Tag: us politics
member name: Stephen Frug
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December 13, 2006 09:25 PM EST --
I've got a whole pile of exams to grade, so this will be quick, but John McCain is introducing legislation that will hamper the ability of blogs to function, in particular blog "communities" . . .
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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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August 18, 2005 05:03 PM EDT --
There's an argument against Intelligent Design creationism that I've not seen anyone make yet. (It's . . .
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August 09, 2005 01:04 AM EDT --
I do not believe that George W. Bush stole the 2004 election.
But what I want to examine in this essay is why I don't believe that. The answers are not encouraging.
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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 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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June 07, 2006 03:26 PM EDT --
So the Whip Up the Bigots Amendment -- er, I mean, the Marriage Protection Amendment -- has gone down to its expected defeat today, with the vote on whether or not they should vote (doncha just love Senate . . .
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June 25, 2006 01:14 PM EDT --
"Our children, grandchildren, and many more generations will bear the consequences of choices that we make in the next few years."
That's a quote from an essay on global warming in the New . . .
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July 18, 2006 04:00 PM EDT --
This essay (and letter translation) (via) is a very interesting riposte to recent attempts to argue that Leo Strauss was just a misunderstood promoter of democracy. I haven't read Strauss, so I don't . . .
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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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September 06, 2006 11:57 AM EDT --
The arguments against supporting Hillary Clinton (our esteemed junior Senator here in New York) to be the Democratic nominee for 2008 are manifold, various and overwhelming. There is the fact that she . . .
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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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