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Denutting a Will
As my colleague Bob F. comments, a beautiful takedown of a pundit who has become ever nuttier. Even if Will didn’t have his facts backward, the larger point is that his analysis of transportation choices as a cultural struggle is… Continue reading
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Learning the Difference between Neo-Liberalism and Progressivism in the Poverty Nation
There is a big difference to be made between the progressivism that once was the hall-mark of left-wing politics and the left-leaning wing of neo-liberalism. This article, focusing on how corporations–and I would add many colleges & universities–make use of… Continue reading
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There is no fiscal crisis. And macroeconomics is not a morality play.
Nice overview of how things stand vis. the “fiscal cliff.” The Puritanism that surrounds how most people talk about debt–esp. government debt–really irritates and shows the lasting influence of Christian dogmatism on our sociocultural situation. Sometimes I cannot tell if… Continue reading
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Conservative Progress & Same-Sex Marriage
I suppose in the circles that Matalin travels in, this would be considered uber-progressive. It def is a kind of progress. Republican political strategist Mary Matalin must have finally gotten the message that a growing number of Americans support marriage… Continue reading
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Demographic Maps @ Patchwork Nation
Super nice demographic maps on this site. Very well worth the time & effort to study them. As the votes from the 2012 election have trickled in, the size of President Obama’s victory has grown – it’s now more than… Continue reading
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A Liberal Moment – NYTimes.com
Still hard to believe, I told a friend the other day while trying to fathom the election results, that pot is legal in my state, gays are free to marry, and a black man who vowed to raise taxes on… Continue reading
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5 glaring contradictions that sank the GOP – Salon.com
What Obama’s win, alongside surging Democratic senators, disrupted was the dubious marriage between billionaires dying to own the government and fundamentalists dying to institutionalize universal morality. This election exploded Reaganite propaganda that “big government” is the problem by spotlighting the… Continue reading
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The Fox News & the Hedgehog Syndrome
It very well could be that I am drawing a hasty generalization. But I have been watching politics closely for 30 years. Since the 1996 campaign, I have seen an interesting phenomenon: Democrats spent a lot of time trying to… Continue reading
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I would say, “The world as seen by Boomers”…
…rather than “Republicans” since this is about a pseudo-nostalgia with a great penchant for creative memory. However, I want to be clear that I am not committing the fallacy of “equal time.” I am a progressive leaning independent who sees… Continue reading
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