was catapulted into public consciousness in Western media on December 27th when a suicide bomber took her life, as well as those of at least 26 others. Bhutto, a former Pakistani Prime Minister, graduate of Harvard Law School, wife, and mother of three, will be missed not just by the ordinary family members, [...]
Posted: December 30th, 2007 under Harvard, Islam, Media, New York Times, Pakistan, Western, amnesty, asif ali zardari, assassination, benazir, bhutto, bilawal bhutto zardari, candidate, corruption, death, democracy, dubai, east, economy, election, farooq leghari, female, general, general election, ghulam ishaq khan, government, law, leader, leadership, opposition, pakistani, pakistani people's party, politics, power, president, school, socialism, suicide bomber, west.
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Save the Drama For Yo' Mama: Feminism in the Classroom
So, I’m a girl. I know this may come as a shock. But don’t worry, I’ve had my cooties shots. Chances are, there are some other girls in your life. If so, you might care to hear about this article published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience by Associate Professor Maryjane Wraga of the Psychology [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2007 under 2006, Bush, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Gauss, Harvard University, Larry Summers, SAT, Wraga, academia, academic, affective, agency, aptitude, asian, baseline, clinton, cognitive, cognitive processes, comfort, control, controversy, cooties, courage, disempowerment, drama, empowerment, fMRI, feminism, feminist, feminists have better sex, feminists have more fun, freedom of movement, functional magnetic imaging, gender, gender disparity, gender power, genius, hillary, hypothesis, joke, language use, magazine, majors, mama, math, message, negative, neural structure, neuroscience, objectification, obscure parts, obstacle, passivity, peace, penetrating, performance, pessimism, positive, power, presidency, president, professor, psychology, race, rape, rape case, reasoning, science, sex, sexuality, smith college, social, sophie germain, spatial, stereotypes, study, surmounting, talent, test, threat, verbal, weight loss, white house, women in science.
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