While I’ll have more thoughts about this later, one of the things to keep an eye on in the coming year(s) are advocacy movements seeking major policy changes in areas of obvious national neglect like health care, the environment, energy, water rights/distribution, etc. The reason is that I take (future President) Barack Obama at […]
Charlie Pierce has written an extremely powerful piece, “The Cynic and Senator Obama,” in this month’s Esquire. Whatever you may think of it - it’s an important criticism, made more moving by Pierce’s love for an America lost (and feared forever lost). I got there via Ezra Klein’s post, which is also well […]
Progress Illinois has a great discussion of DuPage urbanization based on this Boston Review article. I have some mixed thoughts about what’s there - but they’re certainly worth reading.
Hard to know which one is the insult and which one is the injury - you decide.
Atrios provides the first “injury” or “insult”:
“Remember back in junior high, when you had that friend that the bullies picked on all the time? And you defended that friend, who really never did all that much for you, which […]
Just got back a little while ago from Milt Rosenberg’s show. It was a great learning experience with bloggers Richard Baehr from American Thinker, Dan Johnson-Weinberger from Progressive Advocacy and Devil’s Advocate from Copious Dissent. Thanks to Mitt for having me and thanks to my fellow bloggers for the discussion.
One of the […]
[Editor Note: I’ve modified the last paragraph to correct a typo and improve clarity (new material in brackets).]
The Tribune news reporter discussion with Barack Obama on March 14th provides a decent explanation of Obama’s relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright:
“[Obama speaking]…Rev. Wright is somebody who came of age in the 60s. And so like a […]
This sentence in a New York Times article on Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney just stuck out for its absurdity:
“The Iraq war debate has given new relevance to the question of where presidential candidates stood during the Vietnam conflict — whether they were demonstrating on campus, tortured in a prison camp or trying to convert […]
Here’s a gem in this Salon story about a second religious right meeting to discuss a possible third party alternative to Rudy Giuliani:
“On Wednesday, longtime conservative leader Paul Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Foundation, published a column laying out three requirements for a successful third-party bid: major defections of elected officials from the Republican […]
TPM has a Strategic Vision poll showing Republican Mike Huckabee “surging” in Iowa at 12% for third place (margin of error +/- 4 points). With U.S. Senator Sam Brownback bowing out of the Republican primary, Huckabee is well-positioned to climb at least a few more points if Brownback supporters go to Mike, a logical […]
From Catholics-United:
“Catholics United will launch a radio advertising campaign targeting ten members of Congress whose opposition to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) have compromised their pro-life voting records.
The ads, which feature a mother urging her Congressional Representative to support SCHIP, will primarily air on Christian and talk radio stations from Monday Oct. 15 […]
