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Partisan Politics

Three Moral Issues of Health Care

Jim Wallis | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.

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Reality Check on Specter and PA Voters

David Epstein | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pennsylvania Primary, Arlen Spector, Pennsylvania, Partisanship, Republican Party, Partisan Politics, Politics News
David Epstein

Just a quick word on Specter's dropping out of the Republican party to avoid a primary challenge that he might well lose. The Republicans have been pl...

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Obama's Dilemma -- Torture, Accountability and Partisanship

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

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Lincoln Mitchell

The treatment of prisoners during the Bush years is a stain on the moral standing of the US which the rest of the world will not easily forget.

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"My Way Or The Highway" -- Nancy Pelosi, the George W. Bush of the Democratic Party

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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Raymond J. Learsy

Certainly their political and social agendas are at other ends of the political spectrum, and yet their modus operandi and their damage to the civil conduct of governance are uncannily similar.

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Just When You Think You Can't Be Shocked By GOP Hypocrisy

Mark Nickolas | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

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Mark Nickolas

The same political Neanderthals that helped execute their disastrous strategy of the last two election cycles are still firmly in control of House Republicans.

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Train's Leaving the Station, Ignore "Big Fat Idiot"

Denis Campbell | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics

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Denis Campbell

It was a message not directly spoken but heard by all... yesterday President Obama met privately with House and Senate Republicans all without aids in...

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Civility Makes Strange Bedfellows

Lanny Davis | Posted 01.22.2009 | Living

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Lanny Davis

The Civility Project is a call to everyone to act with graciousness, kindness, common decency and respect toward all people, and particularly those with whom we disagree.

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Journalists Spin for Republicans on the New "60-Vote" Senate Regime

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

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Joseph A. Palermo

The "60 vote" threshold is an artificial obstructionist creation of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and the Senate Republicans.

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"Support I Have Yet to Earn": Obama's Victory Speech

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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Rick Horowitz

Barack Obama was in the No-Gloat Zone. For his very first speech as president-elect... Obama crafted a message with much of the scope and power of an inaugural address.

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The Triangle of Truth: Just Because I'm Right Doesn't Mean You're Wrong

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 09.02.2008 | Living

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Lisa Earle McLeod

It's another political season, and the spin doctors are priming the pump. The name of the game is division. Splitting complex issues into polar opposi...

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Jason Linkins

Congressmen Learn To Use Twitter, Break New Ground In The Field Of Bipartisan Bickering, Hurting America

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

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Twitter, the revolutionary web tool that I frequently use to let friends and colleagues know precisely where I will be getting soused on any given nig...

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Refight the Nineties?

Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Barney Frank

When Senator Obama dismisses our efforts to fight the right wing in the 90s, it suggests to me that he underestimates the difficulty of the job. The battles we waged in the 90s remain essential to our vision today.

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War Criminals and Liberals: How the Right Stole the Right to Moral Language

Charles H. Green | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

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Charles H. Green

Democrats and liberals do not lack moral issues, but they have ceded the use of moral language to those who choose to apply it mainly to abortion, flag-wearing, gun ownership and "creationism."

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Do Partisan Politics Matter Anymore?

Joe Bodell | Posted 10.02.2007 | Politics

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Joe Bodell

Press releases, news cycles, messaging, framing, platforms, fundraising totals, horseraces, and party lines. Does any of it matter anymore? There wa...

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