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Feb 25, 1870: African American congressman sworn in   .article-header Previous Day February 25 Calendar Next Day .date-nav Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Mississippi, is sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit … Continue reading →

Administrator 12.00 Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Hi, my blog brings you news about modern political theory inspired by Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls. See also our Habermas website http://www.habermasforum.dk Follow me on Twitter: PoliticalPhilo … Continue reading →

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse faculty members Thursday approved forming a union, despite the prospect that state action soon could take away any collective bargaining rights gained from the move. The faculty voted 249-37 to organize as part of the American … Continue reading →

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FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership ‘One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights’ As the Main Street Movement of students, workers, and other middle class Americans erupts across America, many conservatives have invoked the legacy of former president Ronald Reagan … Continue reading →

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/opinion/25brooks.html?_r=1&hp Cockeyed Platonist (CP) makes a bold statement in his latest column in The New York Times, a U.S. Government subsidiary. It deserves a full quotation: ‘Daniels’s Conservative Political Action Conference speech had a serious and weighty tone. He spoke … Continue reading →

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/24/AR2011022406520.html The Good Doctor (TGD) is an adept at the production of manufactured political hysteria and we have his latest column as the printed actuality, paper or electronic, an artifact of his gift of  ‘political commentary’. Not the Olympian thought … Continue reading →

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