Tom Sullivan
| Hometown: | Asheville, NC |
| Interests: | America's Future Now, Progressive Vision, Revitalizing Democracy |
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- March 7, 2011 - 5:02am
Eliminating public education has appeal for small-government conservatives, for libertarians opposed to policies that smack of “collectivism,” and even for the anti-secular religious right. Eliminating unions has appeal for Republicans. Public employee unions are among the few remaining large institutional competitors. But there is something else, too.
- December 28, 2010 - 3:12pm
The other day Paul Krugman related how people “just won’t believe me” when he tries to correct their misimpression of a huge expansion in government employment under the Obama administration.
- May 17, 2010 - 3:40am
A recent New York Times/CBS News poll reports that only 39 percent of Tea Party supporters consider themselves “evangelical or born again Christians.” Yet Tea Party members share several traits with born-again Christians — the evangelism, the enthusiasm and the in-your-face conviction of the newly converted.
- February 28, 2010 - 9:11pm
A recent dip into conservative drive-time talk radio raised Michael Shermer's question: Why do smart people believe weird things?
It’s not as if the conservative talk audience is all Mensa members. (Sean Hannity, at least, need not apply.) And it’s not as if the left doesn’t believe its share of nonsense.
- January 11, 2010 - 4:32am
America’s fight against terrorism is a stooge scene. Washington meets every new attack not by addressing the motives behind Islamist violence, but by adding another layer of security to infringe on Americans’ privacy and dignity.
- Commented Is it about him or us? in a discussion on Leadership (Blog entry) | December 17, 2009 - 12:40pm
- Commented I could have gone on at length in a discussion on Obama Just Ran Out Of Slack (Blog entry) | December 17, 2009 - 9:26am
- December 17, 2009 - 12:41am
The media was quick to declare the Obama honeymoon over this summer. Yet supporters exhilarated by Barack Obama’s stunning win in November 2008 were still willing to cut him a lot of slack. That slack just ran out.
- December 7, 2009 - 2:46am
"They screwed me over,” Mike said.
We were at one of those seminars where professionals earn a couple of continuing education hours over a long lunch. I hadn’t seen Mike in a few years and asked if he was still at the same company. Not since April, he said. After well over a decade the company had cut him loose.
