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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
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The majority of Americans believe that their country spends more than 20 percent of its budget on foreign aid and that this figure should be reduced; the true figure is less than 1 percent and is the lowest in the developed world.
Anatol Levien, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism
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It is really mortifying Sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of Education between the male and female Sex, even in those families where Education is attended too. Every assistance and advantage which can be procured is afforded to the sons, whilst the daughters are totally neglected in point of Literature. Writing and Arithmetick comprise all their Learning. Why should children of the same parents be thus distinguished?… Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me Sir if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this Neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the Throne.

Abigail Adams, in a letter to her cousin John Thaxter, 1778. (via pantslessprogressive)

I have a deep love for Abigail Adams. I’m starting to warm up to John, but I still prefer Abigail.

(via feministslut)

(Source: pantslessprogressive)

(Reblogged from signorinasegovia)
theweekmagazine: In case you missed it, we’ve got a rundown of the winners and losers of last night’s GOP debate. One definite loser? The GOP: The telling moment came when Baier asked the candidates whether they would accept a deal from President Obama with $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes, says Joshua Greenman at the New York Daily News. Remember: Three out of four Americans support tax increases on the super-rich as part of a plan to reduce the deficit. And yet, not a single Republican candidate said they’d accept that incredibly favorable deal. It makes the GOP look incapable of finding someone who really wants to lead a deeply divided nation. “And these people criticize Barack Obama for failing to unite the country?” Read about how all the candidates scored

theweekmagazine:

In case you missed it, we’ve got a rundown of the winners and losers of last night’s GOP debate. One definite loser? The GOP:

The telling moment came when Baier asked the candidates whether they would accept a deal from President Obama with $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes, says Joshua Greenman at the New York Daily News. Remember: Three out of four Americans support tax increases on the super-rich as part of a plan to reduce the deficit. And yet, not a single Republican candidate said they’d accept that incredibly favorable deal. It makes the GOP look incapable of finding someone who really wants to lead a deeply divided nation. “And these people criticize Barack Obama for failing to unite the country?”

Read about how all the candidates scored

(Reblogged from zakc)
stfuxenophobes: With current immigration laws in place, THESE are the jobs that undocumented people often have to take.  Who lived on that land first, sir? View high resolution

stfuxenophobes:

With current immigration laws in place, THESE are the jobs that undocumented people often have to take. 

Who lived on that land first, sir?

(Source: wtfmorringhan)

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For those who are out of the loop View high resolution

For those who are out of the loop

Is the Debt Ceiling a Civil Liberties Issue?

This article has great commentary about the civil liberties consequences of budget cuts, including the restructuring of programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the Affordable Care Act, which serve as a social safety net to the country’s poorest people.

The House of Representatives says these programs are too expensive, and yet we must continue to allow tax breaks for the wealthiest and least diverse 1% of our population.  In other words, helping the poor is too costly, but cuts into military spending and domestic security is not an option.  

“The elections in 2012 will be a test as to whether we elect leaders who will deepen the economic crisis on the backs of the poor and middle class, or whether we choose people who care both about civil liberties and strengthening the economic conditions of a majority of Americans. We need to convince people to vote as if our lives and livelihood depend on it, because they do.”

photojojo: This is an amusing anti-censorship ad campaign by Reporters Without Borders, where images featuring political leaders are strategically pixelated to alter perception and add new meaning. Censorship Tells The Wrong Story awesome campaign. View high resolution

photojojo:

This is an amusing anti-censorship ad campaign by Reporters Without Borders, where images featuring political leaders are strategically pixelated to alter perception and add new meaning.

Censorship Tells The Wrong Story

awesome campaign.

(Reblogged from thefuror1-deactivated20120224)

U.S. to Take Another Look at Gay Blood Donation Ban

So Important.

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But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.

Rachel Maddow (via somesmithie)

AMEN!  Preach it, sister!

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