No More Honeymoon 
The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal and crossposted at the Independent Bloggers Alliance and the Peace Tree.
Election night 2006 was a satisfying result after the calamity of one party reactionary rule. On a personal level, I juggled my day job and after hours phone banking to help in the effort. Many other activists did the same out of patriotism and desire to establish a bulwark against the corporate theocrats in Washington. It feels like another lifetime and as The Nation duly noted in their latest edition, "The Honeymoon Is Over":
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Child Poverty In the Developed World
The topic below was originally posted in my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal.
An editorial in the March 12th edition of The Nation, (subscription required) noted that Great Britain and the United States have the worst quality of life in the developed world. They cite statistics in a new Unicef Report entitled, Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries.
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