Newark, New Jersey, mayor Cory Booker told reporters in January why it is inappropriate to put civil rights issues before the electorate in a popular referendum.
“People like Rick Santorum and others underestimate the real cultural shift that has taken place here,” Robinson says.
You have to wonder how the appropriation of such an in-your-face hard line on religion and overtly Christian imagery will play outside the Midwest.
Could the overwhelming negative reaction to Perry’s anti-gay rhetoric mark an end to its use as a political tactic?
“The issues raised by the Occupy movement are important to be discussing in society, and so I’m happy to offer our cathedral to provide hospitality and a venue so those conversations can continue,” Dean Jep Streit said.
“If we allow the government to be responsible for these most intimate decisions and issues, then we people of faith are giving away the opportunity to decide what may be the only merciful option in the sea of bad options.”
Roland S. Martin writes for CNN that poverty is being ignored in the GOP primaries.
The question of job creation is the early hot topic in qualifying Rick Perry’s run for the presidency. Statistics of Texas job growth under Perry’s
One oft-heard sound bite during the debates asked, “Can you or the government do a better job of spending your money?” The speaker left the question unanswered, presuming that everybody agrees she/he can spend her/his money better than the government. I vehemently disagree. The federal government spends my tax dollars much better than I could.
I find it fun to think of our members of Congress, and especially in the House of Representatives, like hummingbirds. They are, as a class, creatures focused intensely on a short season – from one election to the next. And all too many seem to have staked out “territories” in the “marketplace of ideas,” territories that they defend as if there were no tomorrow, and not enough of today to go around.