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President Obama , at the Jan. 12 memorial for victims of the mass shooting in Tucson , Ariz , urged the nation to move beyond finger-pointing to healing, constructive conversation. How do you do that? Laura Chasin, founder of The Public Conversations Project , an organization that helps individuals, organizations, and communities converse constructively on issues of conflict, offers pointers for breaking the argument habit. - Monitor staff • Develop the courage and savvy to overcome the seductions of polarizing language.
Four ways to kick the partisan habit - Be aware of polarizing language - CSMonitor.com
The Obama administration's proposed spending freeze promises to reduce certain categories of government spending over the next decade by $400 billion. This is a bad idea. It will cut not fat, but muscle. It will leave our country worse off. So why cut important spending instead of scrapping unnecessary excess? The fat is jealously guarded by Senators from states with small populations.
Washington's deficit-hawk pretenders - The Week
I can't believe my best friend is a Republican - Life stories - Salon.com
At 36, I had been preoccupied by my age, and this didn’t help. I’d been looking at every woman’s neck to see when the accordion stretch of the chin would kick in. Could I stave it off a few more years? Had I blown it by not being skinny, so that I couldn’t later gain five pounds to smooth out my wrinkles? But it wasn’t just about my appearance.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: This week the House of Representatives passed, largely along party lines, a bill that would bar public radio stations from using federal money to buy national programming from NPR or other sources. It was called a political stunt by one House Democrat. Another sponsored an unsuccessful amendment to bar the government from buying ad time on FOX News.
On The Media: Transcript of "Does NPR Have A Liberal Bias?" (March 18, 2011)
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