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August 4, 2010
The Cordoba Mosque - And Conservatism
This is a defining moment - not just for America but for conservatism as a political philosophy. The campaign to prevent the construction of a Muslim interfaith center two blocks from Ground Zero strikes me as so dangerous in its assumptions, so pernicious in its bigotry, and so dangerous in the war on terror that it needs to be repudiated as swiftly and as powerfully as possible. It is as antithetical to the principles on which this country was founded as the importation of torture into t...
Why Not?
Hitch writes about his cancer:
In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowinglyburning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives alovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smitingmy brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair:I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in mydirection and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banalthat it bores even me. Rage would be beside the point...
The Amen Chorus
Sarah Palin - Facebook - Social Networking - Online Communities - Slate
Putting Sarah On The Couch
Arianna Huffington psychoanalyzes Palin:
It's not Palin's positions people respond to -- it's her use ofsymbols. Mama grizzlies rearing up to protect their young? That'sstraight out of Jung's "collective unconscious" -- the term Jung usedto describe the part of the unconscious mind that, unlike the personalunconscious, is shared by all human beings, made up of archetypes,or, in Jung's words, "universal images that have existed since theremotest times." Unlike personal experiences, these...
The GOP's Fiscal Fraudulence
Clive Crook's succinct summary:
Paul Ryan is a good thing, and his Roadmap is very interesting. He
grappling with specific proposals, and his plan for
entitlement reform deserves a serious look. Note, though, that
plausible assumptions, it is not a deficit-reducing proposal
would fall even more than spending.More to the point, the party is not backing Ryan's proposals. Ifconservatives who say, "Don't raise taxes, cut spending," were willingto contemplate Ryan's...
Quote For The Day
"In the mid-1650s, the small Jewish community living in lower Manhattan petitioned Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant for the right to build a synagogue, and they were turned down. In 1657, when Stuyvesant also prohibited Quakers from holding meetings, a group of non-Quakers in Queens signed the Flushing Remonstrance, a petition in defense of the right of Quakers and others to freely practice their religion. It was perhaps the first formal political petition for religious freedom in the...
The Prop 8 Decision, Ctd
Bmaz at Emptywheel is expecting a win for the plaintiffs:
Walker is very detailed and very smart and crafty.
He will lock in and protect his decision to every extent he can, and
trust me Walker is very good at this. One of the best I have ever seen.
Ted Olson, David Boies, Plaintiffs Perry et. al and fans of
Constitutional equality everywhere could not ask for anything more.
We'll know this afternoon.
David Boies - California Proposition 8 - Ted Olson - United States - Gay...
Climbing The Ladder
Dylan Matthews looks at American income mobility:
The U.S. does not come out the worst here; Italy and Great Britain have
sharper class divisions than we do. But most other countries do
substantially better. This includes not just Scandinavian social
democracies like Denmark, Norway, and Finland (Sweden, curiously, does
a bit worse) but Anglophone states such as Canada and Australia, with
which the U.S. has much more in common.
Finland - Denmark - Great Britain - Australia - Cana...
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