Tag: progressive movement

Trayvon Martin – Lessons Learned
ecthompsonmd July 15, 2013

There are multiple lessons to be learned from the Trayvon Martin – George Zimmerman trial. In spite of the Supreme Court’s decision on voting rights, it is clear that race continues to play a major role in American society If this crime had happened 20 or 30 years ago, there would not have been a trial. There wouldn’t have been an arrest. So, I guess this is progress. It is important for us to understand what truly happened in Sanford, Florida. If we sit back and look at the role that the police played, the role that our justice system played,

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What really happened – we lost, big time
ecthompsonmd August 2, 2011

Dammit! I’m sorry, I don’t care what anybody says, being a progressive is ridiculously hard. We have leaders who pretend that we have no principles. We have leaders that don’t stand up to combat the craziness coming from conservatives on a daily basis. Who are these leaders? Who voted them in? Oh yeah, we did. Well, our “leadership” basically said to the progressive movement that we don’t care. We don’t care what it is that you think. We don’t care if you do represent the majority of Americans. All we want to do is bend over to the Republicans. So, we’ve

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Saturday Morning Roundup
ecthompsonmd June 18, 2011

Netroots Nation (progressive blogger conference) is going on right now. This is the energy, the center of the progressive movement. Recaps can be found here. Speaker of the House John Boehner and President Obama have locked horns over the War Powers Act. President Obama believes the War Powers Act does not apply to action in Libya. I believe this is the same type of action that we saw from the Bush administration, where the president simply didn’t believe that he needed to follow the rules. Glenn Greenwald has more. A closer look at former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty reveals more of

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