Growing Beyond Growth for True Democracy by J.A. Myerson - YES! Magazine - 0 views
Nature: Introduction - 0 views
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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes.
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This is the same argument that we have all been having for centuries. What is originality? Are we just reusing the same ideas as our forefathers? Honestly I think the society goes through these perpetual cycles of reuse, even as we progress. Its simply a part of human life. But perhaps that's why we need thinkers like the transcendentalists. To challenge our reliance on the ideas of the previous generation.
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He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.
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But to a sound judgment, the most abstract truth is the most practical.
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Open Left: Why we need to pass the Wall Street reform bill (long version) - 0 views
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dcjohnson Conservatives Imposing Sado-Economic Austerity On U.S. http://bit.ly/axmLWO
The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Richard Hofstadter, Harper's Magazine, Novembe... - 0 views
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...the modern right wing, as Daniel Bell has put it, feels dispossessed: America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion. The old American virtues have already been eaten away by cosmopolitans and intellectuals; the old competitive capitalism has been gradually undermined by socialistic and communistic schemers; the old national security and independence have been destroyed by treasonous plots, having as their most powerful agents not merely outsiders and foreigners as of old but major statesmen who are at the very centers of American power. Their predecessors had discovered conspiracies; the modern radical right finds conspiracy to be betrayal from on high.
Why Pharma Wants ObamaCare || Forbes.com - 0 views
Baucus' Bogus Bill is Bupkes, Bunkum, Bunk - 0 views
Why Are Americans Passive as Millions Lose Their Homes, Jobs, Families and the American... - 0 views
Why Obama needs Rahm at the top - 0 views
Daily Kos: Open Letter: Call me a BOZO, I'm for Health Reform: UPDATE 4X w/POLL - 0 views
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*I've been very critical of HCR (1+ / 0-)Obama, and the whole process and what appears that the end result will be. What would be enough for the democrats opposed to the bill to support it? Personally speaking, I recognize that it's never going to be perfect. But the sticking point is forcing people to buy a product from a private company without any effective cost control measures. That's it, anything else I can work with. So for me, I would need either the mandate taken out, strict cost regulation added, or a non-profit pulic option added. What about the rest of you? by Skellen on Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 11:59:13 AM PST[ Reply to This | Recommend ] REPLY by .@avivao: Mandate to buy private insurance? (0 / 0)Exactly. A mandate to buy from private insurers (who're already raising rates in advance of the bill's passage--a way of gaming medical loss ratios, etc.) must be counterbalanced by a substantive public plan (Medicare for All or Medicare for More would be the most expeditious way to go, I suspect). Also, the mandate will surely cause suffering "down the road" unless regulation of insurers is actually enforceable. Still, we must pass this #HCR bill, I think. I'm extremely worried about (1) passing it with a unilateral mandate; (2) not passing it because of a unilateral mandate. How did we get trapped like this? What went wrong? Sure; a lot has gone right. I don't deny it. I'm glad. But we're backed into a corner now on passing this health bill. If we don't pass it, the news is very, very bad. If we do pass it, the news is probably very,very bad (for a different constellation of reasons). I say: #PassTheDamnBill. But I'm very disturbed by the potential consequences of doing so. There are many benefits to this bill; I pray that the liabilities don't outweigh them. We'll see. by avivagabriel on Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 11:56:59 AM PST[ Parent | Reply to This ]
Glenn Greenwald: Why Elena Kagan Would Be a Dangerous Pick For the Supreme Court | Civi... - 0 views
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