Andrew Sullivan on Obama Presidency | Radical, Practical New Environment Proposal | Karen Santorum's Hypocrisy
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Andrew Sullivan is not a liberal, no matter what you read on conservative websites. Writing How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics, Sullivan sums up AOC’s relationship with President Obama.
I write this as an unabashed supporter of Obama from early 2007 on. I did so not as a liberal, but as a conservative-minded independent appalled by the Bush administration’s record of war, debt, spending, and torture. I did not expect, or want, a messiah. I have one already, thank you very much. And there have been many times when I have disagreed with decisions Obama has made—to drop the Bowles-Simpson debt commission, to ignore the war crimes of the recent past, and to launch a war in Libya without Congress’s sanction, to cite three. But given the enormity of what he inherited, and given what he explicitly promised, it remains simply a fact that Obama has delivered in a way that the unhinged right and purist left have yet to understand or absorb. Their short-term outbursts have missed Obama’s long game—and why his reelection remains, in my view, as essential for this country’s future as his original election in 2008.
Sullivan is far more articulate about why President Obama should be re-elected than his own team. This piece is a worthy read.
Environmental Miracle?
Viktor KoenThe current issue of Science contains a proposal to slow global warming and it’s getting people’s attention. John Tierney writes for NYT the proposal is based on a promise that is heresy among some environmentalists. The proposal — created by an international team of researchers — asks if the world can take positive action without forcing people to use less fossil fuel, especially in a global economic recession. The focus is on reduced carbon, methane.
“The beauty of these pollution-control measures is that over five to 10 years they pay for themselves in the developing world,” says Drew Shindell, the lead author of the proposal, who is a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and at Columbia University.
Ted Nordhaus, a founder of the Breakthrough Institute, has endorsed a similar measures in a report called “Climate Pragmatism.” Mr. Nordhaus sees the Science paper as a model for the future.
AOC Gender Politics
Karen Santorum’s Big Surprise
Karen Garver Santorum lived through most of her 20s in a five-six year relationship with Tom Allen, a Pittsburgh obstetrician and abortion provider 40 years older than she. Allen founded the Magee-Women’s Hospital in Pittsburgh and was an internationally recognized advocate for women’s reproductive health.
The young woman’s father was a pediatrician and many of his patients were referred to him by Allen. Karen Garver left Tom Allen after meeting new love Rick Santorum. Karen apparently changed career courses from nursing to pursue her future as a lawyer. Garver met her future husband as an intern at Rick Santorum’s law firm.
The Karen Santorum revelation is just one more story about social conservatives unveiling the hypocrisy of their private lives. And while I do support the right and reality of both women and men evolving in their views, Karen Garver Santorum suddenly reads like one more example of a stridently-conservative person with an unsavoury past, when contrasted to her extreme principles.
Bro. Solomon on Deborah Prophetess & Judge
The Person of Deborah Prophetess and Judge
Note: Bro. Solomon has joined Bro Dennis in writing for AOC.
Although Barak will lead Israel in battle, the glory of victory will not be his. YHWH has decided to use women throughout this episode of judges to bring about liberation for Israel, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman” (Judg. 4:9-10). The glory of course will be Deborah’s and Jael’s since they are truly the women who will accomplish the victory, “ The references to Sisera’s death at the hand of a woman states a number of principles in no uncertain terms. By stating that no glory will come to Barak because he would die at the hand of a woman, the text highlights what women should not be doing in the story where they did it.” [7]
Anne of Carversville
Phillipa Gleeson | Simone Pomposi | Kurv Winter 2011 | Ghosts of Flappers Past
AOC Private Studio
Kendra Spears | Giampaolo Sgura | Vogue Paris February 2012 | ‘Prenom Carmen’
Michelle Williams | MIchael Thompson | GQ February 2012
Laurie Bing | James Mills | The Creatives
Cathrine Nørgaard | Amanda Camenisch | Friday December 2011 | The Beauty And The Beast
AOC Style
Lee Ji Yeon | Kim Youngjun | Singles Korea December 2011 | Snowy Fairytale
AOC Apple Valley
Ji Hyun Jeong | Kim Youngjun | Singles Korea January 2012 | Rising Sun Full Moon
Milly Simmonds | Cécile Bortoletti | L’Officiel Paris December 2011/January 2012 | Mafia Princess
AOC Body
Bro. Dennis on Ultra-Orthodox, Fundamentalist, Extreme Moralists as ‘Evil Incarnate’ | 2Ps in a Pod
Anne’s ‘Movement’ There are “Movements” around the globe that have brought effective change. One example is the Solidarity Movement, among many. Fundamentally a Movement is the motion within us, based on truth and goodness that spontaneously leads us to freedom in collaboration with others who are seeking reform. Your blog is such a “movement”.
A friend of mine read your your most recent sharing, and this was his response:
I must say, that my heart heaved in sorrow as I read Anne’s essay and response to your message! As I read through her thoughts I felt a culpability at first for simply being male… this melted away to a sense of celebration for her discovery of her true essence within her human, woman experience. This type of esteem is a product of what I have called “Christ Esteem…” it has nothing to do with my valuation of myself, rather it has its root in the awareness or awakening to the immense and saving love of Jesus for us. That awareness gives us buoyancy in our day, and a lens through which to see the true nature of both men and women. Behavior is different than nature. To be—is different than—to do! We are human BE-ings…oh that we could see and live and do according to the Truth which love has written in our hearts… John Piselli, husband and father of four boys.
