Showing posts with label liberal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liberal. Show all posts
Monday, August 12, 2013

The Return of Alien vs. Predator, or, Why Liberals Lose When They Take on Corporate Power: Part II

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On August 2, I wrote, "Modern liberals use state power to check and constrain the power of capitalism, which they see as posing th...
Friday, August 2, 2013

Alien vs. Predator, or, Why Liberals Lose When They Take on Corporate Power: Part I

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All right, it's the moment you've been waiting for. I've been explaining why "liberal" is not a badge of shame (...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Look for the Liberal Label

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One of the tools we're going to need to change America is an accurate understanding of what "liberal" means. For 20 y...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

What "Means Testing" Means for Average Americans

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Usually, giving more to people who have less already is considered a progressive idea.  But according to today's Boston Globe: Romney...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

The Limits of Power

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Americans confuse freedom with a never-ending abundance of goods. As the economic power of the U.S. has declined, we have naively relied on...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Obama Living Up to Expectations (which is not saying much)

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I am getting tired of hearing how disappointed my liberal friends are with Obama. I am not disappointed, for two reasons. He is precisely ...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Further Away from Universal Health Insurance in Massachusetts

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"We don't really care whether everybody gets insurance." The Massachusetts Health Connector might as well emblazon that messag...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Feeling Ill about Health Care Debate

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Following the health care debate is enough to make you sick. Here in Massachusetts, supporters of the state's mandatory health insuranc...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

A Bad Week for Liberal Idealists

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I feel bad for my liberal friends today, especially for those people (young and old) who thought electing Barack Obama as President would m...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Reality Obama Can't Face

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I am a man of the Left, not a liberal, because liberals hold on too tight to their illusions. They think the problem with U.S. power is tha...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Where We Need to Change Obama

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I don't agree with his accusatory tone--I think most people voted for Obama with their eyes open--but Sam Smith has "listed nearly...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Obama Silent on Corporate Power

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Progressives in Somerville, as elsewhere, have invested a lot of hope in an Obama presidency. After the Bush administration's systemati...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Time for a Change--but We Must Make It Happen

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The results of last night's election are about as good as I could have wished. Obama-Biden won by a large enough margin that no amount ...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Obama, a Liberal for the 21st Century

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The 18th-century liberal (think John Locke) believed that lawlessness was the greatest evil, and government the lesser and necessary evil. F...