Blog Profile / Taylor Marsh
| URL : | http://www.taylormarsh.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 5239 | |
| Posts / Week: | 32.3 | |
| Archived Since: | May 12, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Rising Income Inequality in U.S. Result of Government Policies
The rising income inequality in the U.S. is, according to a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the result of government policies. Very likely this comes as no surprise to many. And while it isn’t directly related to the big national conversation of the moment, there is a connection that can be [...]Show More Summary
Putin Considering Asylum for Snowden
Russia has offered to consider an asylum request from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, in the Kremlin’s latest move to woo critics of the west. [Guardian] ONE OF Russia’s politicians has openly declared Edward Snowden a “human rights activist.” The spokesperson for Vladimir Putin went further, even though there is no evidence that Snowden is [...]Show More Summary
Clashes in Turkey Continue [Livestream]
Watch live streaming video from revoltistanbul at livestream.com ERDOGAN, police and the protesters continue to clash violently in Turkey. The above live-streaming is from Occupy Turkey. Another live stream, though not embeddable, comes from a journalist in Instanbul. Show More Summary
John Oliver, You’re Not Paranoid!
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook “Let’s all acknowledge for a moment that this is weird. This looks weird, it feels weird, it even sounds weird.” – John Oliver SOME GUY with a British accent stepped into “The Daily Show” duties of Jon Stewart, [...]Show More Summary
Wherein Jeffrey Toobin Plays Rube for Obama
SOME OF the attacks on Edward Snowden, like what Jeffrey Toobin unloaded in the New Yorker, reveal where this discussion is heading in some quarters, but at least the transparency President Obama once promised is being forced on him, which is obviously the only way it was going to happen. Screen capture at top is [...]Show More Summary
Obama Admits Defeat on Plan B Fight
AFTER BEING excoriated and publicly flogged over playing politics with Plan B by Judge Korman, who said the Obama administration’s decision to restrict the Morning-After Pill “was politically motivated, scientifically unjustified, and...Show More Summary
Majority Think NSA Snooping Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic
OBAMA doesn’t do anything he doesn’t know is fully backed up by the polling, which includes the anti-terror tactics he’s used from day one, which the majority of Americans back. That’s why President Obama is not worried at all about the libertarians in America crying foul over the ongoing spying dragnet under his watch. The [...]Show More Summary
Spying on Citizens, Does Anybody Out There Care?
I hadn’t thought much about the Guardian’s exposé since it was published last Wednesday. My attention has been thoroughly geared towards the exploits of my fantasy baseball team this weekend, and in particular Yasiel Puig’s opening-week heroics for the Dodgers. Sport is my life, aside from a few hours a week when I sit down to [...]Show More Summary
Twitter Upgraded with @HillaryClinton
… hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD… – @HillaryClinton HILLARY hits Twitter. To quote my friend Peter Daou, Looks like @HillaryClinton is picking up about 1000 followers per minute. Thanks for the inspiration...Show More Summary
Buzzfeed Blasts Into Foreign Policy
BUZZFEED has hired The Guardian’s foreign policy editor Miriam Elder, as the eclectic model for the site expands into serious international news, which was reported today by PaidContent. This was likely Ben Smith’s long-term plan for Buzzfeed since he became editor in chief, as his interests and own reporting at Politico curved toward foreign affairs [...]Show More Summary
Prostitutes “Endemic” to Clinton Security Detail
WILL anyone be surprised by the CBS report that Secretary Clinton’s security detail engaged prostitutes while traveling with her on official trips? If the Secret Service is going to do it you can bet it is indeed “endemic,” however you want to apply that term. From John Miller of CBS News: CBS News’ John Miller [...]Show More Summary
Queer Talk: Pentagon to Begin Same-Sex Couple Benefits Sept. 1
By way of an internal posting and without public notice, the Pentagon announced that benefits to same-sex couples will begin to be provided on Sept. 1, 2013. The benefits are limited, but are another reflection of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT). The benefits to be offered to “same-sex domestic partners,” referred to [...]Show More Summary
JFK’s Equal Pay Act Meets ‘The Feminine Mystique’
TODAY is the 50 year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, which was signed by John F. Kennedy. President Obama is commemorating the event and prodding action by Congress. Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Act, while Republicans opposed it and continue to do so by opposing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Once again, it’s Senator Kirsten [...]Show More Summary
Gallup, Hillary and the Right-wing Benghazi Buzzsaw
THE Republican parade of falsification and fulmination on Benghazi and the efforts of the right-wing to tar Hillary Clinton with the death of four Americans has had an effect. It’s just not near what they had hoped. Politics, especially if she announces she’s running for president in 2016, was always going to eventually bring Hillary [...]Show More Summary
Daniel Ellsberg and the ‘United Stasi of America’
MILLENNIALS utilizing technology today weren’t alive when Daniel Ellsberg broke the Pentagon Papers. If you were alive then you know what the name Daniel Ellsberg means to the First Amendment and the Vietnam Era. From the Guardian, a piece from Daniel Ellsberg: In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important [...]Show More Summary
Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC’s Morning Joe Makes Classic Mistake
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy IF YOU are going to read the White House case against Edward Snowden on air, as Mika Brzezinski did this morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, at least begin by saying, “I’m going to read something that rebuts your assertions, Glenn,” or something similar. [...]Show More Summary
IT Security Analyst Edward Snowden is NSA Whistblower
“I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions,” but “I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.” – Edward Snowden WHEN Glenn Greenwald said there would be more reporting coming [...]Show More Summary
Allying with Sen. Rand Paul to Take on Obama’s Snooping [Video]
“I’m going to challenge this at the Supreme Court.” – Senator Rand Paul NOTHING inspires libertarians to act out more than a federal government overstepping its authority, with Sen. Rand Paul making quite a statement on Fox News Sunday. I wrote the other day that President Obama’s invasive, extra-constitutional, anti civil liberties snooping was igniting [...]Show More Summary
Queer Talk: Ellen Sturtz – “Why I Confronted the First Lady”
Ellen Sturtz, the lesbian who confronted the First Lady, Michelle Obama, at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser, reportedly held at the home of a lesbian couple, has written “Why I Confronted the First Lady,” in the Washington Post. Sturtz has received everything from angry criticism – and the use of the word “heckler” plays a [...]Show More Summary
Obama Claims Congress Knew About Prism
“The programs are secret in the sense that they are classified. They are not secret, in that every member of Congress has been briefed… These are programs that have been authored by large bipartisan majorities repeatedly since 2006… Your duly elected representatives have consistently been informed.” – President Obama ON FRIDAY, President Obama made a [...]Show More Summary