Showing posts with label leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leadership. Show all posts
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Lions' Dens Are Not Comfortable Places for Humans: A Post-Trial Report on Psychopaths and Those Who Prop Them Up

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4 in 5 white evangelicals, 3 in 5 white Catholics and Mormons — "pro-life" voters — brought us the Trump nightmare. I will no...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Father Tom Doyle on Catholic Bishops' "Imagined Leadership" and the Real Leaders in the Abuse Crisis

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Longtime advocate for abuse survivors and whistleblower re: the Catholic abuse crisis Father Tom Doyle, writing in today's (email...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Joan Chittister on Leadership: Three Foundational Stories

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Maybe by posting a tidbit, a mere crumb, from Joan Chittister's May 2012 baccalaureate address to Standford graduates, which Mich...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Bethune-Cookman University under Leadership of Trudie Kibbe Reed: The Role of the Southern Association of Colleges

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To add to what I wrote yesterda y about Bethune-Cookman University and the recent resignation/retirement of its president Trudie Kibb...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Stephen Kaus on the Democrats' Independents-Wooing Strategy: Pre-Settling and Standing for Nothing

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Leadership San Francisco attorney Stephen Kaus on why he may well sit out the 2012 federal election: the "political Einsteins...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Andrew Sullivan on Obama's Budget: Too Weak, Cautious, Beholden to Politics to Lead

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I'm interested in Andrew Sullivan's response to Mr. Obama's budget, which Sullivan entitles "Obama to the Next Generation...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on President Obama's Response to Egypt: Failure to Lead

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A brief postscript to my two previous postings about the Egyptian revolution--the first reflecting on the inconsistent way in which the Amer...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Newsweek on Obama's Moral Cowardice: Find Principles!

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    Jacob Weisberg’s latest op-ed piece in Newsweek is rightly gaining attention around the internet.  Weisberg decries the moral cowardic...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Top Democratic Consultant Excoriates Obama Administration's Cowardice re: Gay Rights

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As more Republicans (Ted Olson, Ken Mehlman, John McCain's former campaign manager Steve Schmidt) argue that support for gay rights an...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

Glenn Greenwald on Faux Rage of Tea Party: A Script Written by the Rich, Promoted by Republicans, Enabled by Spineless Democrats

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And, as a postscript to what I just posted about who is pulling the strings of tea partiers (and their Catholic hierarchical fellow-travel...
Monday, August 23, 2010

In the News: Mr. Obama Needs to Take a Stand

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A persistent theme in the news today: Mr. Obama needs to take a stand, articulate his philosophy of leadership and identify his core princ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Ted Olson Defends "Ground-Zero Mosque"

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For readers who haven't yet read this news: Ted Olson, the former Solicitor General under George W. Bush and one of the two brilliant...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

MoDo on Obama's Walk-Back of Mosque Comments: The President Fumbles Again

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Meanwhile (linking to what I have just posted about U.S. churches and the bogus "ground-zero mosque" controversy: Maureen Dowd at ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Glenn Greenwald on President Obama's Defense of Ground-Zero Mosque: Pure Praise

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Glenn Greenwald on Mr. Obama's principled leadership in defending the ground-zero mosque: It was Michael Bloomberg who first stood u...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Aaron Belkin on Pentagon DADT Survey: Everything Turns on Leadership

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Aaron Belkin at Huffington Post, offering a sane assessment of the Pentagon survey asking troops how they'd feel about showering with a...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Michael Signorile on Gays as the Canaries in the Coal Mine of Obama Administration

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Michael Signorile at Salon , noting how the erosion of Mr. Obama's base, which has resulted in the loss of Ted Kennedy's Massachuse...

William Greider on Obama's Wake-Up Call: Monumental Miscalculations Led to Massachusetts Debacle

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More good commentary about what the Massachusetts senatorial defeat portends for the Obama administration. I’m particularly impressed toda...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Democratic Stronghold Goes Republican, After Huge Mandate for Change: A Personal Response

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The Massachusetts special election has, as expected, given the Senate seat held for almost half a century by longtime health-care reform adv...
Monday, October 12, 2009

When Things Fall Apart: Blogging Through Crisis (Even in Pajamas)

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I’ve fallen behind with notices about the many welcome comments that have appeared on this blog in the past two days—most of them in respons...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Putting the Genie Back Into the Bottle: Mr. Obama Speaks of Health Care as Moral Imperative

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And speaking of the health care situation, I highly recommend Glenn Greenwald’s incisive analysis at Salon earlier this week. It’s the bes...