Progressive Hypocrisy: Israel, China & Chas Freeman
(cross-posted at Talking Points Memo)I wanted to wait until some of the anger and violent emotion over the Freeman issue had cooled before I (very gingerly) brought this up.First -- as a basis for the...
View Article"The Pope May be Right"?-- Not So Fast!
The title (and much of the substance) of Sunday's op-ed by Harvard researcher Edward C. Green in the Washington Post is that the Pope's recent statement on AIDS and condoms is correct....
View ArticleSpecter: Republican in his Heart
A Republican is a person who is unable to make the leap from personal experience to the broader needs of others. So, Pete Domenici has been pretty good on mental health but only because of an up-close...
View ArticleSpecter at it again
from TPM -- Specter has once again pulled an "I am not a loyal Democrat!"http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...Now he's being coy about being with the Dems on procedural votes. You'd think after Tom...
View ArticleNew Health Insurance Numbers: Uglier Than They Look
The Census Bureau released health insurance numbers for 2008 today. On the surface it appears that things haven't gotten much worse, and that for children they've gotten better. On the surface.You...
View ArticleIs "No" on "No" part of the problem?
I doubt that the vast majority of people who voted against gay marriage yesterday did it by accident. They knew what they were doing and were egged on by the forces of bigotry and fear. But I wonder...
View ArticleTwo Lesbians & a Panhandler Save a Woman
This is a great story even without the trash it makes of right wing "Christian" homophobia. Last week at Union Station in Washington D.C., a woman's wheelchair apparently malfunctioned and tumbled her...
View ArticleShe died last night, but she lived in Canada
My daughter just told me that her good friend's mother died last night, between 3 and 5 am. She had been battling a brain tumor for the last year and had suddenly gotten worse. My daughter wrote me a...
View ArticleFed judge ruling leads to tears
of joy.I know there is already a diary on the ruling from a federal judge in Boston declaring the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. But I wanted to write something that is about the feelings...
View ArticleEstate taxes -- is no action the best action?
This was reported today (Reuters via Talking Points Memo). Two senators are proposing reinstating estate tax -- Blanche Lincoln & Jon Kyl. http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/...and their proposal...
View ArticleBorn in the U.S.A.
Okay, Republicans, let's repeal or modify the 14th amendment so being born in the U.S. of A. makes you a citizen if, and only if your parents are legal. Now how do we handle a baby born to one legal...
View ArticleBoy Scouts, our community, our public school
I live in a community that is one of the most liberal in the U.S. Almost 72% of my county voted for Obama in 2008. Our very liberal Representative (Van Hollen) received 74% of the vote in our...
View ArticleMy about-face on Obama's deal with the Republicans
In my next sentence, I'm going to say something I couldn't have imagined saying yesterday. I now support the Obama-Republican deal and so does my husband. Just yesterday the two of us were railing at...
View ArticleThe Other Family: Loss and Survival
A famous story in our area is the awful tale of two girls, sisters, who went missing many many years ago. They had gone to the local shopping mall (one of the early, non-enclosed malls -- like two long...
View ArticleJews in Solidarity with Palestinian Youth Rally for Democracy
My daughter is traveling to Israel and Palestine this summer. As a member of the older generation of American Jews, many of us grew up believing that Israel was not only a refuge for Jews but was also...
View ArticleD.C. Demonstration in Support of Palestinian Youth Rally, March 15
My daughter and i wrote a diary yesterday calling attention to the Palestinian youth rally on March 15: http://www.dailykos.com/...To reiterate -- this rally is independent of Hamas and Fatah -- it's...
View ArticleIsraeli cameras document.....
The videos I'm going to link to here, show both the best and the worst of Israel. If it weren't for Israeli peace activists, people who truly want what's best for both Israelis and Palestinians, these...
View ArticleNotes from An American Jew in Israel/Palestine
This is the recent blog my daughter wrote. She is staying in Ramallah, at a friend's apartment. She's been sick for the last week, but this blog let her anxious parents know that she is on the mend....
View ArticleTrying to Help a Palestinian Family Rebuild
The next installment from my daughter who is staying in Ramallah: her experience trying to help a Palestinian family rebuild. The events are from about a week ago. (I'm going to try to get her photos...
View ArticleRock Concert in Ramallah -- Notes from a Jewish-American Young Woman in...
Yesterday, soysauce had a diary about Gaza with some wonderful photos showing people living their lives in ways we can identify with. http://www.dailykos.com/... Maybe my daughter was on the same...
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