Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2843
June 18, 2010
Will The GOP Mellow?
Ambers predicts:
Whatever Romney's difficulties in dealing with his Massachusettshealth care plan will be, he seems intent on running as the candidateof pragmatic solutions in 2012. Daniels, with his call for a truce ondivisive social issues, wants the same thing. Clearly, Romney andDaniels don't fit the profile of what today's average Republicanprimary voter is looking for, but they probably will: I anticipate thatthe overwhelming concern of 2012 primary voters will be a desire to,well, beat...
The Cambridge Cops
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Nathan Baca: Journalist
This is what the MSM failed to do to another FNC-style candidate. It's called journalism - which is not accepting the terms upon which public figures running for election can answer questions, but demanding answers to tough questions until the candidate answers them or, in Angle's case, simply runs away.
A reporter can be confrontational if equally polite, as Baca was. And I'm not sure he's interested in getting invited to a Sharron Angle water-pistol party.
Journalism - Media ...
Testing Epistemic Closure, Ctd
The joy of being Mark Steyn is never conceding error. Here's his response:
Conor Friedersdorf demolishes our argument by pulling up yellowing Times thumbsuckers from ten years ago about "honor killings" in the Arab world, Turkey, Pakistan - and, eventually, Berlin.
I think Friedersdorf, in his usual pedantic way, has not refuted my point but reinforced it: The Times wasmore enthusiastic about covering "honor killings" when they were wayout on the fringes of the map and could be used for a...
A Derb Classic
America may have met its match down there in the Gulf. Nature is not
mocked," - John Derbyshire.
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BP-Love From The Right
"Why should Barton apologize? I mean "why" not in the prudential, career-saving, ass-covering sense. From that point of view, his retraction makes perfect sense. But if you ask "why" in the larger sense of disinterested inquiry, it's hard to know what to say. Joe Barton was right. The White House was, and still is, engaged in a shakedown, "a piece of extortion," exacting as high a price as possible from a private company in an effort to garner some PR brownie points (and a lost of cash). It i...
Oil "Addiction"
Steven Taylor tosses the metaphor in the rubbish bin:
Fossil fuels, for all their problems, produce a huge amount of benefit in ways that dependence on drugs or alcohol do not. Our dependence on oil is not like an addiction to a drug, but
it is more like our need for blood in our circulatory systems or
in our respiratory systems. We aren't giving up either
something just as efficacious is going to take their places....I do understand what the shorthand being deployed...
Towards A Hundred Hong Kongs, Ctd
Laura Freschi won't be jumping on the charter cities bandwagon:
These ideas share an overly-optimistic belief in a neutral,benevolent international community and its power to peacefully overseeimposed changes. All are tone-deaf to the very real degree ofnationalism that does exist in basically all countries by now,regardless of whether they were misbegotten colonial creations or not.They also violate sovereignty as conventionally defined, which may begood or bad but is sure to provoke a...
Doctors, Not Gods
Atul Gawande gave the commencement speech at Stanford's School of Medicine. A taste:
The truth is that the volume and complexity of the knowledge thatwe need to master has grown exponentially beyond our capacity asindividuals. Worse, the fear is that the knowledge has grown beyond ourcapacity as a society. When we talk about the uncontrollable explosionin the costs of health care in America, for instance—about the realitythat we in medicine are gradually bankrupting the country—we're...
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