Category Archives: The New Democrat

Dame Elizabeth Taylor: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Starring Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with the great Taylor/Burton combo is supposed to be a drama but  I always laugh throughout this movie, which I’ve seen now four or five times and saw again over the weekend. I’ve been thinking … Continue reading →

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Charlie Rose: 1987 Interview of Charlie Manson

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat “One of the good interviews of Manson, although shortly before this Manson was apparently in solitary for an extended period and his frustration is easily seen throughout the interview.” From Fat Hawaiian Man I can feel a … Continue reading →

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Jack London: ABC News 20/20 Diane Sawyer 1994 Special on The Manson Family

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  The Manson Crime Family, which is what I call it instead of a cult, because of all the crimes they committed and people they either seriously hurt or killed, is one of the worst crime families of … Continue reading →

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PBS: NewsHour: Shields & Brooks on the Debt Limit Drama & Health Care Reform

Posted on February 16, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  The whole debt limit debate in Congress was really about the 2014 mid-term congressional elections for House and Senate Republicans who want to add to their House majority and win back the Senate and not see another … Continue reading →

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Paul Krugman: ‘Inequality, Dignity & Freedom’

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:New York Times– left-wing columnist Paul Krugman. Source:The New Democrat “Now that the Congressional Budget Office has explicitly denied saying that Obamacare destroys jobs, some (though by no means all) Republicans have stopped lying about that issue and turned to … Continue reading →

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Reason Magazine: Brian Doherty: Why Progressives are Attacking Libertarians so Frequently Lately

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  To put it simply, the reason Progressives have been attacking (I guess, how about critiquing instead) Libertarians so much lately whether it be in Salon or AlterNet or even The New Republic, which is now way to … Continue reading →

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American Enterprise: Michael R. Strain: A $4 Minimum Wage Can Get People Back to Work

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Sure, you could pay someone $4.00 an hour and that would encourage companies to start hiring again and they would probably hire a lot more people again, people who haven’t finished high school and are not even … Continue reading →

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PBS NewsHour: Closing the Gap: Senator Tim Scott on Expanding Educational Opportunities

Posted on February 15, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  If Senator Tim Scott is talking about expanding educational choice in the public school systems including charter schools, then I’m all for that as long as the Federal Government is not mandating this without the funds to … Continue reading →

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The Fiscal Times: Mark Thoma: How Keynes Would Handle an Abnormally Slow Recovery

Posted on February 15, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  I’m all in favor of trying to boost economic and job growth when the economy is weak with something like a new national infrastructure plan, a National Infrastructure Bank. But when you have a national debt as … Continue reading →

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AlterNet: Robert Reich: Why America Has Forgotten Its Three Biggest Economic Lessons

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat AlterNet: Opinion: Robert Reich: Why America Has Lost Its Three Biggest Economic Lessons What Robert Reich and others on the further left of me do not understand is that when we had those huge tax rates in … Continue reading →

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