“Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.” KnowsWantStatesDreamRunningSchoolAmericaInterestPartyCitiesHalfFailingSpecialStudentsMajorsShotsDemocraticIncludingAfrican AmericanDeniedAmerican DreamDemocratic PartyPublic ServiceSpecial InterestsHispanicBigotsSchool SystemInner City Author:David Horowitz
“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.” NeedsYearsIdeasStoriesEarthReligionOrderThreeHalfAtheismEventsProductsThousandMajorsArgumentMiracleClaimsIncludingOpponentsAbandonCollapseBiblicalFloodThousand YearsFossilsRelianceLiteralAssertionGenesisDistortionInvokeOf ContextCitations Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism. By concentrating on the history of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life, Heschel describes in forceful detail the Nazification of all aspects of Protestant theology, including the Aryanization of Jesus himself. This is a highly original and important contribution to our understanding of the Third Reich.” ImportantJesusUnderstandingReligiousStudyInfluenceMajorsAspectThirdsOriginalsIncludingDetailsBrilliantTheologyContributionTrendsInvestigationNaziInstituteProtestantsConcentratingAnti SemitismProtestantismReligious LifeConvergenceEruditeImportant Contributions Author:Saul Friedlander
“As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.” PeopleWorldSpiritualPovertyHeardHavensMaterialsNeededMajorsIncludingBillionsChanging My LifeMajor Change Author:David Platt
“If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.” IfsThinkingTryingForceMy OwnConditionsAnxietyMajorsIncludingContemporaryBewildermentMagical Thinking Author:Mike Young
“[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013” TwoWealthSourceMajorsPercentThirdsIncludingFinancialFundMutualAssetsHouseholdPensionMutual Fund Author:Janet Yellen
“After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope. My collaboration as a programmer and arranger with Graeme Revell exposed me for the first time to the full spectrum of film music, including the hectic demands of orchestral scoring and the power politics surrounding the finalization of any score for a major motion picture in Hollywood.” FirstsFilmMovingDemandMajorsFirst TimeHollywoodIncludingScoreLos AngelesCollaborationExposedScopeSpectrumProgrammersMotion PicturesHecticPower PoliticsFilm Music Author:Paul Haslinger
“Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others).” BelieveKindFactsReligiousNumbersFocusCenturyCommunicationPeriodsMajorsAspectDon't BelieveIncludingVariousSignificantRadicalParadoxThinker20th CenturyProposeIndirectSignificant NumbersNon Religious Author:George Pattison
“I have very deep concern about the legacy of the Rehnquist court and its efforts to restrict congressional authority to enact legislation by adopting a very narrow view of several provisions of the Constitution, including the commerce clause and the 14th Amendment. This trend, I believe, if continued, would restrict and could even prevent the Congress from addressing major environmental and social issues of the future.” IfsBelieveI BelieveSocialViewsEffortIssuesAuthorityMajorsConcernConstitutionCourtEnvironmentalIncludingCongressLegacyTrendsAmendmentsCommerceLegislationSocial IssuesProvisionVery DeepAdoptingClausesE Commerce14th Amendment Author:Dianne Feinstein
“That's why we call for a New Deal prototype. Which means we are creating the jobs - nationally funded program but locally controlled - with guidelines to achieve 100% clean renewable energy through wind, water and sun by 2030. Also to create a sustainable food system, since this is a major portion of climate emissions, and also calling for public transportation as well as infrastructure restoration including in that ecosystem restoration.” WellsMeanJobsEnergyWaterDealsSunAchieveWindCallingCreatingMajorsProgramCleanClimateIncludingControlledPortionsInfrastructureRestorationTransportationEmissionsEcosystemsRenewable EnergyGuidelinesPrototypeNew DealPublic Transportation Author:Jill Stein
“While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.” LostLossCompanyCasesFireEconomicMediaConflictMajorsAdversityCourtIncludingCreditDebtCardsRelatedEditorsPublishingStaffSurvivedCredit CardSuperpowerHardenedWikileaksDetentionUnlawfulBlockadesCourt Cases Author:Julian Assange
“The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration.” PeopleWantMayHomeMillionsHappenedDangerExampleHugeRepublicanMajorsProgramDemocratIncludingAdministrationBudgetsEmpiresNeglectExpansionBack HomeDiversionPressured Author:Ralph Nader
“I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I started to try on journalism, including doing internships and working at the campus paper, I found I actually liked it. So I started to want to be a journalist.” ThinkingWayWantShouldTryingFallFoundCareersFailingNeededPaperMajorsIncludingJournalismMaking MoneyJournalistNovelistsCampusFall BackInternships Author:Kevin Maney
“Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.” PeopleIfsEconomyPlayerModernMajorsBaseballIncludingSoccerLeagueMechanismFree MarketSalaryBaseball PlayerMajor LeagueSoccer PlayerMajor League Baseball Author:James Surowiecki
“There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what our Church teaches... We are living in a world saturated with all kinds of voices. Perhaps now, more than ever, we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us.” WorldKindVoiceChurchResponsibilityTeachConversationMajorsCriticsIncludingSaintAll KindsLatterSidelinesSaturatedLatter DaysLdsLatter Day Saints Author:M. Russell Ballard
“We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with a dreamy half smile still on her lips. I remained by her bedside. Cog would be amused by my efforts to comfort an upper. No. Not amused. Proud. I liked Ella. She was a good sort, much nicer than Trella, and I hoped she managed to survive the next thirty hours.” StillsWould BeNextHoursEffortHalfEventsProudComfortMajorsIncludingLipsAccomplishmentThirtyAmusedDreamyCogs Book:Inside Out Source: Inside Out