If and when a politician or political pundit on the right brings up the old “Al Gore says he invented the Internet” can’t and shouldn’t we just ignore and disregard every thing he or she says from that point on?

If and when a politician or political pundit on the right brings up the old "Al Gore says he invented the Internet" can’t and shouldn’t we just ignore and disregard every thing he or she says from that point on?
It’s been 8 years now since since a little bit of slip of the tongue misspeak [...]

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Conservatives I Like (but don’t necessarily agree with) and Therefore Listen To

In the spirit of bipartisan cooperation and understanding I came up with this list of Conservatives voices I "like" and enjoy listening to (even though I don’t necessarily agree with them) because they present logical rather than just emotional partisan arguments. In other words listening to them my head doesn’t necessarily explode:

David Brooks
George Will
David [...]

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Some great quotes from William Greider to inspire our thinking

Some great quotes from William Greider author of The Soul of Capitalism : Opening Paths to a Moral Economy and Who Will Tell The People? : The Betrayal Of American Democracy to inspire our thinking:
“If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are [...]

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Conservative Libertarian Charley Reese writing on What is the Mission?

Conservative Libertarian Charley Reese writing on What is the Mission?

What Is the Mission? by Charley Reese June 3, 2006
President Bush teared up on Memorial Day and said we must complete the mission in Iraq to honor the 18,000 wounded and 2,400-plus dead.
Well, I have a question. What is the mission?
Is it [...]

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Bill O’Reilly on the Massacre at Malmedy and the Haditha Investigation

I’m just so angry and fed up that I had wanted to write something regarding what the demagogue Bill O’Reilly had to say regarding the Massacre at Malmedy and the Haditha Investigation in his programed debate with general Wesley Clark but there are so many others who have written about it far better than I [...]

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Is “NeoCon” now a pejorative terms in our society?

Is “NeoCon” now a pejorative terms in our society?In response to saying that the term "Liberal" has been turned into a dirty pejorative word I have heard acquaintances on the right say the Liberal-Left has done the same thing to the term NeoCon.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Neoconservatism in the United States
Neoconservatism refers to the political [...]

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In Defense of Liberalism – A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican Conservative

I’ve been thinking alot lately of how the neo-con pundits on the extreme right have taken the word “Liberal” turned it into a dirty swear word. I was then reminded of a website I visited a while called liberalslikechrist.org (yup you read that one correctly) and it had this little essay called A Day in [...]

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