Sat - November 13, 2004

Bipartisan Activities to Expand the Center 


Ten things Democrats and Republicans can do to cooperate:
 

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Things you have to believe to be a Democrat today 


Note: the full text is: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." 

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Things you have to believe to be a Republican today 


Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can’t find Bin Laden” diversion. 

Posted at 04:21 p.m.     Read More   | |

Sun - November 7, 2004

Interesting Coincidence or Just Stereotype?  


As former resident of the south for 14 years, where I raised my kids up through elementary school, I always resisted the idea that the south was "different". Sure folks still remembered the War Against Northern Aggression down there, much more so than seemed reasonable, and I did encounter a very real resistance to Carpetbaggers like myself, though for the most part I personally enjoyed a waiver on that.

...Apparently the south has risen again, and it's about gotten to the point where it is calling the shots in our country. 

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Sat - November 6, 2004

The Aftermath 


She picked up on the common interpretation that the election was won by "Faith and Moral Values", by winning those who place values, notably faith-based values, above everything else.

...There are a whole lot of people who believe that giving tax cuts to the rich and a deficit to the grandkids is a matter of values. There are a whole lot who put our faith, secular and sacred, in the most religiously diverse country in the world."

...Basically, we use them to justify our preferences, and we ignore them when it suits us. Especially, we take refuge in the time-honored practice of defining our adversaries as "evil".

...We need our citizenry to be as committed to our national ideals of government as they evidently are to their diverse religious values. And above all, we need to bring to the forefront the tolerance of those diverse personal religious values. 

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Tue - October 26, 2004

Hitchens backs Kerry!  


Well, actually, it turns out that Slate got it wrong. The piece that Hitchens wrote was so obtuse that they thought perhaps it was a Kerry endorsement. In a correction, they have now listed Hitchens as having no choice of candidate. Ah well...  

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Wed - September 1, 2004

Self-Defense 


Given that Saddam is well known to be an evil wrong-doer to his own people, the calculation appears to have been that one could not go wrong in this situation by harming him, even if it turned out that he had no strategic weapons, and was not colluding with al Qaeda. 

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