Help! Amplify a progressive voice in red-state TN
This has not been a good year for progressive causes in Tennessee. Case in point: After Nashville passed a ground-breaking city ordinance that barred its contractors from discriminating against...
View ArticleTake 2 secs to give a progressive voice a column in red-state TN
I need your help! Please help me get a column in TN's largest newspaper to promote progressive causes! Voting in the newspaper's contest to select their next columnist ends in 2 hours, and I'm just...
View ArticleThe Boycott
My reason for joining may seem strange and contradictory but be patient with me. I believe that the bannings and rate removals were fair. They may have felt unfair and disproportionate to many but I...
View ArticleHatred is not my heritage
Today I received a disgusting piece of political mail concerning a Republican candidate for state senate in Northern "Not the Real" Virginia. Sent by an organization calling itself Our Heritage USA...
View ArticleWhere Do Hate and Intolerance Lead?
I was recently told a very interesting and ultimately troubling story. It seems that liberal Christians are actually being ostracized from their churches for being Democrats. Since when did voting...
View ArticleRacism American Style: Lowes caves to Islamiphobes
A TV show portraying real Muslim-American families who are proud members of America's melting pot. Sounds like a pretty good idea, right? Showing both Muslims AND America in general that we CAN all...
View ArticleOne Jew’s Christmas
by WALTER BRASCH I am a Jew. I don’t mind receiving Christmas cards or being wished a “Merry Christmas” from friends, clerks, or even in junk mail trying to sell me something no sane person should...
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Do You Support Human Rights? This this Simple Quiz
One thing that nearly all of us in the Liberal community share in common is an ability to care about the welfare of people whom we don't even know. We find a commonality between us that is rooted in...
View Article"Year of the Bible" in PA
Establishment Clause? We don' need no stinkin' Establishment Clause. Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Legislature brought to the floor a nonbinding resolution declaring 2012 "The Year of The...
View ArticleRabid Islamophobe Scheduled to Speak at West Point. Stop him.
Retired Lt. Gen. William Boykin has been invited to speak at a prayer breakfast at the Military Academy at West Point on February 8th. He believes that Muslims in America should have no religious...
View ArticleAs long as the gun rights fanatics won’t negotiate, the killings will go on
NCCI Holdings, a company involved in workplace data, just released a new report on workplace violence. According to the U.S. Dept. of Labor, nearly 2 million American workers each year report that...
View ArticleHey Catholic Church: This Is How We Got Protestants
You know, those people who were not down with the Spanish Inquisition? The people that started Holland? The ones that bankrolled the Mayflower? Do you hear me now? The Protestants, those people that...
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The Unabashed Ignorance of Rush Limbaugh
I can’t stand the big WINDBAG Rush Limbaugh but his sycophants are even more pitiable than he is because they BELIEVE what he spouts and do not realize he is just doing it for the $$$$,which he takes...
View ArticleJew Pond - It's Personal
In light of the recent anti-Semitism diaries, I have my own story that is presently unfolding. My small town in Mont Vernon, NH has a 1/4 acre pond named Jew Pond. Although there are no signs with...
View ArticleJew Pond – The Verdict
For those of you not on the edge of your seat after reading my title, I encourage you to read my diary about renaming Jew Pond in Mont Vernon NH. Jew Pond - It's Personal I have come here to give you...
View ArticleMojo Friday - Intolerance - Edition
My apologies for being overly serious for Mojo Friday, but it's what's on my mind. Two things immediately brought them to mind. First was a comment on my FB page where I linked to Kaili Joy Gray's...
View ArticleWe have you completely surrounded--Come out with your hands up
Yea, I know this diary is going to end well. Most days when I turn on the news, though, or when I turn on the internet, that is how I feel. Of course living where I do, also adds to that feeling of...
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Are Conservatives More Racist?
What One Piece Of Art Revealed... My new painting inspired by the Trayvon Martin tragedy called "A Tale Of Two Hoodies" has created somewhat of a stir. A popular subject of blogs, it has been noted...
View ArticleBeing Intolerant of Intolerance
This shouldn't be news to anyone, but over the past few weeks, the more I watch the child-like, immature shenanigans of what we call the election year, I keep seeing intolerance rear it's ugly head....
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Congratulations, Intolerant Methodists
Democracy can really be a bitch, can't it. I refer to an article in the New York Times, Methodists Vote Not to Change Outlook on Homosexuality. (I've also consulted the umc.org website and an article...
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