A collection of opinionated commentaries on culture, politics and religion compiled predominantly from an American viewpoint but tempered by a global vision. My Armwood Opinion Youtube Channel @ YouTube I have a Jazz Blog @ Jazz and a Technology Blog @ Technology. I have a Human Rights Blog @ Law
Thursday, May 31, 2012
The Last Word: Rewriting Newts defense of birtherism
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Rachel Maddow: Dark money in campaigns: unlimited, untraceable, unaccountable
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Rachel Maddow: Mitt Romney unashamed to exploit birtherism
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Hardball: Voter ID hurdle emphasizes importance of voting rights
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Hardball: The trials and tribulations of a Romney-Trump alliance
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Report: US Has One Of The Highest Child Poverty Rates In The Developed World
The Last Word: Romney tries to rewrite ‘civil rights’
The Last Word: Voter purges happening in Florida?
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The Last Word: Romney rakes in cash with birther Donald Trump
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Melissa Harris-Perry: Are charter schools the answer to education reform?
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: Desegregation and making schools work
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Friday, May 25, 2012
The Last Word: Of Mitt Romney and morality
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Rachel Maddow: Measuring the impact of Obamas marriage equality endorsement
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Rachel Maddow: Gaffe count grows as Romney takes on education
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Rachel Maddow: A test of the Washington press corps
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Rachel Maddow: A bad week for birthers
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Rachel Maddow: Dick Cheney poised to influence another presidency
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Rachel Maddow: NAACP president speaks out on equality for homosexuals
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Melissa Harris-Perry: NAACP endorses marriage equality in historic decision
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Obama’s Journey to Reshape Afghan War - NYTimes.com
This is a very interesting take on the the evolution of Presideng Obama's thinking on both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Unlike his predecessor he has adjusted his goals and strategies based upon the information he was receiving from the field. He narrowed his goals and prepared and exit strategy.
John H. Armwood
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Melissa Harris-Perry: FEMA funding and a former US traitor
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Melissa Harris-Perry: Republicans distancing from party fringes on Rev. Wright - Melissa Harris Perry conducts an intelligent discussion concerning the distortion surrounding the prophetic preaching of Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation Theology with her panel. This discussion is a must watch for those who really want to hear what Reverend Wright actually said, which anyone, who has actually read the Bible, would clearly recognize as being central to Biblical teaching.
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Monument in Palisades Park, N.J. Honoring World War II Korean Comfort Women, Irritates Japanese Officials - NYTimes.com
Japan needs to face up to it's history of imperialism and human rigjts abuses. It's dastardly crimes against the people of Asia are part of it's past. Unlike Germany, Japan was not forced by the victorious Allies after World War II to atone for it's crimes against humanity. This was largely due to the fear of Japan succumbing to the spreading wave of communism in Asia after Mao Tse Tung's victory in the Chinese Civil War.
The legacy of the forced prostitution of Korean women is real. Japan should be loudly criticized, in the world community, for after sixty years still stubbornly refusing to acknowledge it's past. Acknowledging this history is an important step in preventing such atrocities from occurring in the future.
There are still comfort women alive today. They never received reparations for their forced sexual slavery. Japan,incredulously still maintains that these women volunteered to be serially gang raped by Japanese soldiers. Their legacy of suffering must be memorialized around the world. This must never happen again.
John H. Armwood
Friday, May 18, 2012
Are the rich America's job creators? Mitt Romney is running on his record as a really rich guy who created lots and lots and lots of jobs. How many? That depends on when you ask, but for the sake of sanity let's just say he claims lots. But back in March at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conference in Long Beach, California attendees heard something wonktastically different. Nick Hanauer, one of the founding investors of Amazon gave an eyebrow-raising talk that casts quite a bit of doubt on Mitt Romney's biggest campaign asset — that the rich are super-awesome at creating jobs. Watch Hanauer's remarks in the clip above and catch the Amazon co-founder tonight in a Last Word exclusive.
The Last Word: Planned super PAC attack against Obama
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
U.S. News - Trayvon Martin killed by single gunshot fired from 'intermediate range,' autopsy shows
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Hardball: Debating same-sex marriage, separation of church and state
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Hardball: House stalls on Violence Against Women Act
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Hardball: May 14: ‘President Obama Going on offense!’
msnbc video: A tale of two commencements
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msnbc video: The Golden Girl endorsement
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msnbc video: Rewriting Romneys Christian pandering
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Psychological Profile of Liberals
"Just by virtue of their ideological stance, liberals can tolerate difference, they can tolerate not knowing, wondering ‘it could be this, it could be that.’ They can tolerate someone saying, ‘you’ve got it wrong.’ Liberals are just more open to all of that. It’s less of a problem, it’s less of a concern. They’re much more open to compromise, more open to experience—what would otherwise be threatening to people would not be as threatening because of their ideological disposition."
- Scott Eidelman, a social psychologist at the University of Arkansas
Mooney, Chris (2012-03-22). The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality (Kindle Locations 1831-1833). John Wiley and Sons. Kindle Edition.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Rand Paul: Obama's Views On Marriage Couldn't 'Get Any Gayer' - Rand Paul, the Senator who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 during his 2010 campaign, loke his father Ron expresses the same bigotry in gay marriage. The racist is almost always a homophobe and a misogynist. The same ignorance informs their mindset.
Melissa Harris-Perry: Religious push-back to Obama’s support of same-sex marriage - Both Billy and his son Franklin Graham represent what is worst in evangelical Christianity, bigotry, ignorance, intolerance and a love for power and money.
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Melissa Harris-Perry: What Obamas evolution on same-sex marriage means for the country - Melissa Harris-Perry: What Obamas evolution on same-sex marriage means for the country -Melissa Harris Perry deals with the false assumptions expressed in the media that posit that African Americans are some how more homophobic than there white brethren. This of course is nonsense. African American churches have rarely stooped to the science denying ignorance of the dominant cultures evangelical brethren and the plain old fashioned bigotry that underlies their Calvinist theology.
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msnbc video: Obama evolves full circle on gay marriage
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Up w/ Chris Hayes: The history of the LGBT movement
Up w/ Chris Hayes: Urvashi Vaid: ‘Still a great deal of negative feeling’
Up w/ Chris Hayes: Coming out in support of gay marriage
PoliticsNation: Rep. Lewis continues fight for voting rights
PoliticsNation: Woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing warning shot
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PoliticsNation: Video reveals Walker’s ‘divide and conquer’ strategy
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Rachel Maddow: Romneys gayest week leads to Falwells Liberty University
Friday, May 11, 2012
Jacksonville, Florida Attorney Janet Johnson on HLN Talking about Marissa Alexander - YouTube
Marissa Alexander sentenced to 20 years in prison - Stand Your Ground applies in Florida as long as you do not look like Marissa Alexander who fired a gun into the ceiling, did not hit anyone and was sentenced today to twenty years. And some people claim America is a just nation?
Rachel Maddow: Inappropriate laughter calls Romney sincerity into question
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The Last Word - Rewriting the history of marriage, After President Obama's historic announcement that he supports marriage equality, opponents are trying to rewrite the history of the institution saying it's always been one man and one woman.That's hasn't always been the case. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell corrects the record in the Rewrite.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Hardball: Matthews: How long will it take to grant equality?
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