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I Have a Dream: The full speech in observance of the 47th anniversary of its delivery

Getting this up 2 days after the anniversary better than not at all? We hope so…

Add comment August 30th, 2010

Bloomberg on founding principles

“There are a lot of people who’ve said things I don’t agree with. But if I want to say what I believe, I’ve got to let you say what you believe, even if I violently disagree with it and even if I find it despicable.” NYC Michael Bloomberg on Islamic Community Center in Lower Manhattan, last week on The Daily Show

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Add comment August 29th, 2010

(But there are plenty of people trying to get to the front of the parade…)

“I want just one leader to stand up. One leader who has something to lose.” –Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe (He was talking both sides of the aisle… mosque, entitlements, the whole enchilada.)

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Add comment August 23rd, 2010

So if you do Village Square, you’re civil and brilliant

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940); author

(Thanks to Queen of the Internet, Lea)

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Add comment August 7th, 2010

Wise words we’d do well to consider

Michael Gerson, former speechwriter to George W. Bush, on Face the Nation yesterday, said that too many of our political controversies today are a result of “too many Americans looking for excuses to justify their rage.” He explained:

It works because we’re a big country. We’ve got over 300 million people – if you’re an internet site or a cable network and if you set out to find an excuse, some incident to emphasize you can find one in America and run it over and over again It could be a picture at a tea party rally of a single sign or a video that had to do with the new black panthers and it makes it look like it’s a crisis of race when in fact, these are incidents in America. It exaggerates…

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Add comment July 26th, 2010

We get good panelists…

One of the many interesting things I wrote down yesterday when we met with our panelists from our June 22 event Here I am Stuck in the Culture Wars with you:

“Conflict is the doorway to intimacy.” –Brian Brown, Lead Pastor at Fellowship of the Hills Church

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Add comment June 10th, 2010

Whose fighting the culture wars (and who isn’t)

“Most adult Americans spend their daily lives working in organizations where courtesy and civility are basic presumptions of how people should interact with each other. Moreover, discussion and negotiation underlie normal decision-making processes in the organizations and institutions of civil society and the economy. Americans contrast the environments in which they live their lives with a political order dominated by activists and elected officials who behave like squabbling children in a crowded sandbox. This is another reason why Americans dislike politics: They are put off by the people who specialize in politics.” –Morris Fiorina, Culture War? (Join us for our upcoming dinner, Tuesday June 22 “Here I am, Stuck in the Culture War with You.”

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Add comment June 9th, 2010

FloridaThinks.com: Bob Graham and Chris Hand

“The issue, I think, is not big government, small government, or government is our friend, government is our enemy. It’s the much more difficult task of figuring out how in a complex society the role of government can best serve the interests of people. It’s not so much a matter of quantity as it is of quality.” –Florida Senator Bob Graham in today’s FloridaThinks, Read the interview HERE.

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Add comment June 1st, 2010