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God Damn Wall Street!
By
Paul Raushenbush
Ok, I had to get a little Jeremiah Wright off my chest because the disgusting behavior of Wall Street while our economy crumbles has made it tough to maintain equanimity. The rip off disgrace of Bernie Madeoff, the spa adventures of government bailed-out AIG, the $100,000 office antics of Merrill Lynch’s John Thain, – these have…
A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (by Marian Wright Edelman)
By
Paul Raushenbush
Marian Wright Edelman is the Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund. The following is an excerpt from Ms. Edelman’s book: The Sea is So Wide and My Boat is So Small. This is a long post for Progressive Revival but on this day I encourage readers to take the time to read it. Printed with permission.…
The Sideshow — News and Lessons from the Republican Civil War
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Burns Strider
Republicans have a problem… they don’t know who they are. Devastated The 2006 and 2008 election cycles were devastating for the GOP. They went from the Roveian-based belief that they had basically won the political war and Democrats would be no more to more of a “what the hell happened?” In Washington today, Republicans basically…
Barack Obama and the (progressive) Religious Revival
By
Paul Raushenbush
Barack Obama’s transition team is ringing in the New Year with a series of meetings with religious groups reports Dan Gilgoff at US News. It is striking that the names that dominate the list are the very ones that some people (Rick Warren: “The mainline is sidelined”) have declared dead such as mainline Protestants, reform…
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