Month: December 2011

Occupy Movement: Next Step Convergence Joel S. Hirschhorn There is a growing convergence of thinking about where the US Occupy movement should go as a next step to turning its values, concerns and commitments into changing what...

BooMan responded to a story about GOP spinmeister Frank Luntz’s efforts to craft anti-Occupy Wall Street talking points with a post titled “Worst Person in the World.” Luntz is odious, and yet … well, in...

Here’s a Quote of the Day: “I’m so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death,” said Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist and one of the nation’s foremost experts on...

I originally posted this as a comment on the recent piece America, Beacon of Freedom and Liberty posted here by Geov Parrish. The article was about most of the rest of the world’s rapidly declining view of the US as...

After reading this Washington Post article, which is admittedly a bit of a fluff piece, I had a little fantasy. I imagined a meeting of senior foreign policy officials where Gary Locke received his instructions for his mission...