Glenn Beck says we turned away from God 240 years ago–I guess “that all men are created equal,” is too secular and progressive for Mr. Beck.

Now that 1,000 American men and women have died in this long war, let us refocus our energies on ending this horrific enterprise. We need to revive the anti-war movement and challenge the bipartisan consensus in Washington that we must engage in endless warfare to no apparent end.

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger

Rampant poverty can’t be written off as the result of historical accident or a worker’s incompetence. It is actively cultivated by bad public policies that direct economic resources into the hands of a wealthy few. The resulting inequality creates unnecessary suffering all over the world, from the humanitarian crisis in Haiti to the alarmingly high poverty rate in the United States.

The nation as a whole rejoiced when the first African American was elected to office. But has President Obama failed Black Americans?

I have a sense of doom that our President will escalate the war in the Middle East. It won’t be as much as General MacChrystal is asking. This strategy goes along with Obama’s modus operandi of cautious and thoughtful faux-deliberating that ultimately aligns in substance if not degree with the corporate and military status quo. From the very beginning of his term, Obama has seemed lost to the matrix of this status quo, while periodically extending some eloquent and promising rhetoric of change.

Very few of us made any attempt to really reach out and embrace these teabaggers on the issues that we share with them. Many of their concerns about the bailout, NAFTA-style trade deals and the general loss of trust in government are core progressive issues. We could lock arms with the teabaggers and form a powerful alliance, but, instead, we attack our potential allies because we do not take the time to engage them.

Last Saturday’s anniversary of Dr. King’s anti-war speech should be an opportunity for us to break the silence on our government’s policies in Afghanistan.

We, as progressives, have been silent about Afghanistan for too long. As Dr. King said, “We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.”

An eclectic grouping of five quotes on the struggle for morality in our modern world.