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View from the left
http://www.viewfromtheleft.org
Mainly political, but also has touches of various other aspects.
- Added on: Dec 7th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Alexander Brock
- Listed in: Politics Society
- Tags: politics Personal Games society writing humanities
Recent Posts
Clean Coal
Surely you’ve seen the commercials for and against clean coal, and I’ve been sifting through this sooty debate (yes, even I make stupid puns), and by far the best source for that has been factcheck.org (specifically this article) which sa...
Claims thet the stimulus will hurt the economy
I got home early because my classes were cancelled again, and just heard the Jesus commercial (If you spent 1 million dollars from the day Jesus was born to today you still wouldn’t have spent as much as congress just did). In the commercial th...
States rights and national power
In my adventures through the ‘net I’ve often encountered people who say that the government is always encroaching on states rights and that the founders never intended for a strong government. The problem withthis thought is thatthat̵...
Poverty and Race
Poverty and race are intertwined more than people like to think. In the United States minorities make up a huge section of the poor and 1 in 4 blacks and hispanics are living in poverty, when the numbers for whites is only 1 in 10 (I’m white so...
Racism
After the NY Post cartoon and the Attorney General’s comments about Americans being cowards about race, race and racism have become a major topic in the political discussion of the day, just as it did when Obama’s Pastor (who was defined,...
The problems with Ideologues
Are directly connected with a lack of bipartisanship. The main one is that without cooperation and compromise, something ideologues rarely do, then we have gridlock, and things get really ugly amongst the common people. Secondly, ideologues generally...
