Following up on some earlier thoughts about guns, I found a couple of opinion pieces in the local paper, the “Peoria Journal Star“. First, a piece on the lack of devastation wrought by Michigan passing a carry-concealed-weapons law a few years ago. I consider it mark of liberalism and the progressive movement to be “reality-based”. […]
Another wrap-up of Great Lakes regional issues and news… Great Lakes liberalism E.J. Dionne has a nice column about how Senators Clinton and Obama seem to following in the footsteps of the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone. We could all follow his example. War profiteering comes to the Great Lakes Kudos to the “Chicago Tribune”. […]
Well, maybe it’s fair to say that I’m clearing out a backlog. I’ve found a number of things in the last few days, but I haven’t had a chance to post them. I’ll get through some today, and more in the next few days. Liberal morals and story Following up on my comments about the […]
If you’re interested in the future of the progressive movement, I would urge you to check out this article from Paul Waldman over at the “American Prospect”. He analyzes the success of Barack Obama so far and finds the key in Obama’s ability craft a compelling story about why he should be the next president […]
Much of my writing so far in this blog has been broad scope – meaning national. But I hope to, over time, focus more on the Great Lakes region and its progressive values and community. Today is a good day to start. I imagine it’s mostly because of the Wisconsin primary today and the upcoming […]
A drought there of a few days, but look for more posts starting this week. In the meantime, here was a good read from this weekend’s New York Times regarding identity politics. I think it’s some good thoughts to keep in mind as the progressive movement tries to sort out what it’s identity will be […]
Check out this article from Eric Alterman over at the Nation.
I still hate to keep focusing on the conservatives, but as I’ve said before, the material just keeps coming. John McCain had to brand himself as the true conservative candidate at CPAC today, and boy, did he try. His speech reads like an extended mission statement for the conservative movement. I only bring this up […]
In a piece about the presidential primaries at Talking Points Memo, Jim Sleeper writes the following: Two great American crosscurrents — of liberal communal provision, without which conservative individuality can’t flourish, and of conservative personal responsibility, without which even the best liberal social engineering produces clients, cogs, or worse – can converge only if John […]
As I’ve mentioned at times before, there are really two reasons I decided to leave the safe harbor of “objective”, mainstream journalism and begin to actively explore and support the progressive movement. One, I was horrified at the direction the conservative movement took the nation under the Bush administration. I felt I had to stand […]
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