Tag: bush
member name: Stephen Frug
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October 02, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
Given the incalculable damage that the Republican party has done to our Republic in recent years, I share the grim cheer of all people of good will about the recent Foleygate scandal. (Ongoing coverage . . .
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April 01, 2007 05:41 PM EDT --
While I was off reading the NYT on health care, the entire liberal blogosphere (& beyond) has been talking about today's NYT interview with Mathew Dowd (who was Bush's 2004 campaign strategist) . . .
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June 01, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Quoth Drum: "[T]he Bush administration has, for the past four years in Iraq, been busily building permanent military bases the size of small towns to go along with an embassy compound more suited . . .
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July 12, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
Via Andrew Sullivan, Jane Galt says that it was right to impeach Nixon and not Bush in part since
Nixon fell because his behaviour was inarguably criminal, and worse, petty criminal. And he had it all . . .
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October 19, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
Not every crime is done out of evil motives.
Some people would go so far as to say that nothing, really, is done out of evil motives: that people always act out of an idea of the good, and sometimes they're . . .
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October 09, 2006 12:57 PM EDT --
By way of extending a warm welcome to the newest confirmed member of the nuclear club, a quote fugue in the keys of Josh Marshall and Glenn Greenwald, with occasional grace notes from elsewhere.
For the . . .
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January 28, 2007 02:34 PM EST --
I just read Martha Stout's 2005 book The Sociopath Next Door (SND). It's a very quick read -- I went through it in a couple of hours, although I admit that I was exercising my right to skim, particularly . . .
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February 13, 2007 01:46 AM EST --
In his new digs at Obsidian Wings, in a post about the recent Marcotte/Edwards to-do, Publius wrote the following:
The issue is that Edwards would give the appearance of caving in to right-wing pressure. . . .
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October 02, 2007 02:23 PM EDT --
It's a staple of the Buffyverse, and so many other fantasy/horror/etc genre pieces: a villain needs to kill someone -- often an innocent -- to gain power, to complete some demonic ritual, or simply . . .
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April 24, 2007 02:22 PM EDT --
Yesterday at ThinkProgress there was a story about an op-ed by Army Sgt. Jim Wilt asking "Why don’t we honor our fallen servicemembers?" Noting that President Bush ordered flags lowered . . .
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June 16, 2006 04:14 PM EDT --
Now that's a sentence that (I suspect) everyone who's ever met me would've bet they'd never see me write -- and one which, with a few possible exceptions (hi, Uncle John!), they would all . . .
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September 01, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
From tomorrow's New York Times:
Bush told the author, Robert Draper, in a later session, "I'm playing for October-November." That is when he hopes the Iraq troop increase will finally . . .
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September 18, 2006 04:09 PM EDT --
Sam Harris, in the old formulation which Isaiah Berlin borrowed from Archilochus, is a hedgehog. That is, he knows one big thing -- or, to put it another way, he has a tendency to view everything through . . .
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June 28, 2006 02:38 PM EDT --
Some of those of us on the left have been teetering on the edge of Godwin's law for some time now, as we attempt to describe the current politics without saying that the current party is, well, like . . .
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May 29, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
There's a great little fifteen minute animated film, to which I've already seen several links, and to which I expect to see many more -- and for good reason: it's terrific. Kevin Drumm describes . . .
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August 28, 2007 05:18 PM EDT --
So Alberto "Fredo" Gonzales -- serial perjurer, underminer of the constitution and abettor of torture -- has resigned.
On what the Democrats must do next: what Glenn Greenwald said. I'm . . .
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November 04, 2006 04:54 PM EST --
A glance at the list of articles I have published on Gather will demonstrate that I am interested in politics. Yet in the past two weeks, I have posted about inconsistencies in literature and religion, . . .
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October 20, 2006 05:18 PM EDT --
We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides, declare not merely any non-American citizens "Unlawful Enemy Combatants" and ship them somewhere . . .
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September 11, 2007 05:40 PM EDT --
Six years ago today.
It is always tempting to turn the dead into a symbol, because it allows us to avoid, in some small way, the actual death by focusing on something else. Death means gone, vanished, . . .
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September 11, 2006 03:25 PM EDT --
I wanted, and hoped, to write something to mark today's anniversary. But the press of time and circumstance has not allowed me to do so. So I thought I would post something I wrote a year . . .
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