Beyond Left and Right

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It seems to me that if we can screw up our courage, face the facts and choose wisely, we can have a batter life and a better death, and the American people can have better health care in the bargain.

Are we as Americans grown up enough to face reality and build policy around the facts, or will we keep pretending this is 1955 and we have plenty of time to make attractive choices?

America has wandered into a broken wilderness and we find ourselves at the lip of a precipice. If we hew to the path we're on, we will certainly tumble into it.

It's hard to avoid the impression that most progressives are more interested in complaining about the right wing, or how things are going in the country, than getting their hands dirty and slugging it out.

Sitting in for Arianna, Joan Walsh and Mary Matalin buoyantly clash about the tax 'compromise' vote, whether filibusters sabotage democracy and is Palin for real or just a reality show? They agree NYC should get over losing LeBron and Lee.

While making every reasonable effort to garner support from both parties, Obama should also be busy acknowledging reality: that the increasing polarization/extremism of the Republican Party makes his desired bi-partisanship impossible.

In this blog, I want to argue that despite running as a Republican, Dennis is essentially running on a pragmatic, progressive agenda that brings together the most salient issues across parties.

The entire premise Washington builds its Social Security fantasies on is that the vast majority of people have large savings, large portfolios, or rich kids,

All we have, posing as politics, is a furious attack on Progressivism--you can call it the New Deal if you want--and a passionate defense of same. Ideas that don't fit that game are rejected out of hand by both sides.

It's very likely that both the laissez-faire ideas of Republicans and the New Deal ideas of Democrats are obsolete remnants of the Industrial Age and headed for the scrap heap.

We live in the world of work. But whether we hold onto our jobs or not, that world is being taken from us; taken by the blind forces of over-population, science, and arithmetic.

This was not a good week for those in the media who insist on looking at every issue using the exhausted left vs. right framing. First, Barney Frank and Ron Paul took to HuffPost, making the case that substantial cuts in the bloated defense budget must be a central part of the deficit reduction debate currently raging in Washington. Then David Boies and Ted Olson, who fought it out in Bush v. Gore, discussed their joint battle to make gay marriage legal during a compelling session at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Finally -- and most surprisingly -- Ann Coulter, following the path already trod by George Will and the Cato Institute, warned that the war in Afghanistan "isn't likely to turn out well" and criticized today's GOP for making "permanent war" one of the "irreducible requirements of Republicanism." The sell-by date on "right vs. left" has definitely expired.

It is irrefutably clear to us that if we do not make substantial cuts in the projected levels of Pentagon spending, we will do substantial damage to our economy and dramatically reduce our quality of life.

This is a troubling series of changes to the Texas Curriculum. I say that not as an offended liberal -- but as someone who values learning. Textbooks in this nation must be based on fact -- not opinion.

Philip Spooner is a lifetime Republican, World War II veteran and, to everyone's surprise, a gay marriage supporter. The 86-year-old gave a heartfelt ...

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