Editors' Blog
9/11 families endorse GZ mosque
From Peaceful Tomorrows:New York – Today, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a nationwide group founded by family members of those killed on 9/11 issued the following statement, which may be attributed to their spokesperson, Donna Marsh O’Connor:September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows strongly supports efforts to bring an Islamic Cultural Center to lower Manhattan, near the Ground Zero site.
Wall Street Journal decides Obama tax policy is a "tax revolt"
Who is this tax revolt against? Is this their way of accusing Obama and top Dems of "class treason"? Oh yes.From the Wall Street Journal:There's nothing like the prospect of an electoral rout to concentrate the incumbent mind, and so all of a sudden rank-and-file Democrats in Congress are saying maybe they shouldn't let the 2003 tax rates expire after all.
Mosques and the Politics of Make Believe
The two most profound statements about religion for me anywhere were the following and I am paraphrasing: "I am a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Christian, a Jew."
The Obama Administration and the Economic Crisis: Can the Left Go Beyond Conventional Criticism to Relevance?
I have been trying to respond recently to criticisms on the Obama administration and Obama himself from various sources that I would call the independent left among both scholars and activists on a variety of issues.
Republicans and Big Polluters hand in hand frolicking together through fields of tar balls
From SierraClub.org
Ross Douthat on "The Marriage Ideal"
The ultra-conservative Ross Douthat, an op ed columnist for The New York Times, has a piece in Monday's paper (8-9-2010 "The Marriage Ideal") which, as is usual with this ideological trend, distorts the issues involved in question of gay marriage.
Video: Getting America Back to Work
From WNY Labor Today
