tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90154492011-09-30T00:31:57.927-04:00This blog covers the political, social, and cultural gamut. I will lean towards a faith-based critique of the right, but I will also address some trends that are causing the Democrats to lose touch with America’s heartland. My aim is to define progressive virtues—-to add yet another voice to the cacophony of the new media.Ebony Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015449.post-1100782943687747482004-11-18T07:58:00.000-05:002004-11-18T08:02:23.686-05:00

Why is the statement "I am my brother's keeper" considered liberal? Why is the idea that the rich have a responsibility to help the poor considered class warfare? Why don't the Democrats get why they lost big, when they lost the war of semantics? And here I thought we were the party of intellectuals.

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A dear friend and brother in Christ from my college days sent me an e-mail today entitled "Church Test". The title is an illusion to a Scripture that admonishes believers to "test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world" (1 John 4:1b) The following are 25 common heresies that are being propagated in many of the fastest-growing

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While reading DailyKos today, I was astounded by a fair number of racist and anti-Semitic comments made in response to this post about Colin Powell's resignation from the State department chief and Condi Rice being tapped for the role. I was extremely dismayed by some of the ignorance displayed. No, white liberals, it is not okay to use racial slurs against my brothers and sisters on the other

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It seems as if every state is a purple state. Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman of the University of Michigan have constructed excellent cartographic maps of the 2004 United States election based upon population studies: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/ It is to the advantage of the far-right media to portray this nation as utterly divided. Yet this is not 1860, and

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Focus On The Wrong Families? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20041110.shtml Finding this at right-wing propagandist site TownHall.org shocked my socks off. Cal Thomas articulates many of my issues with these "values voters". Yet I don't think he goes far enough. They aren't in danger of losing their first love, they have lost their first love. I always wondered why we had so

Ebony Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015449.post-1099972026196241172004-11-08T22:45:00.000-05:002004-11-08T22:47:06.196-05:00

Here's Chris Bowers' thoughts: http://www.mydd.com/story/2004/11/7/225210/807 While I agreed with him on some points, on others I felt he was too harsh. I'm mulling over my own list. What do you think "real conservatives" are like?

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It seems as if the Dems have come up with a customer satifaction survey: http://www.democrats.org/feedback/ This is extremely amusing to me. Here's the top ten things I'd tell them, in no particular order: 10. Ignore the media telling you that you're not the party of values. In this Orwellian age, words have whatever meaning the right-wing Information Ministers imbue them with. 9. Resist the

Ebony Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015449.post-1099795826956798622004-11-06T21:49:00.000-05:002004-11-06T21:56:13.936-05:00

No essay today, but here's two points to ponder. The first is a brilliant essay from an English fantasy writer of renown, Phil Pullman, about the power of words and the dangers of restricting discourse. The other is about the dominant English political party, left-leaning yet ultimately centrist Labour. The War on Words, Philip Pullman (Guardian Unlimited Books) http://books.guardian.co.uk/

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I am a radio talk show addict. Yesterday morning, I drove to work, listening to Bill Bennett proclaim that it is morning in America. He is right, but not for the reasons that he thinks. My students are the only bright spot that I've had this week. They will not always be young. And amongst the brightest of them, there is a fire unlike anything I've ever seen. It certainly didn't exist in my

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I am a Democrat. I am also an evangelical. The two are not mutually exclusive. Come, let us reason together. Since the age of sixteen, I have been a born-again Christian, identifying with the evangelical American church. I am socially liberal because I am a compassionate conservative. Three of my personal beliefs diverge from those of most of my friends, coworkers, and colleagues... and yet,

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