April 2012
“If anything, women have shown in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that they are...”
– Tammy Duckworth (Iraq war vet, Congressional candidate, double amputee, former Black Hawk pilot) is her amazing self in an interview with The American Prospect. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in Santorum’s opinions on combat, considering he’s never been in combat. It’s...
Charles M. Blow: "Britain is winning the war on... →
thesoapboxschtick:
“42% of American children live in low-income homes and about a fifth live in poverty. It gets worse. The number of children living in poverty has risen 33% since 2000… And, according to a 2007 Unicef report on child poverty, the U.S. ranked last among 24 wealthy countries. This is a national disgrace.”
“In 1994, about 30% of British children were below the country’s poverty...
House Passes Ryan Budget Resolution | David Dayen →
House Republicans have passed the Paul Ryan budget resolution, a sweeping plan that slashes long-term mandatory spending, goes under the discretionary spending targets set by the debt limit deal, cuts taxes for the rich and corporations, changes Medicare to a voucher program, eliminates Pell grants for hundreds of thousands of students, and generally authorizes just about every conservative wet...
March 2012
“When people choose not to buy broccoli, they don’t make broccoli unavailable to...”
– Paul Krugman, “Broccoli and Bad Faith” (via ryking)
Set Off Your Medical Pendant, Get Shot →
amaditalks:
A 68 year old black Marine veteran was shot and killed in his own home in White Plains, NY after police responded to a “medical emergency” call when the man accidentally activated his medical assistance pendant device.
In the middle of the night, police banged on his door until he was roused from sleep, demanded entry, when he refused (because he was not ill) they broke down the...
“And in 45 years of me being on this earth, that was the very first time that I...”
– - Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. speaking to Democracy Now on Thursday. His father, Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old African-American Marine veteran, was fatally shot in November by White Plains, NY police who responded to a false alarm from his medical alert pendant. The officers broke down...
“I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.”
– Oscar Wilde (via liketheopensea)
“The blacks are also making this more of a racial issue than it should be.”
– Tamara Holder, Fox News, on the killing of Trayvon Martin | ThinkProgress
Yeah, sure lady. It’s…”the blacks” who are the ones with the race problem here…sure…
(via goodreasonnews)
“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via bookmania)
“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the...”
– Malcolm X
Relevant to Trayvon Martin.
(via dank-potion)
