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Apr
10
“Zakaria: Incarceration nation”
Zakaria: Incarceration nation – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs
Mar
28
Texas, Feds Face Off Over Planned Parenthood- NPR
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Why is there this crusade against women’s health?
“Texas has among the highest rates of uninsured women, unwanted pregnancies and cervical cancer in the nation.”
Feb
26
“Insensitivity can cover a range of sins, from the minor (being unhelpful) to the more serious—say, treating others like they are less than human. Further studies by Vohs and her colleagues have shown that prompting people to think about money—a technique known as “priming”—makes them less likeable and friendly, and more likely to agree with statements that support an unjust, social-Darwinist status quo (for example, “Some groups of people are simply inferior to others”). In a particularly disturbing part of one study, the team primed people with money, then gauged their empathy by eliciting reactions to a theoretical scenario involving a belligerent homeless person. The researchers offered the subjects a chance to agree with statements that dehumanized others (“Some people deserve to be treated like animals”). The money-primed group was more likely to agree.”
Why it matters that our politicians are rich - Ideas - The Boston Globe (via sociolab)
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Feb
25
Dear Mr. Santorum,
One must remember that there are multiple faiths and beliefs.
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Oct
4
“It’s not the arrests that convinced me that “Occupy Wall Street” was worth covering seriously. Nor was it their press strategy, which largely consisted of tweeting journalists to cover a small protest that couldn’t say what, exactly, it hoped to achieve. It was a Tumblr called, “We Are The 99 Percent,” and all it’s doing is posting grainy pictures of people holding handwritten signs telling their stories, one after the other…These are not rants against the system. They’re not anarchist manifestos. They’re not calls for a revolution. They’re small stories of people who played by the rules, did what they were told, and now have nothing to show for it. Or, worse, they have tens of thousands in debt to show for it.”
Ezra Klein, Who are the 99 percent? “We Are The 99 Percent” Tumblr here. (via halfcentonline)
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Oct
3
“However, if calling for an end to millionaires having lower tax rates than their secretaries is class warfare, Obama is only the latest class warrior to occupy the Oval Office. In a June 6, 1985 speech at Northside High School in Atlanta, Georgia, then President Ronald Reagan explained that tax loopholes allowing a millionaire to pay lower taxes that a bus driver were ‘crazy,’ because they allowed the ‘truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share.’”
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