Notes Toward a Politics of Forgiveness.
by D. Patrick Miller on May 18, 2013
Ultimately, forgiveness means letting go of this world, a darkened, fractured glass through which we see love only dimly. As our frightened grip on all that is temporary relaxes, we will increasingly find our authentic strength in that which is timeless, boundless, inexhaustible, and omnipresent. Heaven is learned, not simply entered with religion’s passport.
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President Cruz?
by Tom Degan on May 15, 2013
Ted Cruz as the Republican party’s nominee in 2016? Oh, please, fate! Oh, please! Oh, please! Oh, please!
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Freedom for America’s Wild Horses. ~ Amy Cushing
by elephantjournal.com on May 15, 2013
Currently, over 50,000 wild horses are housed in captivity at taxpayer expense with just 32,000 remaining free on the range.
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Rainin’ On Dubya’s Parade.
by Tom Degan on May 1, 2013
“We’ve had enough Bushes.”~ Barbara Bush on the Today Show “Ain’t it the truth! Ain’t it the truth!”~ Burt Lahr, as the Cowardly Lion So, the man who is in serious competition with James Buchanan for being remembered as the worst, most insanely incompetent chief-executive in the archives of humanity finally has his own library? [...]
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Twitter Hacking Starts a Panic. ~ Dawn Meysel
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 25, 2013
Social media has the power to change the world. If you want to cause panic or stir up chaos it’s easy. Nowadays all one has to do is send a false Tweet on Twitter and Bob’s your uncle! Look at what happened yesterday with a Tweet that was posted about bombings at the White House [...]
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Taking the Lead from Down Under. ~ Sarah Rosenberg
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 20, 2013
Take a gander at how Australia and New Zealand appear to have escaped the hounds of hell, even in the face of passing gun control and gay marriage rights laws.
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Want to Save the World? Build a Local Economy!
by Martin Murphy on Apr 20, 2013
I was pondering the question: ‘If there was a panacea for the challenges we all face, what would it be?’ My research was already steering me towards the idea of localization, but when I watched the movie The Economics of Happiness produced by Helena Norberg-Hodge, I became convinced. It seems obvious to me that the [...]
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Let’s Talk Labels: What Products Are Truly Organic?
by Walk The Talk Show on Apr 17, 2013
Are these companies walking their talk? You decide.
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Illegal Foreclosures: Elizabeth Warren Delivers Knockout Punch. ~ Sarah Rosenberg
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 14, 2013
In just slightly over the time it takes a boxer to go a single round with an opponent, Elizabeth Warren delivers the knockout punch. Every. Single. Time.
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Single-Use Bagel Disturbs Man’s Calm.
by Karl Saliter on Apr 11, 2013
That is what they do, but who has the time anymore to actually do anything?
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Ten Years Later.
by Tom Degan on Apr 3, 2013
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” ~ Donald Rumsfeld Wish I’d said that. But seriously, folks…. [...]
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Competitive Yoga to Be Added to 2090 Summer Olympics Games. {April Fools’ edition} ~ Josie Huang
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 1, 2013
Competitive yoga as an Olympics sport will no longer be a stretch. From Lausanne, Switzerland: As the International Olympics Committee had recently voted to drop wrestling—the oldest competitive sports known in the world dated as far back as 3000 B.C. and part of the ancient Olympics in 708 B.C.—from the 2020 Summer Olympics Games, IOC [...]
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies.
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 28, 2013
The poorest 20 percent of developing countries only marginally benefit from energy subsidies.
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What do Elizabeth Warren and Ice-T Have in Common? ~ Sarah Rosenberg
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 28, 2013
Elizabeth Warren pierces the politico-corporate veil to reveal mortals acting without connection to or admission of their own humanity. She is the sun to a wash of political Icaruses.
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The Secret Law of Attrition. ~ Darrin Drda
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 26, 2013
It’s a secret not only because most folks don’t know about it, but also because they don’t want to know about it. Surely you’ve heard about the “law of attraction.” It has appeared in many guises since at least the middle of the 19th century, when the movement known as New Thought first swept America. Another big [...]
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Senate Votes in Favor of Dirty Tar Sands Pipeline, Senators Supporting Keystone XL Received Nearly $31 Million from Fossil Fuel Industry.
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 24, 2013
From our friends at EcoWatch. The U.S. Senate voted in support of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Friday, which would deepen our dependence on tar sands oil from Canada. The measure, introduced by Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND), signifies yet another attempt by Republicans to pressure President Obama to approve the TransCanada permit [...]
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You Have to Pee? Show Us Your Birth Certificate. ~ Amy Cushing
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 22, 2013
Members of the Arizona legislature are at it again. Instead of spending their time working on the difficult economic issues facing their constituents, they have chosen to create legislation aimed at alienating citizens rather than supporting them. Rep. John Kavanagh put forth a proposal earlier this week that would require people to use the restroom of the gender designated on their [...]
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New Pope’s Environmentalism? Try Again. ~ Lauren Acquaviva
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 22, 2013
Perhaps if the church advocated for the rights of the people of the world, rather than contributing to campaigns to limit them, the message of protecting living beings and God’s creation would ring true.
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The Boys from Steubenville.
by Amy Taylor on Mar 20, 2013
Thoughts on Steubenville and the backlash. Quite likely, justice was served. Important conversations have been prompted. And, as always, there’s plenty of blame to go around. Some blame the town. Some blame the parents. Most blame the boys. I feel compassion for the young woman, her loved ones and those who were threatened because they [...]
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CPAC Follies of 2013. ~ Tom Degan
by Tom Degan on Mar 19, 2013
“And they call us crazy!” ~ Wayne LaPierre, CPAC Convention, March 2013 Yes we do, Wayne. Yes we do. The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is finally over—it was a weekend that seemed to last a month. The most comprehensive, yearly gathering of Conservative activists has folded up the tents and have gone their separate ways. Were there lessons taken [...]
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The Day I Discovered a Monsanto Inside of Me.
by Renee Baribeau on Mar 19, 2013
Do you believe that we co-create our own reality? I do. The Hawaiian Huna tradition of Ho’oponopono, is based on the premise that everything in nature is interconnected through subtle energies, and that we can never truly separate ourselves from the whole. This idea brings an entirely new meaning to the concept of responsibility, [...]
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Stop the Cutting.
by Wendy Strgar on Mar 15, 2013
Just recently in December of 2012, after 10 years of organizing and education, a United Nations resolution to end female circumcision worldwide was adopted by consensus of more than 100 nations, including 54 from Africa.
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Jeb Bush: “My guess is that history is going to be kind to my brother.” ~ Tom Degan
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 15, 2013
Source: biography.com via University on Pinterest Here comes Jebby. Anyone who was still in doubt about John E. “Jeb” Bush’s presidential aspirations for the year 2016 had those doubts shattered last weekend during his media blitz on the Sunday morning talk programs. There he was plugging his new book, coming out strongly against a “path [...]
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Droning: Just Another Cushy Job? ~ Laurence Overmire
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 11, 2013
Another day, another dollar.
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Outsmarting Lions: One Boy’s Simple Invention. ~ Terri Tremblett
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 5, 2013
Do you think that one child can’t make a difference? This is an amazing story of just how one boy did.
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Sequestration & A Man with Foresight: Peter G. Peterson. ~ Edith Lazenby
by Edie Lazenby on Mar 4, 2013
Source: f4a.tv via My Lap Shop on Pinterest On August 4th, 2010, Peter G. Peterson was one of the 40 billionaires, along with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, who agreed to give money to the government. In 2011, he gave our government $458 million dollars; the money went to Social Security and other safety net [...]
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So the Pope’s Quitting. What Now?
by Andrew Cvercko on Mar 4, 2013
Source: google.com via Barbara on Pinterest Recently Joseph Ratzinger, the Pope of the Catholic Church, announced that he was resigning at the end of February. Ignoring the conspiracy theories that have been floating around as to why the pope is resigning for a moment, I think it’s important to examine what this might mean for [...]
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The Darkest Fairy Tale, Ever.
by Karl Saliter on Mar 1, 2013
“No!” she cried. Nobody listened.
The doctors refused to return the baby to the mommy.
The hospital became a prison.
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There’s More to Economics Than Just Money. ~ Steve McAllister
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 25, 2013
Source: Uploaded by user via Maja on Pinterest The Rise of Interdependent Economics America’s great declaration has always been about independence. It has been about celebrating the individual’s ability to make a life for himself. As a virtue, it has helped create a plethora of free thinkers that have gone way outside the box to [...]
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The “New” Barack Obama. ~ Tom Degan
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 25, 2013
There stood the president of the United States, in front of both houses of Congress and the American people, talking like an honest-to-goodness, fighting liberal. Did my eyes deceive?
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Seth MacFarlane Offends Me.
by Amy Taylor on Feb 25, 2013
Source: Uploaded by user via Sharon Dowling on Pinterest And I’m not alone. But, even if I am, I have to speak up. Otherwise, the disgust eats away at me. It was a very different Academy Awards show last night. Granted, I only watched the first third but that was enough to leave me [...]
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The GOP & the Visage of Doom! ~ Tom Degan
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 20, 2013
“Political courage is not political suicide.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger Meanwhile, back at the implosion… The fear and desperation is palpable this week, particularly in the faces of Karl Rove and Eric Cantor. No doubt about it: the Frankenstein Monster that the GOP has so gleefully cultivated in recent decades has turned on them; the people [...]
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We Are Philosophers Everyday. ~ Sarah AbdulRazak
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 20, 2013
Source: earlyworldhistory.blogspot.com via Elaine on Pinterest Our everyday thoughts are philosophical. We communicate philosophically rather than factually 90 percent of the time. Apparently, that 90 percent is just another one of my philosophical insights. Philosophy is an integral part of our daily thought processes that translate itself into interactive speech. I find it quite amusing [...]
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Freedom to Choose.
by Ella Lauser on Feb 14, 2013
“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.” ~ Simone Weil When discussing abortion, a highly charged political point as well as a big decision that deserves much space and time for reflection, I’m concerned that we aren’t aware of how a child is brought into the world and how [...]
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The 22 Men Who Voted Against The Violence Against Women Act.
by Lynn Hasselberger on Feb 12, 2013
Source: Uploaded by user via Jacqueline on Pinterest Every female Senator supported the bill (surprise). Good news: The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization passed through the Senate on Tuesday afternoon, by a vote of 78 to 22. And the 22 is an improvement over last year’s vote. The law, reauthorized twice before with almost [...]
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Somaly Mam: Brave is Beautiful. ~ Jacqueline Cohen-Stahl
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 6, 2013
Somaly Mam has dedicated her life to saving victims of human trafficking. When you meet her and listen to her speak, you genuinely understand what courage, grace and strength is all about. The Somaly Mam benefit was held on January 17th in New York City, in an elegant room at the Hudson Terrace, where donated [...]
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Suzanne & the Black Panthers. ~ Sherri Rosen
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 1, 2013
I came to the Party with that background. I taught people how to read, fill out forms (welfare, social security). I would help them write letters to their sons in Vietnam, and be able to read information concerning them. Then we started the breakfast program. It was Huey’s idea that we needed to do more things in the community.
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Colbert on Climate Change: The New Abnormal. {Video}
by Lynn Hasselberger on Jan 31, 2013
Hurricanes, wildfires, record heat? Oh my!
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Peace & Partisan Politics. ~ Sarah AbdulRazak
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 28, 2013
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Round Two: Idle No More.
by Linda Lewis on Jan 25, 2013
Source: Uploaded by user via Candace on Pinterest Wednesday, January 16, the Idle No More movement again peacefully stalled railway lines, highways, and bridges in at least six provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. These peaceful demonstrations are prompted by the First Nations frustration with Canada’s federal conservative government and [...]
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What President Obama Said about Climate Change in his Inauguration Speech.
by Lynn Hasselberger on Jan 21, 2013
This was one of my favorite moments of his speech. But…what I’d like to hear is a plan for fighting climate change. Click here to sign the “We the People” petition demanding “that our leaders act on the recommendations coming from an overwhelming majority of the scientific community to halt climate change and save the [...]
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Flu Shot: Yes or No?
by Karl Saliter on Jan 16, 2013
For me, when I’m being strapped to a guerney screaming, and needled away “for my own good”, well, it just stops being fun.
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Letter To A Vegan, From A Meat Eater.
by Karl Saliter on Jan 10, 2013
Here is a letter, emailed to me this morning. My responses are in italics.
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The Value of Limits. ~ Jacob Bornstein
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 6, 2013
Choosing our values is the essential first step to creating the life we want. As the Christmas lights come down and the blitz of sales advertisements retreat into the blur of seasons past, the cultural currents shift to an all too brief period of reflection, at least if Twitter and Facebook are to be believed. [...]
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Lisa P. Jackson: A Snapshot of the EPA during her Tenure. ~ Moms Clean Air Force
by elephantjournal.com on Dec 31, 2012
EPA Admistrator Lisa P. Jackson Recently Resigned.
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What I Won’t be Afraid of Anymore in 2013!
by Francesca Biller on Dec 31, 2012
What I Won’t be Afraid of in 2013…including Republicans & Naked Penises.
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Politicizing Tragedy: Why It’s a Good Thing. ~ Linda Pecone
by elephantjournal.com on Dec 19, 2012
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Quote of the Day: Are you a Pessimist or an Optimist?
by Lindsey Block on Dec 13, 2012
6 Winston Churchill Quotes: It does always sound a little corny to me—the whole glass half-full, half-empty notion. But truthfully, it’s said over and over again for a reason. I’ve had a glass half-empty kind of month this past month and it was really getting me down. Instead of using my stress and overwhelmed, frustrated [...]
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This is How We Forge a New Earth.
by Ben Ralston on Dec 11, 2012
What happens next is so beautiful: you are free, you are light and unburdened, your old patterns and habits change, your relationships change, you feel better about yourself, there is less fear, more love, and a greater sense of inter-connection with the world around you.
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The First Lady of the World. ~ Tom Degan
by elephantjournal.com on Dec 2, 2012
Tonight let us all tip our hats and raise a glass to the memory of Eleanor Roosevelt. “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt November 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary [...]
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