Conservatives Are Blind, Deaf and Dumb to Class Warfare

Are right-wingers really claiming that the U.S. has never been riven by class resentment? Get out your history books.

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An Open Letter to Limbaugh, Hannity, and Michelle Malkin

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich writes an open letter to Limbaugh, Hannity, and Malkin, responding to how they have been "manifestly distorting my words and pulling them out of context."

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From Media Matters regarding this incident

Summary: Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity have falsely asserted or suggested that Robert Reich, speaking at a congressional forum, proposed that jobs created by the economic stimulus package should exclude white males. In fact, Reich has repeatedly stated that he favors a stimulus plan that "includ[es] women and minorities, and the long-term unemployed" in addition to skilled professionals and white male construction workers, not one that is solely limited to them.

Are Obama Advisors in Tune w/ Neocons Who Want to Attack Iran?

By Robert Dreyfuss, Tomdispatch.com - Think an attack is unlikely now? Ask key Obama cabinet figures why they're still palling around with neocon hardliners on Iran.
A familiar coalition of hawks, hardliners, and neoconservatives expects Barack Obama's proposed talks with Iran to fail -- and they're already proposing an escalating set of measures instead. Some are meant to occur alongside any future talks. These include steps to enhance coordination with Israel, tougher sanctions against Iran, and a region-wide military buildup of U.S. strike forces, including the prepositioning of military supplies within striking distance of that country.

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Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive?

I'm so glad Michael Lind wrote this. I feel exactly the same way. Everyone was walking around hating on me for being a "bleeding heart liberal". My response to their ignorance and stupidity was typically a shrug of the shoulders, *sigh*, and then I would respond with something like, "I don't understand what is wrong with caring about people!"
Lately (since Nov.4th) several of my middle of the road friends have started proclaiming their new found liberalness. I just sit back and smile. I love it.

"Come out of the closet, liberals. Stop using the fashionable euphemism "progressive" and relaunch the old, tarnished L-word."
By Michael Lind @ Salon.com - Nov. 21, 2008

If the conservative era is over, can liberals come out of their defensive crouch and call themselves liberals again, instead of progressives?
In the last two decades, Democratic politicians, including Barack Obama, have abandoned the term "liberal" for "progressive." The theory was that Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush -- and Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Pat Buchanan -- had succeeded in equating "liberal" in the public mind with weakness on defense, softness on crime, and "redistribution" of Joe the Plumber's hard-earned money to the collective bogey evoked by a former Texas rock band's clever name: Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Dope.

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'The religious right is killing the Republican party'...

Conservative writer Kathleen Parker says the religious right is killing the Republican party.

A real tour de force here. You may recall that Parker was one of the first, and only, conservatives to come out an admit that Sarah Palin was an embarrassment. Here she takes on quite possible the GOP's biggest sacred cow, the religious right.

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