I'm going to explore a psychological identity crisis that seems particularly rampant among Generation X and Y Progressives in this election cycle: A widespread insistence on registering independent in states with closed primary elections, and therefore eliminating the opportunity to participate in the democratic process.

This blog is cross-posted On One City: The Blog of The Interdependence Project (of which I am the Director).

How often have you heard the refrain in this diary title from a friend or acquaintance that the Democratic and Republican parties are indistinguishable, that they are "all the same"?

Cross-posted to DailyKos.

With Michael Bloomberg's announcement the other week that he has left the GOP, there has been much speculation about an independent bid for the presidency on his part. Bloomberg himself refuses to rule anything out, and, indeed, the mere act of leaving the Republican Party seems to indicate that the mayor may be taking the first steps towards such a bid.

While at least some progressives may be enamoured with Bloomberg, I am not. Nor is there any way I can see myself voting for him for President.

"Who Are These Guys?"
by
JD Hill

Earlier this week I had lunch with an old friend/
former colleague who only recently returned to the
US after having lived and worked abroad for the
better part of the last twenty-five years.

According to Jack many American expatriates are no

Theological atheism: The belief that God exists, but he does not want us to believe in him.

God created evidence to prove that the universe, earth, and life came into existence and developed slowly by natural processes, without any apparent divine intervention. He left this evidence everywhere for us to discover — in the rocks, in fossils, in the DNA of all living things, and in outer space. Since God chose to hide his divine creative powers by using only natural processes that make him redundant, we can conclude he wants to remain invisible and not be acknowledged or worshiped.

In the wake of the Don Imus disaster, one would think that Corporate America would be highly sensitive to the promotion of hate speech, if not for morality's sake, for their profit's sake. For our sake, it's time to fight back and simply say 'No' to Ann Coulter and her hate-mongering.