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Civil Discourse And The Intentional Conversation

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Marymount, Kanye West, Joseph Biden, Joe Wilson, Conversation, Intentional Conversation, Serena Williams, Henry Louis Gates, Partisanship, Joseph Crowley, Political Incivility, Civility, Civil Discourse, Barack Obama, Relationships, Living News
Hoyt Hilsman

What is an Intentional Conversation? Stated simply: It is a structured conversation with no purpose other than the conversation itself.

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Alan Grayson's Candor and Honesty Irks GOP Obstructionists... Again

Howie Klein | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Alan Grayson, GOP Hissy Fits, Elijah Cummings, Blanche Lincoln, Health Care Debate, Joe Wilson, Max Baucus, Health Care, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Howie Klein

Grayson came to Congress promising to be a tribune for working Florida families. What drives Republicans mad is that he has been exactly that.

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Healthcare and 12 Million Elephants in the Room: Undocumented Immigrants

Sam Sedaei | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Immigration Reform, Joe Wilson, Illegal Immigrants, Mexico, Narcotics, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Politics News
Sam Sedaei

If we truly want to address the issue of high health care costs and lack of access, we must address the impact that illegal immigration has on the system.

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My Brother Loves Glenn Beck, But I Still Love My Brother

Suz Redfearn | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Rush Limbaugh, Cambridge Police Department, Right-Wing, Msm, Peter Fleckenstein, Fda, 9/12 Tea Party March, Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, New World Order, Acorn, Tea Baggers, Joe Wilson, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Ayers, Birther, Curtis Blackwood, Glenn Beck, Sec, Socialism, Tea Party, Czars, Liberty Group, Politics News
Suz Redfearn

My brother rolled into D.C. from Boston on a chartered bus, arriving in the dark outside a Marriott. I scanned the pack of fairly nondescript folks ...

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Politics, in Ebony and Ivory

Brian Palmer | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Jimmy Carter, Fox, News Media, President Barack Obama, Joe Wilson, Politics News
Brian Palmer

It's a commonplace that Social Security is the third rail of politics. For the first black president, however, it's clearly race.

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Reflections on Race from the Nation's Capital

Byron Williams | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Racism, Washington DC, Racism, Joe-Wilson-Racism, Medgar Evers, Joe Wilson, Politics News
Byron Williams

We have certainly witnessed an unhinged element of the country that few would conclude were not racist. But should we make the nuts emblematic of the whole?

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Bob Inglis, South Carolina Republican, Booed For Independence

McClatchy | James Rosen | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Inglis, Inglis 2010, Inglis Reelection, Bob Inglis, Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican Booed, Bob Inglis Reelection, Politics News

Rep. Bob Inglis is paying the price for independent thinking. Inglis, a Travelers Rest Republican, may have been the only GOP lawmaker in the count...

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Managing the Kanye West and Joe Wilson in Your Workplace

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 11.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Politics, Joe Wilson, Workplace, Business, Kanye West, Bully, Home News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

From Kanye West to Joe Wilson, there are all sorts of tell-tale signs that rudeness is becoming the norm in our society.

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All Over the Country, Women in Politics Make a Difference

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Richard Riley, Al Gore, Mark Sanford, Hillary Clinton, Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Joe Wilson, Politics News
Madeleine M. Kunin

This is a diverse country, and getting elected in some states is much harder than in others, but the message has to continue to be the same -- women can and must make a difference.

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The Conversation America Won't Have on Race

Irene Monroe | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: William Faulkner, Racism, Congress, You Lie, Race, Post-Racial, Barack Obama, Joe Wilson, Politics News
Irene Monroe

No matter what kind of shape-shifters or mask-wearers we are as African Americans leaders, even our post-racial leaders are finding out that the nagging issue of race is an unavoidable issue.

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Republicans and the Art of Racism

Caroline Myss | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Joe Wilson, Joe Wilson You Lie, Race, Republicans, President Obama, Politics News
Caroline Myss

Racism is the one issue President Obama can't fight. It's the perfect tool to take to the streets and channel into the repressed anger of the American public.

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Why I'm Grateful for Joe Wilson and the Fury of Racists

Keli Goff | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Racists, South Carolina, Racist, Joe Wilson, Civil Rights Movement, Barack Obama, Politics News
Keli Goff

Some people's racism has been brought to the fore because the America they thought they knew is changing to an America in which a Black man can get elected president and their very own children applaud.

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Incivility: The Root Cause Is Lack of Empathy

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Triangle of Truth, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Joe Wilson, Lisa Earle McLeod, Serena Williams, Political Incivility, Barack Obama, Living News
Lisa Earle McLeod

It would be easy to go off on a rant about the disrespectful Congressman, the angry athlete or the scene-stealing rapper, but these people are not acting in a cultural vacuum.

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Jason Linkins

Lanny Davis Wants Everyone To Be Nicer To Each Other

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Serena Williams, Video, Jimmy Carter, Kanye West, Joe Wilson, Joe Lieberman, Lanny Davis, Media News

Professional Beltway bile-sack Lanny Davis, in between shilling for Central American coup d'etats and helping Whole Foods CEO John Mackey achieve subject-verb agreement in anti-health care reform op-eds, has found the time for a new hobby: teaching Americans to be nicer to each other!

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Jason Linkins

Joe Wilson Gets His Own Action Figure

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Wilson Action Figure, Joe Wilson You Lie, Joe Wilson, Politics News

OH, SWEET. Look who got an action figure! South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, that's who! Thanks to the good people at HeroBuilder.com, if yo...

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How Race Turns up the Volume on Incivility: A Scientifically Informed Post-Mortem to a Controversy

Drew Westen | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Joe Wilson, You Lie, Political Incivility, Politics News
Drew Westen

What's been missing from our national discourse on "is it race or isn't it?" is the distinction psychologists and neuroscientists have made for over two decades between conscious and unconscious prejudice.

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From ACORN to Van Jones, the Online Rightroots Flexes Its Muscles

Matt Lewis | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology

Read More: Twitter, Van Jones, Acorn, Green Jobs, Ron Paul, Townhall.com, Hugh Hewitt, Howard Dean, Joe Wilson, Rush Limbaugh, Facebook, Barack Obama, Conservative Talk Radio, Netroots, South Carolina, Gop, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, John McCain, Technology News
Matt Lewis

Online success has more to do with passion and intensity than with technological sophistication. And in politics, the outsiders -- not the establishment -- own passion.

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Secesh 3.0: Fear Of A Black President

David A. Love | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, Birthers, Obama Stimulus, Homeland Security, McCain Palin, Secession, Confederate Flag, Secede, Obama, Southern Poverty Law Center, Joe Wilson You Lie, Strom Thurmond, Stimulus, Rep. Joe Wilson, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Rob Miller, Department of Homeland Security, Tax Day Tea Party, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Hate Groups, Stimulus Package, Joe Wilson, Birther, Economic Stimulus, Joe Wilson South Carolina, Health Care, Tea Party, Southern Strategy, Town Hall Meetings, Race, Racism, Politics News
David A. Love

When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s health care address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time th...

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Sam Stein

Rep. Wilson Plays Victim In Fund-Raising Letter For Virginia GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wilson Victim, Wilson Virginia Gop, Wilson Obama, Wilson Fundraiser, Virginia Republicans, Wilson Fundraising Letter, Joe Wilson, Politics News

Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst may have landed him in political hot water for a few weeks but the South Carolina Republican is now using his ex...

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Joe Wilson's 'You Lie!' Online Frenzy: Social Media Politicians' Top Tool

cnn.com | Eric Kuhn CNN Audience Interaction Producer | Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology

Read More: Social Media, You Lie, Joe Wilson, Social Media Politics, Twitter Politics, Joe Wilson You Lie, Rep. Joe Wilson, Online-Political-Organizing, Technology News

Barbara Dybwad, senior editor for the social media news blog Mashable.com, said the nation has reached a point where politicians need to factor social...

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Joe Wilson's Immigration Hypocrisy

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Free Trade, Immigration, Central America, Joe Wilson, Politics News
Nikolas Kozloff

If Wilson is so concerned about illegal immigration and the possibility that migrants might buy government sponsored health insurance then he should stop pushing for free trade agreements in Latin America.

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Calling the President a Liar: A Teaching Moment

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Wilson, You Lie, Joe Wilson You Lie, Politics News
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

My children, just look around you. Thoughtful and rational debate will get you nowhere. It's labels that carry the day.

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Proud to Be Dim

Will Durst | Posted 11.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Obama Speech, Obama School Speech, Joe Wilson, Comedy News
Will Durst

Conservatives might want to think twice before anointing Joe Wilson, the "You Lie" guy, as their new alpha immigration dog.

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Joe Wilson Election: Chances Damaged By Outburst

AP | BEN EVANS and MEG KINNARD | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Wilson Reelection, Joe Wilson Reelection Campaign, Rob Miller, Joe Wilson Election, You Lie, House 2010, South Carolina, Who Is Joe Wilson's Opponent, Joe Wilson, Joe Wilson Race, Joe Wilson Campaign, Politics News

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Rep. Joe Wilson may have shouted his way into the toughest election fight of his life. Just ask former Sen. George Allen of Vi...

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Frank Rich: Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice A Day

nytimes.com | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

Read More: American Racism, You Lie, Great Recession, Frank Rich Column, Joe Wilson, President Obama, 9/11, Glenn Beck, Global Financial Crisis, Frank Rich, Tea Parties, Race, Frank Rich Glenn Beck, Republican-Extremism, Republicans, Media News

Beck frequently strikes the pose of an apocalyptic prophet, even insisting that he predicted 9/11. This summer he also started warning of domestic ter...

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