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Contents * Featured Articles Calendars of Events Communication with Our Members Opportunities Petitions Commentaries from Our Members Donald Smith: Competent Government Is a Solution Norm Conrad: Hold Office Holders Accountable Liberals and Democrats Links to the Beef What Dick Cheney Isn’t Telling Us State and Local Links
to the Beef Organizing for America
Meets in Bellevue* Ways to Create a Low Consumption Local Economy Featured Advocacy Group: World Future Council Nation and World Links to the Beef U.N. Official Asks Investigation of U.S. Unlawful Deaths Help U.S. Increase Diplomatic & Development Tools Michael Moore’s Plan for General Motors* Our Liberal Spirit Our
Political Priorities ·
Fair Clean
Elections and Open Government ·
Fair Taxes and
Competent Spending ·
Investment for
Productivity ·
Quality
Health, Education, Jobs, Income ·
Environmental
Protection and Energy Independence ·
Security and
Equal Rights ·
Justice and
Peace Everywhere ·
International
Cooperation and Leadership Conservatives oppose all of these Let’s
End Our National Nightmare
Let’s
Restore Our American Dream More on Conservative opposition to our
American Dream Washington State’s 5 Major Needs ·
Federal
Funding for Health and Education · Substitute
a Progressive Income Tax · Replacing
Conservative Legislators Quote of the Week The
Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Title of spaghetti western film starring
Clint Eastwood
Calendar of Events
Saturday, June 6 at
12 Noon at Whatcom Educational Credit Union (
Saturday, June 6 at
6:30 at
Thursday, June 11
at 7:30 at Seattle Central Library Washington Mutual Foundation Meeting Room (
Friday
June 12, 2009, 7 to 9 pm at the
Saturday, June 13
at 6:30 PM at LueRachelle
Brim-Atkins’s home (
Saturday, June 13
at 6 PM at
Thursday,
June 18 at 6:30 at
Friday,
June 26 at 6:30 at
Communication
with Our Members
Benjamin Barber, A Place for Us
Ravi Batra, The Myth of Free Trade
& The New Golden Age & Greenspan's Fraud
Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis, Democracy
& Capitalism
John Dean, Broken Government and Conservatives without Conscience
Stewart Ewen, PR! – A Social History
of Spin Lawrence Goodwyn, The
Populist Moment
William Greider, Who Will Tell the
People & Secrets of the Temple
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine
Juliet Schor, The Overworked American
Thomas Wolff, Top Heavy
Roy Morrison, We Build the Road as We
Travel
Norm also recommends the Progressive
Book Club.
Opportunities
Useful
Websites: contacts, maps, community organizing tools, and more.
Access
to jillions of political cartoons.
Download
Sightline Institute’s climate policy primer ‘Cap and Trade 101’. About
Sightline.
Conduct your own home energy audit.
See all of President Obama’s
weekly (Saturday) addresses.
Listen to Pete Seeger
singing and hear about his history of political singing (video). For more. I have a signed Pete Seeger songbook that I
got in 1945 when I listened to him sing in a
Petitions
Tell
your congress members to support the SLUM Assistance Act.
Tell
your congress members to maintain funding for Serve America Act.
Tell
your congress member to support early education funding proposed by President
Obama.
Thank
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch and legislators for passing marriage
equality.
Tell
Dr. Teller’s family members and women’s health care providers that you condemn
his murder.
Commentaries
From Our Members
Donald Smith: Competent Government Is a Solution
Published by
Conservatives often say things like:
Government can only confiscate wealth from productive citizens and give it to
unproductive citizens; government itself produces nothing of value. Balderdash!
Thanks to government, we have civil
rights, traffic regulations, safe aviation, labor laws, sanitation, seat belts
and contracts. Thanks to agencies like
the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation, we have
childhood immunization, new drugs and the Internet. The FBI and the police
fight crimes such as murder, robbery, rape, identity theft, child pornography
and embezzlement. Aren't conservatives in favor of law-and-order, as well as
strong national defense? Regulatory agencies like the SEC protect us from
financial mismanagement (reckless deregulation was a major cause of the
subprime crash). The Centers for Disease Control and Safety fight diseases such
as swine flu. The FDA battles unsafe food and medicines. The EPA tackles toxins
and environmental degradation. FEMA comes to the rescue for disasters.
Locally, government provides public
transportation, water, sewage, licensing, parks, roads, land management,
courts, emergency services, snow removal and libraries. The social safety net cares for the sick,
poor and elderly. And public education works. The
Is government often corrupt and
wasteful? Absolutely! But so is the
private sector (consider Enron, Wall Street, Bernie Madoff, banks and AIG).
Moreover, corruption, waste and mismanagement flourished when Republicans ran
the federal government, from 2000 to 2006.
Yes, government can be tyrannical (unnecessary war, torture). Yes, many
Democrats are corrupt, too. Yes, government is often co-opted by special
interests. But let's acknowledge all the good that government does and can do.
The solution isn't to give up
and minimize government; we'd end up dysfunctional, like
Given our massive public debt
and the increasingly skewed distribution of wealth, we must raise taxes on the
well-to-do. Conservatives complain that taxation and national health insurance
amount to socialist redistribution of wealth. But in reality, government has
tended to redistribute wealth to the rich, via corporate welfare, no-bid
contracts, tax breaks and (recently) bailouts.
It's sad when middle class people fall
for relentless conservative propaganda about government and taxes. Government isn't the problem. Corruption and
lack of accountability are the problem. Donald A. Smith
It was good to meet you. I have a suggestion for
encouraging better representation from wayward Democratic Senators and Representatives. Find out what that Senator's margin of
victory was in the last election. Get a petition drive going with the
objective of gathering signatures from twice as many registered voters as that
margin of victory.
The petition would be a pledge to refuse to vote for
that Senator (or Rep.) in his/her next re-election attempt unless we see a
significant change in his/her voting record by a specific date. If we see
no acceptable change, our names would be a great start toward a primary
challenge to send her/him back home to private life.
Liberals
and Democrats
Government Watch
Also go to Whitehouse.gov.
Speech to Moslems
President Obama’s speech to
Moslems (transcript and video).
Obama described our historic differences, called for a new beginning and
cited 6 Mid-East issues to be resolved: terrorist extremists, Iraqi
sovereignty, Israeli/Palestinian statehood, nuclear non-proliferation, democracy
and women’s rights. He spoke unpleasant
truths to all, while offering pleasant futures through cooperation.
Health Care Reform
President Obama
tells supporters to tell congress that we
must have health care reform now. For
more. Senator
Ted Kennedy says Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions subcommittee will include public health insurance
in its report. For
more. Senator
Max Baucus supports public health insurance option. Kennedy
and Baucus will try to create a single bill, which includes a public health
insurance option. For
more. For more.
Regulation and Enforcement
FDIC
Chair Sheila Blair seeks to restrict power of large financial companies.
In 1932 through 1934 the Senate Banking Committee,
led by its Chief Counsel Ferdinand Pecora, ferreted out the deeper fraud and
corruption that led to the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. The Pecora
Committee's findings helped change the political mood, and laid the groundwork
for the sweeping financial reforms of
How
the Obama Administration developed its American auto industry recovery
strategy. For more.
For more.
Agricultural
Secretary Tom Vilsack ends discrimination against Black farmers. Obama
Administration gives Agriculture Department Secretary Tom Vilsack sole authority on
development in roadless areas for one year.
President
Obama appoints Republican congressman as Secretary of the Army.
What Dick Cheney Isn’t Telling Us
·
Prior to 9/11, his
administration rejected pleas by the FBI to increase funding and manpower for
counter-terrorism.
·
CIA intelligence reports
told the President that al-Qaeda was planning a major attack, probably by air.
·
Following 9/11, the
Administration carried out a systematic shredding of six Constitutional
amendments in the mistaken belief that somehow snipping away at
·
Although torture was used,
contrary to every international law, it did not, according to senior officials
at both the FBI and CIA, produce valuable intelligence.
·
It was probably his
paranoia and fears that pushed the nation's military and intelligence
communities to use torture.
·
·
By diverting
Here’s the Beef
Contrary
to what commercial media pundits say, most Americans are Liberals.
MSNBC
has become the Liberal equivalent of Conservative Fox News.
George
Lakoff says Conservatives are trying to frame empathy as irrational.
Notice
how Liberals are speaking out both to support and oppose President Obama’s
views.
Grass roots support
is necessary to get the reforms we want.
Our
Obama Administration has made a series of anti-environmental decisions.
1000
advocacy organizations, 30 million members, $82 million for Liberal health care
reform. More.
An
Assistant Treasury Official for Tax Policy should be appointed soon.
Large
financial companies organize to lobby against regulation.
Some
employers support the Employee Free Choice Act.
Why
is our Obama Administration not applying pressure to Sudan about Darfur?
State
and Local
Organizing for
A
successor to our Obama Campaign Organization, Organizing for America
is conducting a dozen Listening Campaign meetings in
Participatory Procedures
Ten
groups seated at round tables, spent forty minutes discussing:
·
How can we
connect our concern with local issues with our priorities for federal action?
·
What resources to
reach our goals do we need and have in our community?
·
What should
Organizing for
Each person at each table was encouraged to speak with
no one dominating the conversations.
Notes were taken and each group reported their thoughts to the whole
meeting. This participative procedure
(which I often used in my community development activities) produced a variety
of constructive ideas.
Relating Local Concerns to National
Priorities
People
noted that due to our lousy tax system, our governor and legislature has
trashed our education, health and other social services. Global warming will increase our fire danger
and reduce our snow pack, necessary for providing water during the summer. On the Eastside, in
Major Needed Resource is Local
Communication
Our
tasks are to mobilize public opinion and influence our federal and state
legislators to support needed changes.
The major resource that we need is the capacity to communicate with each other to organize such activities
as rallies, marches, vigils, house parties, neighborhood canvassing and blog-type
discussions. And such activities as
organizing forums for our congressional and legislative candidates and
incumbents; meeting, phoning, emailing and writing them; and sending them
petitions.
We
need internet groups at State,
Coalitions with Advocacy Organizations
People
suggested that our major available resources are our hundreds
of local, state and national advocacy organizations. These have expertise concerning our many
issues. We can join with coalitions of
these organizations to act together to realize the changes we want. An example was the large rally which was held
Saturday for health care reform. Our
state and local Democratic Party organizations were not mentioned.
The End Result
At
the end of 2009, Organizing for
Ten
reasons why we need an organized independent Liberal movement.
Ways to Create a Sustainable Low Consumption Local
Economy
By Sara van
Gelder Published in Summer 2009 Yes Magazine
At Home
1. Rent out a room in your home, or swap space for gardening, child or elder care, or
carpentry.
2. Buy less so
you can buy higher quality. Buy from companies that “internalize” costs by
passing along to you the cost of living wages, low carbon footprints, or
organic production.
3. Take your money out of predator banks and put it into a credit union, local bank, or an
institution like Shorebank
Pacific that supports sustainable businesses.
4. Pay off debts. Try life without credit cards.
5. Downsize your home and shrink your mortgage.
6. Fix things.
Mend clothing, repair the vacuum, fix the car—instead of replacing them. Or
give them away on Freecycle.org.
7. Invest with passion. Know where your money is and what it’s up to. Go for
a living return that builds your community. Or invest in tangible things
like a prepaid college fund or a piece of land.
8. Shorten the supply chain. Pick the wild greens and extra fruit
growing in your neighborhood. If you can’t do that, then buy direct from a
farmer. If you can’t do that, then look for local produce in season at your
locally owned grocers.
9. Support other people’s local economies by urging your representatives in Congress to cancel debts to poor
countries (see www.jubileeusa.org).
10. Find a place, put down roots, and stay put. Get to know people from other
generations. Turn off the TV and talk to friends and neighbors.
11. Support local green businesses rather than distant energy conglomerates by
insulating your house, upgrading windows, and installing solar.
TOGETHER
WITH FRIENDS
12. Form a dinner club and hold a weekly potluck, or trade off
cooking and hosting.
13. Dip your toe in the barter economy. Check out Craigslist’s “barter” category, and learn
what WTT means (Willing To Trade). Even better, ask the guy at work who makes
microbrews to trade a sixpack for a dozen of your chickens’ eggs.
14. Get together with coworkers and start a list of things you can do at work. For
example, buy fair trade coffee, change to energy-efficient lighting, or
carpool.
15. Start a Common Security Club in your faith community or neighborhood to help folks
cope in the crisis and act together to create the new economy (www.commonsecurityclub.org).
16. Exchange care of children and elders. Better yet, bring the generations together and
support each in offering love and care to the others.
17. Pool funds
with a group of friends for home repairs, greening projects, or emergencies.
18. Do home work parties. Each month, go to a different household to do major
home greening, a garden upgrade, or some deferred maintenance.
19. Keep more people from becoming homeless by challenging evictions and occupying vacant homes.
20. Create a space at a farmers market to exchange
or sell used clothes, electronics, games, CDs, plants, seeds, compost, and
books. Encourage people to swap services, too, like haircuts, photography, or
prepared dinners.
21. Reach out to
groups that are organizing people on the frontlines of the crisis, like Jobs
with Justice (www.jwj.org) and Right to the City (www.righttothecity.org).
IN
YOUR COMMUNITY
22. Link up people looking for job skills with people who can offer apprenticeships.
23. Start a local currency or time dollar program to help link needs and
offerings, those with time and those starved for time.
24. Use publicly owned lands for community gardens, farmers markets, business
incubators, community land trusts (with affordable housing), community-rooted
grocery stores.
25. Hold on to the local businesses you already have. Help retiring entrepreneurs sell to
employees or other locals.
26. Create a car, kayak, and electric pick-up truck co-op to save money and carbon, and provide access to a
variety of vehicles.
27. Create or join a chapter of the Business
28. Start a community bank, loan fund, or credit union to invest in local
well-being, or encourage existing ones to rethink their lending.
29. Declare an end to corporate personhood in your community. Barnstead, New Hampshire
did, and, more recently, three communities in
30. Hold a weekly dinner for the hungry. Ask those who attend to help serve food at subsequent
dinners. (Having an opportunity to give is important for everyone’s dignity).
31. Keep your energy dollars circulating locally. Launch a clean energy cooperative to install wind
turbines or solar roofs, and to weatherize homes and businesses.
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Voice of Future Gnerations
The World Future Council
brings the interests of future generations to the centre of policy making. Its 50 eminent members from around the globe have already
successfully promoted change. The Council addresses challenges to our common future and provides decision-makers
with effective policy solutions. In-depth research underpins advocacy work for
international agreements, regional policy frameworks and national lawmaking and
thus produces practical and tangible results.
For more.
Vision
We envision a sustainable, just and peaceful future, where the dignity and
rights of every living being and the connectedness of human beings to all life
are universally respected.
The WFC aims to be an ethical voice for the needs and rights of future
life.
Values
The World Future Council endorses the principles
embodied in the Earth Charter and will incorporate them in its own
proposals for policy reform.
·
Respect for earth and life in all its
diversity
·
Care for the community of life
·
Integrity of Earth's ecological systems
·
Social and economic justice and gender
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·
Just and participatory democracy, non-violence
and peace
Key Challenges
The Council has been set up to address key environmental, economic,
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Council shall develop and help implement best policy solutions for current
problems facing mankind, with the main work being carried out by Expert
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Protection of Forests and Oceans
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Corporate Accountability and Trade Justice
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Programs and Projects
In order to achieve a just, sustainable and peaceful
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Here’s the Beef
Initiative
for Global Development promotes
reducing global poverty as moral and political priority.
High-tech
Northwest businesses may lead U.S. economic recovery.
Micro
lending in U.S. can create jobs during current recession.
Renewed
Lake Hills shopping center
Bellevue
is supporting neighborhood development projects.
A
Portland, OR architect is designing super insulated homes, can be heated with a
blow dryer.
NW
governors ask Energy Secretary to fund BPA study of using renewable energy.
Seattle firm
has created seeds that can provide biofuel that can be used by airplanes.
Rob McKenna
and other state’s attorneys general defend Israeli actions in Gaza.
Nation
and World
Several Needed Lawsuits
I
don’t understand why two badly needed lawsuits have not be made.
Corporations Aren’t People
Based
on a note attached to a Supreme Court decision by a court reporter, our courts
have assumed that corporations
have the same legal status as people.
Defenders of corporate personhood have frequently referred to the 14th
amendment to our constitution, which was certainly not written to address
this issue. This issue is addressed
fully in Thom Hartmann’s 2002 book, Unequal
Protection. The Rise of Corporate Domination and the Theft of Human Rights
and in Marjorie Kelly’s 2001 book, The
Divine Right of Capital. Dethroning the
Corporate Aristocacy.
Since
corporations have many more resources than people, they have much more
power. To give them rights of privacy,
rights of expression, rights of petition to our lawmakers and executors, is to
give them much more power than people.
Yet
while people have broad sets of values, our corporations have focused upon
their own self interests oriented to making profits, often produced through
abusing their employees, consumers, suppliers, our environment and even their
stockholders. If corporate rights were
restricted as they are in
Federal Reserve Shouldn’t Be Directed by
Private Bankers
Our
Federal Reserve is a creature of our Congress.
As such, it should not be controlled by private interests. Yet it is controlled by bankers. Thus instead of the priority of low
unemployment, its priorities are low inflation and maintenance of bank
profitability. A lawsuit should be
instituted to remove bankers from control of our Federal Reserve. This issue is addressed fully by James
Galbraith in his 1998 book, Created
Unequal.
Good, Bad and Ugly Countries
Last
week, I described good, bad and ugly economic stimuli and different approaches
that are being taken to them. These
categories (good, bad and ugly) may be applied to other phenomena, such as
countries or personal habits. Good Countries have governments which
primarily attempt to improve the lives of their people. Bad
Countries have military, religious or other dictatorships which control and
abuse their people. Bad countries also include failed states in which weak governments
allow control and abuse of people by competing warlords or other factions. Ugly
Countries include crony capitalist and other governments which reward
private businesses at the expense of their people. Some countries are difficult to classify,
because they exhibit mixtures of good, bad and ugly and appear in transition
between these categories. I don’t know
enough about some to classify them.
Good Countries
The
best examples of good countries are countries within the European Union. And other countries such as
Bad Countries
Dictators
control
In
Ugly Countries
Our
U.S is a crony capitalist country, in which special corporate interests are
able to abuse our people.
The
good news is that more countries are becoming good countries. The bad news is that bad and ugly countries
still exist. And our world trade is
largely ugly. Since the situation of
many countries is mixed or in transition, my classifications may be
faulty. I welcome your comments.
U.N. Official Calls
for Investigation of
The U.N. special rapporteur on
extrajudicial killings called for a special prosecutor to investigate the
policies and practices that have led to unlawful deaths and other abuses in the
·
Ensuring that
imposition of the death penalty complies with fundamental due process
requirements
·
Providing greater
transparency into law enforcement, military and intelligence operations that
result in potentially unlawful deaths
·
Investigating and
punishing unlawful deaths in
·
Promptly and publicly
reporting and investigating all deaths in immigration detention and ensuring
medical care consistent with international standards
·
Adhering to due
process requirements under international human rights and humanitarian law in
the prosecution of
·
Releasing complete
and unredacted investigations and autopsy results into the deaths of Guantánamo
detainees to family members
Help
Next
week the House is expected to consider the House Foreign Affairs Committee the 2010
Foreign Relations Authorization Act (H.R. 2410), a bill that would
significantly strengthen the tools of diplomacy, development and international
cooperation in the United States. Your voice is needed to ensure that
your Representative votes FOR this important legislation. Included in this bill
is support for:
· Finally, paying back
· Developing
· Increasing global training of peacekeepers and helping
to refurbish helicopters desperately needed in
· Paying our fair share of international peacekeeping
activities, as well as increasing
Urge
your representative to vote for H.R. 2410 when it comes to a vote on the
House floor next week! Laura Hendrick, Outreach Director, Citizens for Global Solutions
Michael Moore’s Plan for General Motors.
1.
Just as President
Roosevelt did after the attack on
2. Don't put another $30 billion
into the coffers of GM to build cars. Instead, use that money to keep the
current workforce -- and most of those who have been laid off -- employed so
that they can build the new modes of 21st century transportation. Let them
start the conversion work now.
3. Announce that we will have
bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years.
4. Initiate a program to put
light rail mass transit lines in all our large and medium-sized cities. Build
those trains in the GM factories. And hire local people everywhere to install
and run this system.
5. For people in rural areas not
served by the train lines, have the GM plants produce energy efficient clean
buses.
6. For the time being, have some
factories build hybrid or all-electric cars (and batteries).
7. Transform some of the empty GM
factories to facilities that build windmills, solar panels and other means of
alternate forms of energy. We need tens of millions of solar panels right now.
And there is an eager and skilled workforce who can build them.
8. Provide tax incentives for
those who travel by hybrid car or bus or train. Also, credits for those who
convert their home to alternative energy.
9. To help pay for this, impose a
two-dollar tax on every gallon of gasoline.
Well,
that's a start. Please, please, please don't save GM so that a smaller version
of it will simply do nothing more than build Chevys or Cadillacs. This is not a
long-term solution. For more.
Beyond
manufacturing, we need to increase training and earnings of personal service
workers.
Our New Thriftiness
Compared
to January, 2008, we are purchasing about the same amount of services (up
0.9%). Our purchase of durable goods is
down 9.2%. Automobiles and parts down
21%; Furnishings down 14%; Electronics and appliances down 12%; Sporting goods,
hobbies, books and music down 2%.
Here’s the Beef
Southeast
Asia is weathering our global economic collapse better than most other regions.
Chinese
auto makers are gaining market share in growing home market.
Repayment,
default and discrimination are reducing number of unidentified toxic loans.
Global warming may
already be causing 300,000 deaths per year from heat waves, fires and floods.
Suppose
we did everything we can imagine to curb global warming.
Simulation
has been developed for global warming effects in local areas.
The
biggest bang for the stimulus-investment buck may be in energy conserving
buildings. For
more. For
more.
Houses
have increased from 1050 sf in 1950 to 2500 sf.
More people are opting for smaller houses.
Manufactured
homes may include green features.
Obama
Administration asks congress to restore federal regulation of all wetlands and
streams.
Drivers may only get
10% of walking exercise they need for good health.
25%
of employees may be stuck in their jobs for fear of losing health insurance.
Funding
community health centers saves money and lives.
Buying
the right foods can offer good nutrition while saving money.
Education
should be for living, not just for getting a job.
20% of
Harvard Business School graduates sign a pledge to be ethical.
Is a more tolerant
post-evangelical church emerging?
Federal customs
officials harass peace activist Nobel prize winner.
Several of 96
countries that signed treaty banning cluster bombs are already destroying them.
More.
Iraqi government plans
to arrest 1000 government officials for corruption.
Should any Israel or any country
have the right to exist as a religious state?
Can our Obama
Administration settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without dealing with
Hamas?
Israel
wrecked Gaza’s infrastructure and blockades its repair.
Israel
insists on expanding West Bank Jewish settlements.
Our
Liberal Spirit
Good, Bad and Ugly Habits
Good Habits
Our
good habits include caring for ourselves to the best of our abilities. Recognizing, accepting and attempting to
carry our responsibilities. Being kind
and compassionate toward others. Being a
low maintenance person who leaves a light footprint.
Bad Habits
Our
bad habits include abusing others and our environment. Contributing to the worsening of our world.
Ugly Habits
Our
ugly habits include various passions and addictions, such as alcohol, drugs,
tobacco and shopping which harm us and engender bad habits. Our ugly habits make us high maintenance
people.
We
should honestly inventory our various habits.
We need to find mentors and create a network of supporters to assist
us. With their help, we need to decide
ways to implement and increase our good habits.
This includes becoming low maintenance instead of high maintenance
persons. We need to get help to address
our ugly and bad habits to minimize their harm to us and others.
Recommended Books – See our list of books for liberals
Michael Lux, 2009, The Progressive Revolution. How the Best in
This is an easy-to-read comprehensive
history of American Liberalism.
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