Politics
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The Great Divide
What is it that really separates Democrats from Republicans? Is it a disagreement about the size of the government or of its deficits? In the last twenty-three years the Democrats have demonstrably been better at shrinking government than the Republicans have been. Does that mean that the Republicans are really the liberal spenders and the
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Scoundrels and Prigs
Nobody with any common sense believes the Warren Commission explanations for the Kennedy assassination. Nobody with any common sense believes that the reason we went into Iraq was to liberate Iraqis from Saddam's despotism. Nobody with any common sense believes that corporate education reform is about what's best for kids and not about a privatizing
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Romney v. Obama (Updated)
If Romney's elected, he probably will get along with Democrats as he did in Massachussetts. His problem, if elected President, will be that unlike in Massachussetts, he will have to deal with his own party. I think that Romney did what he needed to do in tonight's debate, which was to appeal to the undecided
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Are Teachers Obama’s Sister Souljah?
From an Audie Cornish interview with EdWeek editor Stephen Sawchuck on NPR: CORNISH: Stephen, one interesting thing about Chicago is that its former schools chief Arne Duncan was tapped President Obama to be the U.S. secretary of Education. And of course, prior to being Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel was White House chief of staff. So,
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The Democrats’ Struggle to Define the Nation’s Ethos
We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think "we're all in this together" is a better philosophy than "you're
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Moyers/Lofgren Interview
I just put this up for future reference purposes. Lofgren, who describes himself as an Eisenhower/Reagan Republican, left the party to become an independendt. In this interview he isn't saying anything that anybody with a lick of sense doesn't know already, but here's the crux: Bill Moyers: The title of your book is "The Party
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Technocratic v. Humanistic Education 1
The growing rush and the disappearance of contemplation and simplicity from modern life [are] the symptoms of a complete uprooting of culture. The waters of religion retreat and leave behind pools and bogs. The sciences . . . atomize old beliefs. The civilized classes and nations are swept away by the grand rush for contemptible
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Presidential Power in the American Kremlin
William Rivers Pitt: What galls the most, what infuriates and confounds, is the brazen clarity of the situation at hand. Mr. Obama has not been losing policy arguments to reasonable people. He has been losing policy arguments to people who are, in many instances, absolutely and unabashedly barking mad. He is losing policy arguments to
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Endless War
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war. . . . –William S. Burroughs *** We didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy. Once upon a time,