About Andy Hailey
Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, kid of a WWII WASP, Vet for Peace, universist, web admin, blogger - helping to expose America’s growing Authoritarianism.
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In my previous post, I reviewed the conservative and progressive worldviews from a historical and family model perspective. In this posting, I review these two worldviews according to set of critical factors and how they help define each worldview. This … Continue reading →
In my article on November 12, 2008, I discussed the need to build a progressive empathetic foundation to at least match if not surpass the well developed and obesely funded conservative single-party foundation that brought us torture, preemptive war and … Continue reading →
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Posted in Empathy
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Tagged You're on your own
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The talk of change is all around. We are seeing its potential in the transition from one president to the next. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of change that will rekindle the ideas of our founding fathers and their … Continue reading →
- Related Web Article: <a href="http://progressivespirit.com/Projects/Obama-Empathy-Video/index.htm" target="_blank" title="Video Project">Barack Obama and the New Spirit of Empathy</a>
- Recent NPR Story: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7755013" target="_blank" title="Video ">Does America Have an 'Empathy Deficit'?</a>
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff.1.html" target="_blank" title="George Lakoff's collected writings at RockRidge Institute">Other writtings by George Lakoff</a>
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Nurturant State
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Tagged You're on your own
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The following was written by Mary Vogas and is the first in her series to discuss issues with the authoritarian membership of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE). It’s time to get involved so our children will be taught … Continue reading →
- Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=913" target="_blank" title="Bradley has alienated even his fellow Republicans">Secretary of State Asked To Declare Candidate Ineligible</a>, <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=885" target="_blank" title="We have got to stop this man from dictating his personal agenda to students across Texas">State Board of Education Member Bullies Teachers and Other Board Members</a>
Posted in Authoritarianism
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The primary effort of this blog, with the help of John Dean, Robert Altemeyer, Shadia Drury, Philip Zimbardo and many others, has been about our close call with becoming a single-party state under the likes of Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, … Continue reading →
Jim normally provides the postings under Bad Deeds. Now, however, he is trying to prevent future bad deeds from the Texas State Board of Education: Would you like to be part of a statewide grassroots network of mainstream Texans who … Continue reading →
- Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=885" target="_blank" title="It was demeaning, degrading and demoralizing">State Board of Education Member Bullies Teachers and Other Board Members</a>, <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=913" target="_blank" title="Bradley has alienated even his fellow Republicans with his extremist views">Secretary of State Asked To Declare Candidate Ineligible</a>
Posted in Politics
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Senator Obama made the following during his acceptance speech on August 28, 2008: For over two decades, he’s [John McCain] subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy – give more and more to those with the most and hope that … Continue reading →
The following was provided by: Mary Vogas Volunteer for the Ewing Campaign 281-482-5423 or 281-250-8204 Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade has been asked to declare long-time State Board of Education member David Bradley ineligible to serve on the Board … Continue reading →
Labels divide us and some of our fellow Americans are unknowingly using them to help bin Laden implement his plan to destroy us. At the start of this conflict, bin Laden committed a horrendous crimial act and murdered almost 3,000 … Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/al-qaeda-supporters-endor_n_136779.html" target="_blank" title="Al-Qaida then will succeed in exhausting America ...">Al-Qaeda Supporters Endorse McCain</a>
Posted in Authoritarianism, Politics
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Tagged Helping Bin Laden
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The most important race in Texas for our students’ education is in State Board of Education District 7 between David Bradley and Laura Ewing. David Bradley is the incumbent. Mr. Bradley is in insurance for a business while Ewing is … Continue reading →
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