Tag: iraq
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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August 02, 2006 03:11 PM EDT --
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all . . .
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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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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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May 16, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
I tend to work for a long time on my blog posts before posting them, often deleting half-baked efforts that haven't worked out. So I hope you'll forgive some thinking out loud, some extremely tentative . . .
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August 19, 2006 11:27 AM EDT --
Via 3quarksdaily, I see that there is now a renewed call to boycott Israeli cultural institutions to protest the occupation of Palestine:
We call upon the International community to join us in the boycott . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 07, 2007 05:34 PM EDT --
The front-runner in the Democratic presidential primary is -- rather unexpectedly -- Richard Nixon.
What do I mean by that? I mean simply this: the Democrats will most likely run a candidate who claims . . .
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November 08, 2006 06:08 PM EST --
• The "Revolution of 2006" is not a term I've yet heard, although I'd be astonished if I were actually the first to use it. But calling change-of-party elections "revolutions" . . .
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