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To simplify the above into two slightly misleading sentences: The Lib Dems are New Democrats. Labour are union Democrats.
To simplify even further: The Lib Dems are in coalition with the Tories. This makes them Tories.
- U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Quadrupled Since Mid-1980s – We know that income inequality has reached French Revolutionary levels, so it stands to reason that racial inequality moves in concert considering the poverty rate among minorities. We’re lucky Sen. Webb is a leader on this issue.
- They’re Liberals, Not Leftists – Labour vs. Lib Dems in a nice, if ideological, explanation of British political parties.
- Round Two – If you haven’t been tracking the Ruth Institute saga on DailyKos, go read this. It is stunning that we are still defending the rights of women to have the same freedom of self-determination as men in public fora.
- Household Income in The United States – We’re pretty much all wealthy here in Loudoun. It doesn’t matter how rich you “feel,” the statistics show that the vast majority of us are in the top-third of household incomes in the U.S. Denial of that reality is at the heart of many of our rhetorical disconnects when talking about taxes, among other things.
- Student’s Arrest Tests Immigration Policy – I’ll say it, if you were brought here as an undocumented migrant as a child, by your parents, you should not have to face the same consequences as an adult who crossed the border illegitimately.
- Stories from the Frontlines – Collected testimonies on the real cost of the failed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
…but, as she admitted, she “didn’t really expect anyone to respond,” it was just demagoguery. Not sure where they are based, but Ruth Institute/National Organization for Marriage is one of the many names for basically the same organization. Locally, mail-order reverend Jack Stagman tried to get one of their programs going – they managed to get the Purcellville Town Council to sign on to their resolution before anyone realized that it was a sectarian religious group that did not welcome all Loudoun residents.
Wait, is the Ruth Institute based here in Loudoun, or were they just reaching out into our community with that exchange?
Thanks for alerting us to the Daily KOS articles on Dr J’s Ruth Institute. I had an exchange with her over at Equality Loudoun a couple of years back. See Go tell it to the chickens and Bitter first fruits and sarcastic “academics”. I’ve been on Dr. J’s email list for years. In one email, she issued a challenge:
In response, I called her and asked for the model legislation and told her that I’d present it to my state delegate and senator. It was a bluff. There was no model legislation.
That exchange started a back and forth and a little bit of research. It’s good to see her being exposed. If you read my posts, you’ll see that Dr. J’s junk social science is promoted by Loudoun’s own Prison Fellowship Ministries.
The last line of that article says it all: “What’s the point of educating an illegal immigrant in a system where she can’t hold a job legally or get a driver’s license?”
Those in favor of the draconian laws want to make sure that the children of illegal immigrants are kept ignorant, unschooled, and poor, so that they can have a constant pool of cheap, frightened labor – who are afraid to go to the police about the abuses of their employers for fear of being put in prison and deported.
Lovely.