The Anti-Manichaeist

The Guardian had an article that came out over a year ago that reported on evidence from the US National Archives shows that Prescott Bush, Dubya’s grandfather, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Bush family wealth is, in part, due to […]

I wrote Stephen Carter another email with the above as a title. I guess the reference would be that I planned to continue to plea until I received justice and so I wrote to him…
I was hoping you would give me your informed opinion on my idea to depoliticize abortion and help me to […]

There is a paper written by a Christian Institutional Economist, Charley Clark, I know that calculates the cost of a Basic Income Guarantee program. I thought I’d share some of the stats.
The hypothetical plan is for 1999, using Census information.
It assumes a fixed population. Those under 18 would get 3,500 a year. Those over […]

I just found out that a member of my church is going to run for gov’r of MN. She doesn’t have a party, but has a vision for how things could be done a lot better. I’m hoping that I can share with her my Christian Pragmatic Progressive Party platform and that we […]

I found out via ads at TPM about the above organization.
mission is to wire progressive politics by cross-connecting progressive political entrepreneurs, organizations and investors to fuel a political machine that harnesses the left’s potential.
The 2004 elections underlined that the right-wing’s profound influence over the national agenda and direction of our country did not happen overnight. […]

I joined others with Sojourners to sign a petition to demand the truth about why we went to war with Iraq.
I think we’ve just begun with Libby. I hope and pray that Bush will receive an extra portion of wisdom in the days ahead and that he won’t just cleave to power at […]

Last night, I finished my post on “Good Night, and Good Luck!” relatively late and as often is the case had a hard time stopping thinking about it as I tried to fall asleep. And what came to me was that if I had been Ed Murrow, in that scene where “See it Now” […]

This is…Minnesota.
I saw “Good Night, and Good Luck.” with my grandfather tonight. As I mentioned before, it is set in 1953 and about how Ed Murrow and a group of newsmen ended Joseph McCarthy’s Anti-Communism witch-hunts. I love Ed Murrow’s line,
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always […]

The second part of John Perkins’ talk last Saturday was about Christian Community Development.
Before giving the talk, he emphasized that what was presented was something that was learned gradually over time through a shared deliberation on people’s experiences. And so while the presentation may come across as this is the way to […]

But its employees without adequate healthcare are my neighbors. You can read a good summary of the recent article in the NYTIMES about an important memo that has emerged at TPMCafe. The Memo shows that Walmart wants to contain its benefits costs and plans to get rid of “cross-subsidization” (yes, the memo actually […]