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Friday Talking Points [38] -- Whiners And Cheeseheads

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Welcome back to Friday Talking Points, after a one-week hiatus! While plenty has happened in the past two weeks which bears close and careful analysis...

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Friday Talking Points [36] -- End The Media's Pro-McCain Bias! Now!!

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

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Chris Weigant

McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.

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Robert F. Kennedy: What if He Had Lived? -- A Golden Age That Never Was

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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Blake Fleetwood

Kennedy's death came when the world was on the cusp of transformation -- between authoritarian societies and social and political justice. Much of that change was stalled in the US for decades to come.

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No Sense in Staying, Hillary

Melissa Hapke | Posted 05.24.2008 | Home

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We've already lost too many great leaders who were trying to change the status quo. After Hillary's recent crass comments, her career had better be over.

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Obama and Wisdom and Clinton

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

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Norman MacAfee

I have been meaning to write about whom I support in the Democratic primary. In January I backed all three main candidates. Basically, it was a case o...

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August 28th -- A Good Date For Historic Speeches

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

August 28th will be the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Unless Hillary Clinton soon acquires the ability to perform miracles, the nominee giving the acceptance speech is going to be Barack Obama.

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Friday Talking Points [28] -- It's Debatable...

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The twenty-first debate of the Democratic presidential nomination race happened this week. Much fulminating in the blogosphere immediately followed. ...

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Obama Roommate, Like So Many Others, Loses Bid To Become Obama Delegate

Reny Monk | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home

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Reny Monk

A man got up and said his name was Paul Carpenter, that he was Barack's college roommate decades ago. "Barack was always a nice guy." Carpenter didn't get elected as a delegate either.

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Debate Questions I'd (Still) Like To Ask

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.

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The Column of Lasting Insignificance

John Wilcock | Posted 04.11.2008 | Media

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John Wilcock

Who has inherited the dream, asked Ebony magazine reporting on the battle between Martin Luther King's heirs for control of the organization that bears his name.

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40 Years of Progress and The Work That Remains

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics

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Rev. Jesse Jackson

In the 40 years since the death of Dr. King, much has been accomplished in moving toward his hopes and dreams for our nation and its people. But the realization of Dr. King's goal is ongoing, and we have unfinished business.

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Arianna on Larry King Live Discussing McCain's Martin Luther King Speech and Presidential Running Mates

Huff TV | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics

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L.A. Keeps MLK's (Green) Dream Alive and Growing

Andy Lipkis | Posted 04.04.2008 | Living

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Andy Lipkis

Eighteen years ago a multi-racial cadre of hundreds of volunteers joined together and in a single day planted 400 Canary Island Pines along seven miles of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

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Talking In Memphis (And Indiana): NBC'S Williams Speaks To All Three Candidates About Race And The Legacy Of MLK

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media

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NBC Nightly News was live tonight from Memphis, Tennessee, starting off with anchor Brian Williams standing before the Lorraine Motel where Martin Lut...

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Honoring King is Not Enough

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Marian Wright Edelman

Too many of us would rather celebrate than follow Dr. King. We would rather build a monument or name a street or school after him than build the new nation and world he called for.

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The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Charlie Rose | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Charlie Rose

2008-04-04-mlkjrrosepullnew.jpgTo commemorate Dr. King's legacy and to take a deeper look at race in America I spoke with Tom Brokaw, John Hope Franklin, James Clyburn and Dr. Beverly Tatum.

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Forty Years Gone: MLK's Dream Today Would Be Colored 'Green'

Van Jones | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Van Jones

Dr. King worked for equal protection and equal opportunity. We, too, must adopt that agenda, but ours is an age of both social crisis and ecological peril.

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40 Years after MLK's Death: DOJ's War on Black Voters

Art Levine | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Art Levine

What was once primarily a series of tactics stretching back from the evil days of the poll tax in the 1960s to "caging" and photo ID today, has become official Justice Department policy.

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Remembering Dr. King's Legacy on Poverty

Rep. Barbara Lee | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Barbara Lee

Addressing poverty should be one of our first priorities, not the last. And one of the first steps we should take is to end our generation's version of the Vietnam War, our occupation of Iraq.

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Just Forty Years Ago

Frank Mankiewicz | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Frank Mankiewicz

I was Robert Kennedy's press secretary, and I had received maybe 10 calls from various media, reporting accusations from angry Catholic phone callers complaining the senator had "taken communion" in a Protestant church.

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The New Assassins Don't Use Guns

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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RJ Eskow

A new form of political murder has taken its place -- character assassination. Over the last two decades, the Right has learned how to destroy its enemies without leaving a body.

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April 4, 1968

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

Bobby Kennedy's brief remarks the night of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination would be later described as a small masterpiece of American public rhetoric made all the more poignant by his own assassination just eight weeks later.

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40 Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced

Jeff Cohen | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Jeff Cohen

In 1967 and '68, mainstream media saw Rev. Martin Luther King a bit like they now see Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

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Coincidence of Martin Luther King and Imus Anniversaries Brings Surprisingly Bitter Thoughts About Media

Eric Deggans | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Eric Deggans

The continuing battle over issues like the words of Rev. Jeremiah Wright suggests to me that our soundbite-focused media culture isn't well suited to the serious, complex debate we need to have on race in America.

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King: "I Can't Follow the Old Eye-For-an-Eye Philosophy"

Paul Helmke | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Paul Helmke

If Dr. King is looking down on us today, I can imagine him seeing 12,352 gun murders a year in the U.S. -- nearly 34 every day -- and telling us that "the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy leaves everyone blind."

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