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I've included some great articles that you shouldn't miss, check out Frank Rich and the " Mess with Texas" issue of Newsweek. Also try to attend one of the great local campaign and Democratic group meetings.
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 | Where's the Outrage? Thoughtful, intelligent, entertaining, progressive discussion about politics, sports and whatever with Errington Thompson | | 
Our friend , longtime supporter, former Dallasite and Progressive Talker from Asheville, NC Errington Thompson has been a little giddy about Barack and Michele Obama being in his town this weekend - last time I heard from him Obama had not yet called him ... ;-)
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You can email Errington and suggest a topic or a interview or you can thank him for being a huge supporter of Progressive Talk and of North Texas Progressive! | | Newsweek Makes a Mess of Texas | | 
The cover of Newsweek (4/26/10) proclaims: "Don't Mess With Texas: What Governor Rick Perry's Hard-Right Creed Tells Us About America."
I can't say I learned much about America, but I guess I learned something about Newsweek: They really like Rick Perry.
The story, by Evan Thomas and Arian Campo-Flores, begins with the observation, "The myth of the once and future king is as old as Camelot, as ancient as the Bible." Perry, it seems, is a living example of such a "redeemer":
In Texas, his name is Rick Perry. Raised in a ranch house with no running water in the West Texas town of Paint Creek, yell leader at Texas A&M, Air Force pilot, longest serving governor in Texas history. Ruggedly handsome in a Marlboro Man sort of way, with a rich mane of brown hair, slightly tinged with silver gray. Perry, 60, stands for less government and more growth, for freedom and against bureaucracy, for Texas and against Washington. It's a message that has made him a very popular politician in Texas, particularly among conservative white males. As the Tea Party movement gains momentum, as more Americans are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, Perry is their kind of hero.
Newsweek goes on to wonder if Perry might really be "the second coming of Ronald Reagan, the plain-spoken man from the West who presided over a new 'Morning in America' by cutting taxes, reducing government (well, promising to) and standing tall against the nation's enemies?"
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No story  has been more central to America's history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book thatfully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama's life or explores the ambition behind his rise.Those familiar with Obama's own best-selling memoiror his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but now-from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significanceof unfolding events is without peer-we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.
The Bridge offers the most complete account yet ofObama's tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandonedhis family and ended his life as a beaten man;of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obamato the social tensions and intellectual currentsthat would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young mancreated himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, anexperience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged. | | Next Stop on the Campaign Trail or Neil Durrance ! | | 
NCTC Education Forum
April 29, 2010
3:30-5:00 p.m.
NCTC Corinth Campus, Room 315
1500 N. Corinth St.
Corinth, TX 76208
Join me along with the faculty, staff, and students of North Central Texas College as we discuss much-needed reforms of Texas education and how the 2010 election can bring meaningful change to our educational system, the rock of our economy and society.
If you can't join us on Thursday, go to www.durranceforcongress.comto find how you can do your part to return government to the people! | | Jon Stewart's Punching Bag, Fox News -New York Times | |  George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are long gone. Fox News Channel is Jon Stewart's new enemy No. 1.
Last week that comedian did something that the hosts of "Fox & Friends," the morning show on Fox News, did not do: he had his staff members call the White House and ask a question.
It may have been in pursuit of farce, not fact, but it gave credence to the people who say "The Daily Show" is journalistic, not just satiric. "Fox & Friends" had repeatedly asked whether the crescent-shaped logo of the nuclear security summit was an "Islamic image," one selected by President Obama in his outreach to the Muslim world. The White House told "The Daily Show" that the logo was actually based on the Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom.
See video here / More at MSNBC
| | North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | | 
Texas Democratic Women of Collin County
Monday April 26th -Andrea White is our guest speaker. White is an author, blogger, community activist and Passionate Supporter of her husband Bill White, Democratic Candidate for Governor of Texas. More info here. (6:45 PM, Preston Ridge Campus of Collin College, 9700 Wade Blvd., Frisco)
Dallas Democrats Burger Bash
Spring has sprung and we've dusted off the grills. Please join us on Tuesday, April 27, at 6 PM, for our annual Burger Bash at Dallas County Democratic Party Headquarters, 4209 Parry Avenue, Dallas, TX 75223. We'll have plenty of regular and veggie burgers with all the fixin's. This is a great way to meet fellow Democrats, elected officials and candidates. Don't miss out! A $10.00 donation per person is requested to help defray costs. To RSVP, please send an email to rebeccamontgomerydcdp AT gmail.com or call the Party office at 214.821.8331 by April 22, 2010.
Mid-Cities Democrats- Friday, May 28:Fundraiser for the Future: Bill White for Texas with Senator Wendy Davis and State Representative Paula Pierson. Hosted by the Mid-Cities Democrats. $20 ticket includes Mexican dinner and dessert. Seating is limited. Reserve tickets by email to RSVP AT midcitiesdemocrats.com. (6 - 8 PM, First United Methodist Church, 5601 Pleasant Run Road, Colleyville)
Tejano Democrats Monthly Meeting
Description: Please attend the April meeting of the Tarrant County Tejano Democrats
at the Coors Hospitality Sweet
2550 McMillian Pkwy, 76137
Location: 2550 McMillian Pkwy, 76137
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm CDT
| | Killing the Competition by Jim Hightower | | Golly, whatever happened to America's good ol', bold-and-brassy, can-do competitive drive?
To see a troubling sign for our nation's famed, free-enterprise frontier spirit, sneak a peek at the downward flight path of America's major airlines. These corporations have become no-can-do, anti-competition behemoths, whining that there are too many airlines, too many planes, too much competition.
"It's a jungle out there," wail top executives of the airlines. So, to enhance their "c ompetitiveness," they are urging a rash of mergers that would consolidate the industry into fewer and even bigger corporations. Yes, in their alternate (and perverse) universe, airline CEOs say that the only way they can compete is to ... well, have less competition!
"The industry needs to evolve into a more rational structure," asserts a top official at American Airlines. "We have an industry that is too fragmented, with too many competitors and with different ideas of capacity, pricing and strategic activity."
Hmmm. Where have we heard that before? Oh yes, from Adam Smith, the 18th century Scotish economist who is considered a founding guru of the free enterprise system. The notion of "many competitors ... with different ideas of capacity, pricing and strategic activity" is precisely what Smith hailed as the proper model for free enterprise.
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There is no liberal Rush Limbaugh By Joan Walsh
I didn't have a Sarah Palin moment when asked to name one. My silence was my answer
I'm traveling this week so blogging is light. But I'm compelled to comment on the way the right is hyping my Tuesday appearance on "Morning Joe."
First, thanks to my friends at Newsbusters. It's nice when my videos go viral. But Newsbusters and its devotees drew an awfully weird conclusion about my conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough yesterday morning.
I'm the one who posed the question: Scarborough suggested that reasonable folks on the left (that's me) and the right (that's Joe) ought to denounce the extremists in their own camp. I asked him whom he thought I should denounce, because I don't think there's anyone on the left as consistently cruel, divisive and wrong as Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. But my question wasn't merely about media: The problem on the right includes extremists who've made death threats against Democrats like Patty Murray, Bart Stupak, Nancy Pelosi and, of course, President Obama. There's no one on the left posing the same threat to leaders on the right -- or if there is, I'd like to know about it. (The whack job who threatened the folks who made the movie "Babe," along with Obama and GOP whip Eric Cantor, doesn't count.)
Read on Salon
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Cenk Uygur | Where Are the Tea Party Protests About Wall Street?
We're down to the wire here on financial reform. I can't think of a better time to put pressure on Wall Street and Washington to make sure there is adequate regulation to ensure that we never have another bailout. The AFL-CIO is about to have a protest at Wall Street on April 29th. Great, that makes sense. I'm sure the right-wing groups who are also upset ...
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Rory O'Connor | Noam Chomsky Listens to Talk Radio
Noam Chomsky tells ex-New York Times reporter Chris Hedges he has "never seen anything like this.'" "This," says the man Hedges believes is "America's greatest intellectual," is the frightening mood of the country -- "the level of anger, frustration and hatred of institutions," and the "self-destructive fantasies" that have Chomsky warning "that we have ...
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| | Texas Democratic Party Fundraiser | |  Please join Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Richie with special guest Senator Mark R. Warner and The Honorable Wendy Davis · The Honorable Royce West The Honorable Yvonne Davis · The Honorable Helen Giddings The Honorable Carol Kent · The Honorable Paula Pierson The Honorable Marc Veasey for a reception at the home of Wendy and Marc Stanley 7403 Midbury Drive
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
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| | The Most Dangerous Man in America is coming to Texas | The Most Dangerous Man in America will be shown at the following location:
Dallas, TX, Landmark Magnolia, April 30 - May 6, 2010 
Co-winner of this year's Freedom of Expression Award from the National Board of Review (and one of their Five Best Documentaries of the Year), Winner of the Special Jury Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and Academy Award® Nominee for Best Documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America tells the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, who in 1971 leaked 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, exposing decades of lies and making headlines around the world.
The film tells the riveting story of how this one man's profound change of heart created a landmark struggle involving America's newspapers, its President, and Supreme Court. The documentary features Daniel Ellsberg, Patricia Ellsberg, Tony Russo, Howard Zinn, Hedrick Smith, John Dean, and, from the secret White House tapes, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who called Ellsberg "the most dangerous man in America." | | "5 de Mayo" Multicultural Celebration in Irving | |  Senter Park Recreation Center
901 S. Senter Road, Irving, Texas 75060
Saturday, May 1st., 2010 - 9am - 3pm
Health & Educational Fair
Residents are invited to the City of Irving's annual Cinco de Mayo Multicultural Festival. The event will feature health screenings and will emphasize wellness for the entire family. Participants will enjoy music, food, arts and crafts, games for children, Mexican folklóric and other cultural dances.
Date : May 1, 2010
Time : 9 a.m. to 3 p.m
Location : Senter Park Recreation Center, 901 S. Senter Road.
In conjunction with the festival, city leaders will host a Town Hall Meeting for Spanish speakers at 11 a.m. At the meeting, residents will learn about ongoing and future city projects and initiatives. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions following the presentation. For more information, call (972) 721-2641.
| | | | | Fight On, Goldman Sachs! | | 
| | MAYBE Lloyd Blankfein was doing "God's work" after all.
When the Goldman Sachs chief executive made that tone-deaf remark to an interviewer in November, he became the butt of a million insults, the ultimate symbol of Wall Street's abdication of responsibility for its sleazy role in the Great Crash of '08. But now we've learned that Blankfein was actually, if inadvertently, on the side of the angels. It's his myopic, unrepentant truculence that left Goldman exposed to a Securities and Exchange Commission accusation of fraud that will be litigated in public rather than bought off in private. And it's that S.E.C. legal action that has, in a single week, radically transformed the politics and prospects for financial reform in America.
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| | Divorce dilemma: Texas says gays can't get divorce | | 
DALLAS - After the joy of a wedding and the adoption of a baby came arguments that couldn't be resolved, leading Angelique Naylor to file for divorce. That left her fighting both the woman she married in Massachusetts and the state of Texas, which says a union granted in a state where same-sex marriage is legal can't be dissolved with a divorce in a state where it's not. A judge in Austin granted the divorce, but Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is appealing the decision. He also is appealing a divorce granted to a gay couple in Dallas, saying protecting the "traditional definition of marriage" means doing the same for divorce.
A state appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments in the Dallas case on Wednesday.
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| | Five EPA Region 9 Metro Area Cities Rank Among Top 25 in Nation for Most Energy Efficient Buildings | | 
News release: "US EPA released a list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest number of energy efficient buildings that earned EPA's Energy Star in 2009. The list is headed by Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Lakeland, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta and New York. Five of the cities ranked on the list are located in EPA's Pacific Southwest Region. Energy efficiency saves building owners money and fights climate change."
o View a list of the Top 25 Cities in 2009 with Energy Star labeled buildings
o Access EPA's real-time registry of all Energy Star labeled buildings 1999-present
o Learn more about earning the Energy Star for commercial buildings
SEE HERE
| | You Don't Know Jack -HBO | | 
The Real Jack
Michigan native Dr. Jack Kevorkian discusses having a movie made about his life and the cast shares what it was like to represent the world of such a controversial figure.
Airing on HBO Now
See trailer and info here
See Jack Kevorkian on Bill Maher
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