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Defeating supply-side economics with supply-side democracy

June 8, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Corruption, Democracy, Ethics, Media, Voting/Elections 4 comments

One of the terms with which Republicans couch their conservative views is supply-side economics. It sounds innocent enough, but history since the “Reagan Revolution”

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The case for the 38-year old Supreme Court Justice

February 17, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Activism, Campaigns, Civil liberties, Congress, Courts, Democracy, Ethics, Good government, Justice, Obama, Republican Brain, Supreme Court [SCOTUS] Leave a comment

This is not complicated. Here are two reasons why it would be an excellent idea for President Obama to nominate someone approximately 38 years

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The elusive connection we have to truth

December 6, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Climate Change, Environment, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Guns, Republican Brain Leave a comment

Perhaps it’s always been this way; humankind has been more motivated by emotions than reason and the primary emotion that generates beliefs is fear.

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Why journalists engage in so many false equivalencies

October 26, 2015 Arthur Lieber Corporations, Democracy, Ethics, Ideas, Media, Republican Brain 3 comments

For some time, we have been examining why Republicans look at things so differently from Democrats. Much has been written about the Republican brain

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Joe Biden talks about courage and empathy: a unique combination

September 15, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Ethics, Good government, Republican Brain Leave a comment

Many people think that the Stephen Colbert interview with Vice-President Joe Biden on Thursday, September 10 was seminal TV. Both had suffered tragic losses

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Abortion: Focusing on the real issues, not the distractions

August 21, 2015 Arthur Lieber Civil liberties, Ethics, Gender issues, Health care, Human Rights, Justice, Reproductive rights Leave a comment

Abortion opponents often like to dwell on minutia, such as whether or not Planned Parenthood profits from making embryonic organs available for life-saving research.

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Department of Education promotes racketeering and Jim Crow in schools

April 13, 2015 Arthur Lieber Children, Education, Ethics, Federalism, Legal issues/Law One comment

There is so much that the federal government could do in education. Besides taking the obvious first step of reducing student loan rates to

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Rep. Steve King tops all others in being anti-choice

April 6, 2015 Arthur Lieber Ethics, International, Religion in Politics, Republican Brain Leave a comment

At least one Republican has taken the anti-choice stand to a new level, and it has nothing to do with reproductive rights. Rep. Steve

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NBC News: Discipline Brian Williams, but look at yourself, too.

February 13, 2015 Arthur Lieber Ethics, Media Leave a comment

More than forty years ago, Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein taught us to “follow the money.” Those words of wisdom certainly

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Why Republicans have it tougher than the rest of us

February 10, 2015 Arthur Lieber Ethics, Religion in Politics, Republicans 3 comments

The Humor Games are almost always won by the left-wing comics. Whether it’s Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Larry Wilmore, or whoever, the last laugh

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