Category Archives: The New Democrat

Movie Clips:Vertigo (1958) Judy Become Madeline

Source:The New Democrat Scotty played by Jimmy Stewart falls in love with Madeline played by Kim Novak who also happens to be the wife of a client of Scotty’s who is a private detective conducting and investigation of Madeline for … Continue reading

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Associated Press: ‘Democratic Governors Push For Minimum Wage Hike’

Source:The New Democrat  I’m all in favor of increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour; actually I would even go up to 12.00 dollars an hour over a 5-year period and even index the minimum wage for inflation so … Continue reading

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The Onion: Open Relationship Gives Couple Freedom to Drain Other People

Source:The New Democrat Sure, why take your frustrations out on your spouse when you can take them out on your mistress. Instead, you could just say, “Honey, look, I don’t want to argue this with you,” and go meet your … Continue reading

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NFL Films: Jim Brown Ultimate Highlights

Source:The New Democrat For anyone who’s not a math junky or a professional accountant or statistician who understands more than numbers and stats when it comes to sports and is actually interested in what goes on in football games and … Continue reading

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The Today Show: Charles Manson Interview (1987)

Source:The New Democrat  Charles Manson has made a couple of admissions of guilt. I’m not a lawyer but this is what it sounds like when he says perhaps he should’ve killed more people. I’m paraphrasing here, but that is pretty … Continue reading

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Fat Hawaiian Man: Charlie Rose 1987 Interview of Charlie Manson

Source:The New Democrat I can feel a certain sympathy for Charlie Manson because it is easy to see why he is so pissed off at a society that provided only the corrections system as an early home for him. Never … Continue reading

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

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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Slate Magazine: Bob Garfield: ‘Why I Love Big Government, a Valentine For Big Government’

Source:The New Democrat Bob Garfield in his column in Slate today was explaining what he loved about big government and laying out a lot of the things that government does and calling them big government. The problem is that not … Continue reading

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The New America Foundation: Justin King- Senator Ron Wyden Wants Children’s Savings Accounts

Source:The New Democrat I somewhat covered this last week with a blog on retirement and unemployment accounts for people so they can save for retirement and not have to burn those accounts when they are unemployed, especially for long periods … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Tanner Colby: Its Time For Progressives to Admit Affirmative Action is Not Working

Source:The New Democrat As a liberal I believe in the notions of equal opportunity and justice for all. Without those two concepts liberalism simply doesn’t mean a hell of a lot and it would just be a class philosophy. Taking … Continue reading

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