In case you missed it, check out my friend David Gelber’s first post on the background to the creation of the Years of Living Dangerously series.
On Obamacare, the Republican party has bet big on failure for four years. Now the results are in. And they lost. Big time.
Big ‘Duck Dynasty’ music and faith jamboree cancelled due to low ticket sales.
TPM Reader JOD chimes in with his experience with ‘the Fox effect’. I think it’s important to recognize in these stories that you don’t just stand up a new TV network and suddenly you’re changing the the political and racial attitudes of a whole generation of baby boomers and pre-boomers. There’s much more cause and effect at work. But these things can be powerful catalysts. There’s a reason why people invest in propaganda. It works. Just not in a vacuum.
Just a backup to what reader RL had to say…
I was brought up in a very multi-ethnic working class community where nearly everyone was more or less on the same socio-economic level. I ran around with white, black, Hispanic and Indian kids. We were all always in and out of each other’s houses and all of our parents got along very well. This was the 1970s.
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You’ve probably seen the deeply disturbing reports of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine telling Jews to “register” with their would-be break-away government. But there are reasons to be skeptical.
I just opened a thread at The Hive (sub req) to discuss the series of “Hard to Handle” Reader emails and personal testimonials discussing race in America. Curious to hear your thoughts, reactions, criticisms and stories.
TPM Reader JB adds to our “Hard to Handle” thread on the subject of race and reminds us of that other elephant in the room …
I’ve been following with interest the series of TPM posts on race. They touch on many points I think are correct, but so far at least are leaving out something important.
What happens when a tea party favorite — endorsed by Senate Conservatives Fund, the Club for Growth, and FreedomWorks — gets hit from the right for being a dyed-int-the-wool government bureaucrat?