Tag Archives: Progressive Alaska (blog)

Conservatives for Palin & civility: Fairly unbalanced

Is it really a good thing to be complimented for “courage” by a blogger at the Conservatives for Palin website? Well, mainly it’s a lot of work. It’s nice to be called courageous, sure, but even better is to be represented honestly and in context. Continue reading

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Progressives, civility, & Palin: Anatomy of an apology

A classic example of an apology that is not an apology, however much its author tried to make it into one.

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Progressive bloggers on Palin: Civility versus namecalling

Okay, so we don’t like Sarah Palin or her political views. But does that mean it’s good for us or the nation for us to exercise our free speech through namecalling & insults?

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Toward a 28th Amendment: Corporations are not human persons

Sign the Motion to Amend: part of the Campaign to Legalize Democracy’s campaign to amend the U.S. Constitution to abolish corporate personhood. It’s time to take democracy back.

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Chuffed

I’m pretty darn chuffed that my blog was recognized by Phil Munger of Progressive Alaska for Best Investigative Reporting for 2009 among Alaska progressive blogs.

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My story of 2009

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.

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The new Carrie Prejean?

In what looks like another of last Tuesday’s ploys by Prevo & company, an obvious attempt to bait LGBT people & our allies into turning the newly-crowned Mrs. Alaska United States® into another Carrie Prejean, martyr of the religious right.

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Billboards

While in 2003 Jerry Prevo decried Westboro Baptist Church tactics, in 2009 he & his allies didn’t hesitate to use children — even some younger then 10 — in a very like way, as billboards for their parents’ prejudices.

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