There is good news in the Boston Globe today for the managers, development directors, visionaries, political hacks and propaganda flacks who run “the Progressive…
Americans might remember that when the first mad cow was confirmed in the United States in December, 2003, it was major news.…
Sheldon Rampton [1] and I [2] could see it coming soon after the Democrats took control of the Congress in 2007. In…
Shortly after the November 2006 election the Democracy Alliance, an exclusive group of about 100 Democratic Party millionaire activists, met in Miami,…
(05/24/2007) After several months of empty posturing against the war in Iraq, politicians in Washington have made what Democratic congressman James P.…
On Sunday, March 18, Sheldon Rampton and I wrote “Iraq: Why Won’t MoveOn Move Forward?”, an article now widely circulated online. It…
The most recent USA Today/Gallup poll indicates that 55% of Americans think things in Iraq are “out of control,” and a similar…
When I first picked up Denise Deegan’s book, Managing Activism: A Guide to Dealing with Activists and Pressure Groups, I imagined a…
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