Hold Fast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZpSMGaGE-g

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg: “To implicate all of Islam for the actions of a few who twisted a great religion is unfair and un-American.”
…Also, check out Tom Tomorrow’s latest toon on Park51.

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Hey, Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional in a ruling by Vaughn Walker that will likely go down as a seminal statement of human rights in American law. I haven’t read it all yet, but the parts I have are truly powerful.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPPxBrtrH1c

More brilliant stuff from Sam Seder, this time on the attacks against Muslims related to a community center in lower Manhattan.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NInft_D7i2U

A little while back I posted a video of Sam Seder explaining why comparisons between the US and Greece economically was BS. Seder’s regular video postings are worth a watch.

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The United Nations could be a great force for human rights in the world. But I find it hard to believe it will reach any meaningful goal if it continues to avoid actually appointing people who have miserable records on human rights to the UN’s high commission on human rights. Ban Ki-Moon has appointed Croatian […]

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Oklahoma style.
I’ve never been taken by the right’s attacks on “big government.” Most of it has always struck me as a handy catch-all for programs and policies that they just don’t like, while very few have actually any impact on the way these people will lead their lives. The EPA regulating pollution-causing industrial process is […]

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The New York Times editorial board has a truly righteous condemnation of Uganda and the American Christian Evangelical preachers who are leading the charge to pass a bill outlawing homosexuality in Uganda. There is plenty that is being written already about Uganda’s odious bill, which if passed would punish homosexuality with death. But what is […]

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Leading Chinese political dissident Liu Xiaobo was sentenced by the Chinese government to 11 years in jail for “inciting subversion of state power”; additionally Liu is banned from speaking or writing about politics at all for two years. Liu is one of China’s most high profile advocates of free speech and democracy. He was on […]

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Dear Jim Wallis,
The Stupak Amendment does not achieve “neutrality” by the government when it comes to funding abortion coverage. It makes it impossible for a woman to buy insurance that covers abortions, which are, by the way, legal procedures in America. By creating a two-tiered health care system where wealthy women can have abortion insurance […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlH4iXB2Pn4

Walter Lara is a 23 year-old honor student facing deportation on July 6, 2009. Walters family immigrated from Argentina when he was three years old. He has only known life as an American, and proudly declares that the United States is my home.
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson wrote the Department of Homeland Security on Walter’s behalf, […]

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