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A Delusional Rally to Restore Sanity
Scott McLemee’s discussion on the eve of the Stewart/Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear cites some disturbing survey results from Susan Herbst’s Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in...
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The New Barbarians
Tuesday’s election will put conservatives back in power at least in the House and in many state governorships. I haven’t had time to absorb exit polls and results, but now is a good time to remind...
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So What Happened On Tuesday?
The short answer is that lots of people lost their homes, their jobs, and their security for the future. The Democrats promised to give them some relief and they didn’t deliver—the public resents that....
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A Lost Generation?
John Judis is pessimistic: What this election suggests to me is that the United States may have finally lost its ability to adapt politically to the systemic crises that it has periodically faced....
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This Is What They Get Paid For
According to the standard Washington narrative, repeated ad nauseum by commentators on cable news and the fish-wrap, was that Democrats over-reached during their time in power, passing lots of...
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Intellectual Giants
House Republicans are deciding who should be chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Apparently a leading candidate for the job is John Shimkus Republican from Illinois who thinks: (1) We don’t...
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What the People “Want”
Interpreting the results of the recent election as a mandate is not only risky but logically impossible. From Ed Kilgore: Frightened by joblessness, “the American people” rewarded the party that not...
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Do the Rich Need America?
Bill Moyers (former press secretary for Lyndon Johnson and long-time journalist) has always been an acute of observer of American politics. Moyers recent speech at Boston University neatly lays out the...
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John Tyner’s Junk
I am really unmoved by all the flap about TSA’s new screening procedures. I am especially unmoved by the much praised John Tyner. The very people who are complaining so much about intrusive pat-downs...
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Patriotism GOP Style
Republican Richard Luger, a foreign policy expert and one of the few rational Republicans left in the Senate, is urging his Republican colleagues to ratify the New START treaty. “Please do your duty to...
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A Delusional Rally to Restore Sanity
Scott McLemee’s discussion on the eve of the Stewart/Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear cites some disturbing survey results from Susan Herbst’s Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The New Barbarians
Tuesday’s election will put conservatives back in power at least in the House and in many state governorships. I haven’t had time to absorb exit polls and results, but now is a good time to remind...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So What Happened On Tuesday?
The short answer is that lots of people lost their homes, their jobs, and their security for the future. The Democrats promised to give them some relief and they didn’t deliver—the public resents that....
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Lost Generation?
John Judis is pessimistic: What this election suggests to me is that the United States may have finally lost its ability to adapt politically to the systemic crises that it has periodically faced....
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Is What They Get Paid For
According to the standard Washington narrative, repeated ad nauseum by commentators on cable news and the fish-wrap, was that Democrats over-reached during their time in power, passing lots of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Intellectual Giants
House Republicans are deciding who should be chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Apparently a leading candidate for the job is John Shimkus Republican from Illinois who thinks: (1) We don’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What the People “Want”
Interpreting the results of the recent election as a mandate is not only risky but logically impossible. From Ed Kilgore: Frightened by joblessness, “the American people” rewarded the party that not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do the Rich Need America?
Bill Moyers (former press secretary for Lyndon Johnson and long-time journalist) has always been an acute of observer of American politics. Moyers recent speech at Boston University neatly lays out the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
John Tyner’s Junk
I am really unmoved by all the flap about TSA’s new screening procedures. I am especially unmoved by the much praised John Tyner. The very people who are complaining so much about intrusive pat-downs...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Patriotism GOP Style
Republican Richard Luger, a foreign policy expert and one of the few rational Republicans left in the Senate, is urging his Republican colleagues to ratify the New START treaty. “Please do your duty to...
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