Category Archives: Slate Video

Slate Magazine: Jay Porter: ‘A Small Business Owners Case For Raising the Minimum Wage’

Source:Slate Magazine– a pro-minimum wage rally. Source:The New Democrat “Nine or ten dollars an hour? Twelve? Or all the way to $15? For much of the country, significant minimum wage hikes are coming—at least in the areas where they haven’t … Continue reading

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Slate: Jamelle Bouie: Jim DeMint, American Abolitionism & Constitutional Conservatives

Source:The New Democrat  Representative Michele Bachmann announced she was running for president in, I believe, August of 2011.  Her  presidential campaign lasted all of four months.  It was one of the shortest presidential campaigns in American history.  When she announced … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Dave Weigel: Sarah Palin vs. Beltway Republicans: Conservatism in America 2014

Source:The New Democrat  If Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin are the faces of Conservatism in America in 2014, then we might as well start planning its funeral and Liberals can declare victory in this ongoing ideological war of some 50 … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Helen Vera: Against Solitary Confinement: State are Finding it’s Impractical as well as Immoral

Source:The New Democrat  The current use of the process of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons is deplorable.  There are no guidelines relating the length of confinement to severity of offense.  The process is used at the discretion of onsite officials. … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Bob Garfield: Why I Love Big Government: A Valentine for Big Gov.

Source:The New Democrat  Bob Garfield in his column in Slate today was explaining what he loved about big government and laying out a lot of the things that government does and calling them big government. The problem is that not … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Tanner Colby: Affirmative Action: It’s Time For Leftists to Admit it Isn’t Working

Source:The New Democrat  As a liberal I believe in the notions of equal opportunity and justice for all. Without those two concepts liberalism simply doesn’t mean a hell of a lot and it would just be a class philosophy. Taking … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Matthew Yglesias: Work-Ethic and The Welfare State

Source:The New Democrat  This is the real debate we should be having when it comes to poverty in America. How to encourage people who are on Welfare whether they are working or not working either continue to work or go … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Tanner Colby: How The Left’s Embrace of Busing Hurt The Cause of Integration

Source:The New Democrat  As a Liberal I believe in things like equal opportunity, Equal Justice Under the Law, wrote a blog about that yesterday. Equal Protection Under Law all of these great liberal values that I believe puts me in … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: David Weigel: Brian Schweitzer Interview

Source:The New Democrat  The libertarian Reason Magazine posted the link for this Slate interview of Brian Schweitzer. Who happens to be just one of my favorite Democrats and a real Liberal Democrat. And I mention that for the simple reason … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: David Weigel- Filibuster Reform Kicks Open the Coffin & Returns From the Dead

Source:FRS FreeState I wouldn’t mind having a super majority requirement to confirm executive appointments in the U.S. Senate, if the leaderships in both parties were responsible and not blocking appointments because they are being made by a president from the … Continue reading

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