Entries For: April 2008
2008-04-16
Compassion for Whom?
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama crossed paths recently at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, for a "Compassion Forum." They were there to be called to task by people of faith on issues like climate change, human rights and torture, poverty, genocide in Darfur, and the AIDS crisis. Just think about that - it's a brilliant progressive strategy to reclaim the religious narrative about politics that's been obsessed with abortion and homosexuality for far too long. read more...
2008-04-09
How to actually support our troops
So we have passed the five year mark and pushed into the sixth year of our war in Iraq. It is something that many of you will agree is a horribly botched situation, for so many reasons. We have lost almost four and a half thousand US soldiers and needlessly taken the lives of close to one million Iraqis thus far. Despite the administration's relentless attempts to project positive progress along with the media's disgusting complacency in spinning the story, the situation continues to deteriorate. read more...
