Making climate chaos even more pressing is the reality that it interacts with and impacts on every aspect of modern human existence from our water supplies to our food to our health (linkages health, energy, climate change) to our economy to our energy systems.

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My rough/working political manifesto

+ Government is not simply a nightwatchman, but should provide for the "general welfare" of the American people per Article I of the Constitution.

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If nothing else, the Obama eruption in American politics is steadily revealing the stark reality behind the progressive movement - the totalitarian temptation is always there and, for more than a few, possessing the official power to compel sooner or later becomes irresistible.

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Today is the 101st anniversary of Mother's Day as we know it. Over at Beliefnet, popular religion scholar Diana Butler Bass reminds us of the progressive origins of Mother's Day, which started with a Virginia native Anna Jarvis, daughter of a Southern social activist:

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The professors, by contrast (to the people), expect to be deferred to, not to be the ones deferring. Their "intellectual arrogance" is a consequence of the assumptions of progressivism, an ism that treats progress as the fundamental reality.

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"American history consists of one long battle between the forces of reaction and the defense of wealth and power, on the one hand, and the forces of progressivism and community, on the other." That's the premise of a new book The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in  …

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With a president they view as more sympathetic to their causes, progressive religious activists are pushing the new Obama administration for aggressive action - on poverty, the environment and social justice issues - that would mark a significant shift in the faith agenda that do …

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What follows </BUSH>?

Killfile had a great idea, relating XHTML to politics. Let's expand on it. It appears the transition between the Bush and Obama administrations is going very well. Why shouldn't it? A Progressive is following a Progressive. Since so, the transition is essentially seamless.

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"A House Divided" The Future Of Abraham Lincoln's GOP: 'Conservative' Or 'Progressive'?

Abraham Lincoln began his "House Divided" speech before the 1858 Illinois Republican State Convention: "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. [1]"

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The rather profound line separating the civil aspects and concerns of marriage from the religious ones, though, seems somewhat under-articulated. People often see the two as a fused double helix rather than as the limited partnership they in fact are.

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Behold the cultural contradictions of progressivism.

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Left-liberal groups are quick to declare Barack Obama's win a broad endorsement of the "progressive" agenda, their highly inaccurate name for more taxes, more spending, more entitlements, and more regulation.

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All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office

Real change in America won't arrive on November 4 in a compact package, complete with a shiny, new president and congressional Democratic majority.

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A major fissure has clearly developed on the right, one I predict will usher in a profound diversification of the contemporary American political spectrum, perhaps even leading to a true four party system of government.

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We usually have to wait until after the Democrats emerge victorious at the polls for the Beltway finger-waggers to begin warning them not to be too ambitious, not to do too much, not to actually follow through on the proposals they presented to the voters.

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The Other N-Word

I get it. People are pissed at Ralph Nader. They blame him for "stealing" votes from Gore and consequentially Bush defeating Gore in the 2000 election.

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Not long ago, Hillary Clinton announced a $4 billion (annually) anti-crime program. Where's the money going? To put more than 100,000 more cops on the streets of America.

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E.J. Dionne levers the 40th anniversary of MLK's death to argue that the country needs to reembrace liberalism, ascendant and triumphant during the mid 60s, and reject the conservative hegemony of the last 40 years. Ed Morrisey corrects the errors in Dionne's historical record.

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You'd think that in this and every election, the Republicans would want to continue this tradition. You'd think that they'd start every election by putting themselves at the kitchen tables of middle-class families with ambitious kids.

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I'm still mulling over the massive Democratic capitulation that enabled Bush to pass into law the most sweeping violation of Americans' privacy yet--legalizing an illegal program, and making it stronger to boot.

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We were both alarmed that the middle class was disappearing. We were both tired of seeing the corruption, ethics violations, and corporate power run a muck in Washington. We both thought that the Republicans in power had squandered away our national treasury and public trust.

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Lapsarianism — the idea of a paradise lost, a fall from grace that makes each year worse than the last — is the predominant future feeling for many people.

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How the left became conservative

The left is usually associated with the label "progressive". Being progressive implies embracing change. The left today has become the side that opposes change. Think of the long lines of protesters in Europe anytime any minor bit of change has to be made.

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Progressives have to find a way to come together to sell Progressivism. Complaining about the Democratic Party, arguing about who is and who isn't a Progressive or who is and isn't "Progressive Enough" and other negative pursuits are not going to get the job done.

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