Politics

Rebranding liberalism

Talking Points Memo | A ‘progressive’ resurgence?: “… Rasmussen Reports had an interesting survey this week, which showed that when ‘liberal’ is replaced with ‘progressive,’ the broader dynamic changes significantly. According to the poll, 35% consider ‘progressive’ a positive description of a candidate, whereas 32% consider…
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Family and FriendsImportant StuffPolitics

Broken

Earlier this week my mother was hospitalized involuntarily under the provisions of a Florida Law known as the “Baker Act.” When the legal requirement for the hospital to hold her expired, and they determined that her benefits (through her health insurance) had been used up, she was shipped out to the first facility that would take her. It was an assisted living facility, which…
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Politics

McCain v. Reid - TIME

McCain v. Reid – TIME In this piece, John McCain (and the author) engages the enemy at home… the 70% of American citizens also known as “defeatists.” “He derided ‘the fanciful and self-interested debates about Iraq that substitute for statesmanship in Washington.’ And he suggested that the Democrats had decided ‘to take advantage of the…
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Current EventsPolitics

Vietnam versus Iraq

If you’re like me and you read the news in print, on the web; you listen to it on the radio, in the office; and you watch it (seldom) on TV, you may have heard comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam. Although I’m rarely reading over your shoulder, or in shouting distance while you read these entries, I can hear a few of your responses: “Please. Not another list.” “What…
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Politics

Bob Novak

I could have posted this entry several days ago, but I wasn’t sure my street cred could withstand so many references to Sunday news programs all at once. On Meet the Press Sunday morning, Tim Russert was speaking with Bob Novak about the Republican candidates’ prospects for winnng the presidential election in 2008. Mr Novak talked about the pessimism he’s heard in Republican…
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Politics

Reading between the lines

At a time when the current Republican administration is (in)famously pushing the voter fraud agenda on the Department of Justice (seemingly setting quotas for prosecutions, wether there are real cases of voter fraud to prosecute or not), I thought this press release from Project Vote was interesting: Washington, DC–Late last week, the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) published…
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Politics

Terrorists, Iraq, and the U.S. Military

Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were on Meet the Press Sunday morning to discuss Iraq. Since it is impossible for a Republican to say the word “Iraq” without “al-Qaeda” in the same sentence, I was treated to another round of “why it is important to defeat al-Qaeda in Iraq.” My head starts to hurt every time I hear a politician say we need to…
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Politics

Saying the obvious

I’ve been trying to post this entry for most of this week. Between the news, blogs, and private discussions I’ve been trying to put my finger on how I feel about the POTUS. By the way… I like saying POTUS, particularly when it comes to this president. When you stress the first syllable, with a slightly snide curling of the lips, it kind of sounds like an insult. “Shut up…
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