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Libby Shaw has been a political activist since a college student in the 1970's. She is a proud, life long progressive Democrat who was born in NYC, lived in the Midwest, Seattle and now resides in Houston, TX where she works as an administrator for a scientific laboratory at a private academic institution. Shaw has one child, a recent college grad who lives and works in Washington, D.C. Her husband is a college professor. Hobbies include blogging, travel, non-fiction reading and politics, politics, politics. Shaw write for progressive blogs in Texas, mostly Texas Kaos and sometimes The Burnt Orange Report.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 There they go again. Those racist, sexist, anti-intellectual Republicans (7 comments)
OK, I've had it. I am so over Republican double-talk, double standards and not so thinly veiled racism, sexism and anti-intellectualism. I am completely fed up with the Republican raking of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor over the coals for ridiculous non-existent nonsense.
Friday, July 10, 2009 Compassion Free Conservatives (2 comments)
Throughout the years, from the Reagan Administration through 2008, we've heard a lot of talk about compassionate conservatism. According to conservative conventional wisdom, it is entirely possible for a state and/or federal government to be fiscally conservative without, at the same time, disenfranchising those who are economically disadvantaged and others who are vulnerable, like the children of the poor.
