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Pat Robertson on judges and Al Qaeda
I’m sure others have linked to this, but I can’t let it go by without noting it for the record: Federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Rev. Pat Robertson claimed yesterday. “Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that’s
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From the up is down file: Bush vs. Myers on military capacity
President Bush at his press conference: Q: Do you feel, as you are confronting these problems, the number of troops you’ve left tied up in Iraq is limiting your options to go beyond the diplomatic solutions that you described for North Korea and Iran? THE PRESIDENT: No, I appreciate that question. The person to ask
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News I missed: Moore to make Fahrenheit 9/11 sequel
Bad news for those who care about truth in documentary filmmaking: Michael Moore plans a follow-up to “Fahrenheit 9/11,” his hit documentary that assails President Bush over the handling of the Sept. 11 attacks and the war on terrorism, according to a Hollywood trade paper. Moore told Daily Variety that he and Harvey Weinstein, the
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The boundaries of elite debate on Social Security
Matthew Yglesias has an interesting post on Talking Points Memo taking issue with a Washington Post editorial claiming that “For the past three months Democrats have declined to engage in a debate over Social Security”: Now I’m not sure where Fred Hiatt lives, but here on the planet earth Democrats have very much been engaged
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Quoted in the Duke student newspaper
From an article in The Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper, about academic blogging here: Brendan Nyhan, a second year graduate student in the political science department, has been an avid blogger for years. He has been writing his own blog since October. Although he has considered how maintaining a blog might affect the possibility of getting
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Wall Street Journal mumbo jumbo on progressive indexing
How to pretend that Bush’s plan doesn’t cut benefits relative to current law in three short paragraphs: Democrats immediately opposed Mr. Bush’s proposal–the brainchild of Democratic financier Robert Pozen–as “big benefit cuts.” AARP lobbyist John Rother proved his organization’s lack of sincerity by calling it “an unnecessary and unfair benefit cut on the middle class.”
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Art Torres on Arnold: The worst sort of nativism
Art Torres, who chairs the California Democratic Party,
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Has Kansas become more conservative?
Writing on the blog Polysigh about Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas?, political scientist Philip Klinkner claims that Kansas has not become more conservative in recent years: Frank argues that the Sunflower State has, through conservative manipulation, shifted heavily to the right in recent decades. Again with my handy 1972 edition of the Almanac
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MoveOn PAC dissembles again on the nuclear option
From an April 20 MoveOn PAC email to supporters: This fight is about saving one of the last barriers standing between radical Republicans and total control of the American political system. That barrier, the filibuster, was created for this kind of situation: it’s designed to force the members of the Senate to find judicial candidates