The Draft

I am probably more liberal and more progressive than most of the visitors to Liberty Street.  But, I do not march, lock-step, with those in Washington or the blogosphere who nominally set the agenda for what is considered accepted liberal thinking. Having said that, I want to address the subject of how we populate our [...]

From the Southern Illinois University student newspaper, The Daily Egyptian Katie Lenza, of Carbondale, holds a sign Wednesday at the City Pavilion in Carbondale to recognize the death of the 1000th U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan. While the death toll marked a grim milestone in U.S. soldier casualties, the deaths of more than 50 Afghan [...]

From Senator Brown

I received this from Senator Sherrod Brown: Chief: Thank you for sharing your concerns regarding health reform. I understand your frustrations with partisanship and Congress in general. When it comes to health care, the cost of inaction is simply too high. More than 390 Ohioans lose their health insurance every day. Small businesses and the [...]

Prof. Gilbert

Prof Dave Gilbert  here and here at Southern Illinois University (my old home away from home) has told ABC New’s Brian Ross Because the computers won’t record an error code in this situation, Gilbert told ABC, “they can’t activate the ‘fail safe’ system designed to shut down the power and put the car in the [...]

Jobs

Here is a 4-part story in the NY Times that seems to encapsulate the last fifteen to twenty years, say starting with welfare “reform” that began around 1995 and continuing through the passage of NAFTA.  All of these events were the product of a Republican controlled Congress and a Dem controlled White House. The lies [...]

A Race To Where ? ?

To the bottom, I say, to the bottom. Now comes a state Senator from Utah that wants to eliminate the senior year of high school as a way to help close a $700 million budget gap.  It looks as if Utah wants to beat Mississippi as the worst state in the union when it comes [...]

This Is The Senator

that progressives have to organize against and defeat.  Senator Ben Nelson (R.I.A.A) (Republican In All Actions) is quoted here.  His quote that I question is this: This is of great concern, considering that the Board’s main responsibility is to resolve labor disputes with an even and impartial hand. From the National Relations Labor Board, and [...]

How We Got Here

During the 45 years following the Civil War (1865 – 1910) there were a series of disputes or altercations between the owners/management of businesses and the workers employed by those owners.  You must recall that people such as Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller were hands on owners.  Corporations had not evolved to be what [...]

Here Is A

Post deserving of much wider circulation by P Z Myers.  I will put up a copy of the whole post here but you really should do yourself a favor and visit his site. I’ve often noticed a tendency for some people to host a whole gnarly syndrome of denialist symptoms: some people are creationists+HIV denialists+global [...]

We’ve Come To This

It says a lot about us as a country, as a people and as a society when we see an ad like this.  I thought we were a humane people, a caring people, a Christian people who looks out for our neighbors, if not literally, then at least metaphorically.  RawStory has this to say 45-year-old [...]