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Surviving political turmoil: The one percent commitment

March 21, 2017 James Wilson 2016 Election, Activism, Politics Leave a comment

Because the last election was so filled with lies, hate, fear, and hypocrisy, culminating in the election of an unstable, needy man who rose

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A budget based on tweets and bogus campaign blurts

March 20, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Budget One comment

Where did Donald Trump’s absurd, brutal and immoral budget proposal come from? His recently appointed Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney, has now told us: “If

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The president’s fine-tuned machine

March 19, 2017 Renee Shur Government, Trump Leave a comment

Remember Donald Trump’s assertion during his 75-minute faux–news conference that his administration was running like a fine-tuned machine? Trump’s grandstanding that day was at

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Obamacare

VIDEO: THE HUMAN COST OF Replacing Obamacare

March 18, 2017 Renee Shur ACA/Obamacare, Health, Health care Leave a comment

   “One Paragraph of Obamacare Saved this Boy’s Life,” tells the story of Timmy, a thriving, happy six-year-old who lives in Maryland with his

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OCD

Does Paul Ryan’s OCD trump empathy?

March 16, 2017 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Budget, Republican Brain, Republicans Leave a comment

Paul Ryan never seems happier than when talking about the money that can be saved by repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. It

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Videos document the human cost of Trump’s refugee ban

March 15, 2017 Renee Shur Refugees Leave a comment

How does Trump’s refugee ban affect people’s lives? Two recent videos document the real impact. They take the viewer behind the partisan policy debates,

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Why is modern political engagement modeled after school spirit?

March 15, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Politics, Sports One comment

I recently read that legendary Indiana University basketball coach, Bobby Knight, said that the best thing about that job was how great the fans

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Deleting science from EPA’s Office of Science and Technology

March 13, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Climate Change, Government, Science, Widgets: Science/Technology One comment

The EPA’s Office of Science and Technology [OST] no longer includes the word science in its mission statement. That’s a big effing deal, says

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Fred Thompson - Howard Baker

Republicans who put country over party: TBD

March 11, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, Activism, Community/Common good, Congress, Republican Brain, Republicans Leave a comment

On the evening of March 4, Saturday Night Live ran a parody movie trailer of a film about the next “stand-up Republican.” It seems

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Saving NPR, one local affiliate at a time: WAMC

March 11, 2017 Renee Shur Media, Politics Leave a comment

My local public broadcasting station, WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, just raised $1,034,896 in a one-day fund drive, and they’re hoping to start a trend. When

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  • Starship Troopers and the Degeneration of Parody
  • The Fairness Party
  • “Secular Humanists with Jewish Last Names”
  • An (Updated) Honest Preview of the 2022 Midterms
  • Rescuing Susan Collins – Make Judicial Nominees Speak the Truth
  • Doing the world a world of good

A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

Gloria Shur Bilchik’s new book, Election Insiders: Behind the scenes with the people who make your vote count. Kindle edition now available at Amazon.

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