We on the left used to be a bit obsessed with George Bush. Myself included. But now, almost without realizing it, the President is becoming a marginalized figure. Bill Frist is leading the charge to eliminate the filibuster (and impose a theocracy on the United States). Tom Delay is (barely) holding on despite an . . . → Read More: Already Quacking
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Press critic Tom Engelhardt’s invaluable Tom Dispatchblog is featuring a story or two written by his students in the UC Berkeley journalism graduate school. The first comes from Lisa Lambert, who takes on the subject of morality among the ultra-religious right. Read the piece and try to imagine it appearing in any of the . . . → Read More: She can’t say that, can she? Yes, it’s true: Tom DeLay has the cojones to equate the Contract on America with the Magna Carta, The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. When the The Contract with America was issued in September of 1994, it presented clearly defined positions on issues of concern to the American people. It was a written . . . → Read More: Red Tom: “Contract on America = Magna Carta” I am just aghast at what conservatives are saying about Alexander Hamilton. Phyllis Shafley and others are claiming that Hamilton believed the judiciary should be the weakest of the three branches, by implication intending the courts to be passive in the face of the other two branches or popular opinion. Which is the reverse . . . → Read More: Defaming Hamilton I drove up to Vermont last weekend for my father’s birthday. On my way home Monday, driving south from Middlebury toward Albany, I turned on the car radio and listened for a couple of hours to a right-wing barrage directed against the American Constitution and the American judiciary. First up was Phyllis Schlafly, 80-year-old author of the unfortunately-named The Supremacist (subtitle: The tyranny of judges and how to stop it). She was talking to Laurie Morrow, the gushing host of True North Radio, which is broadcast every day at 11 am on WDEV Radio Vermont: L.M.: Phyllis, people do not teach civics anymore…most people today assume that the powers are ranked, that the courts are higher than the executive branch and the legislative branch. Now if I remember right, that’s NOT the case! Continue reading Eavesdropping on the American Christian Insurgency ” … nearly two years and hundreds of dead and maimed soldiers later, many troops are still riding dangerous roads in Iraq without adequate armor on their vehicles.” . . . → Read More: Pentagon still killing troops: not enough armor in Iraq Okay, I have been told that the Berube piece was a spoof. Now if I was the cowardly sort, I’d delete my previous post. But I will go ahead and take my lumps. Gulp, here goes… if that was satire, my apologies to David Brooks. See, that wasn’t so bad (where’s my seppuku….). In . . . → Read More: Joke’s On Me. In regard to the previous post by Weldon on Brooks….. Okay I’ll bite. I’ll pretend that conservatives are really reading the books that Brooks claim they are (Anaximander? Please.). I’ll pretend that this isn’t just some lame effort to give conservatism intellectual respectability, or that it’s some trick to get liberals to paint themselves . . . → Read More: Book Wars According to Brooks, an abiding love of philosophy provides those closed door GOP head-banging sessions with an ambience reminiscent of a 1920′s Cambridge dinner party. WWWD: What Would Wittgenstein Do? . . . → Read More: David Brooks: Top Ten Philosophers |
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Ain’t gonna study war no more
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has quietly scuttled the State Department’s annual terrorism survey, whichreportedly indicates that 2004 was the worst year ever in terms of terrorism incidents. And the count excludes Iraq. . . . → Read More: Ain’t gonna study war no more