Archive for December, 2006
Posted in December 28th, 2006
First, I’ll be back at the latest tomorrow–holidays always throw a wrench in blogging. Second, welcome Daniel Biss to posting here at ArchPundit. I asked him some time ago to see if he’d like to blog here and he accepted and he’ll see how he likes it. I see he already has attracted good comments […]
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Posted in December 27th, 2006
As a kid, I was fairly accelerated in math. When I came home one day with a test score that was just fine but not great, my parents were pretty upset and suggested that I withdraw from the advanced course. This seemed totally bewildering to me at the time since I was comfortably passing the […]
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Posted in December 27th, 2006
Hi, there. So in the time since Larry gave me posting privileges here, all anybody’s been talking about has been the 2008 presidential race in general, and Obama’s candidacy in particular. I have pretty much nothing to say about that stuff, so I thought I’d just keep quiet until 2007, when there was actual legislation […]
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Posted in December 22nd, 2006
Michael Wilmington gives it one of the worst reviews I’ve seen and it’s pretty positive: espite that sour-sounding title, a far more heartening view of politics than ” . . . So Goes the Nation’s” can be found in this little documentary by St. Louis’ Frank Popper about a quixotic campaign by little guy Jeff […]
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Posted in December 21st, 2006
From Focus on the Family’s Citizen Link: But Linda Klepacki, analyst for sexual health at Focus on the Family Action, said the motive behind the Guttmacher report is suspect, especially given the group’s close affiliation with Planned Parenthood. “This is the condom cartel’s attempt at normalizing out-of-wedlock sexual behavior,” she said. “This is one in […]
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Posted in December 20th, 2006
For some reason the LA Times and others are into euphemisms when it comes to clear cases of private armies working against US interests. There have been no suggestions that American officials had a role in Sameraei’s escape Sunday afternoon. But the B-movie scenario of a rich businessman hiring armed muscle to bust himself out […]
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Posted in December 20th, 2006
Debbie Schlussel always makes me laugh. Many months ago, readers began asking me whether Barack Obama is Muslim. Since he identifies as a Christian, I said, “no,” and responded that he was not raised by his Kenyan father. But, then, I decided to look further into Obama’s background. His full name–as by now you have […]
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Posted in December 20th, 2006
Yearly Kos will be in Chicago. I already registered. You should too.
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Posted in December 20th, 2006
Going to see Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? over the holiday. It’ll be at Facet’s Cinematheque from Friday to the 31st and it is absolutely a must see. You can even get a brief glimpse of me tired, drunk and sunburnt. If you are interested in grassroots campaigns either from the perspective of […]
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Posted in December 20th, 2006
Unfortunately, he was blown up. Army Capt. Travis. Patriquin, 32, St. Charles, Mo., died last week when a roadside bomb blew up his vehicle in the insurgent-dominated city of Ramadi in al Anbar province. Before he was killed Capt. Patriquin wrote a Powerpoint briefing that used stick figures to explain how the U.S. could tame […]
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Posted in December 19th, 2006
Zorn addresses the Obama detractors fairly well. While there are decent criticisms of him as a candidate, much of it appears to be bizarrely misplaced anger. Rich makes a good point that I still haven’t internalized about the Rezko deal: Apparently, nobody paid attention to the Blagojevich campaign. We had the most investigated governor in […]
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Posted in December 19th, 2006
Nearly 4 years into the Iraq War. Oh, and more National Guard and Reserve Troops And $17 Billion/year to replace equipment. And how is this going to be paid for?
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Posted in December 19th, 2006
It’s changing the debate. Atrios takes issue with Obama’s rhetorical triangulation here and I just don’t see it. He references Tomasky’s review of The Audacity of Hope in the New York Review of Books. Tomasky’s review is okay, but there is one paragraph that descends into utter psychobabble crap: One can’t dismiss the possibility that […]
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Posted in December 19th, 2006
One of the suggestions from many Republicans is that this year’s election is just a freak or that things will get back to normal by 2008 when the environment will look very different. The notion that you can predict what will be the top issue in two years is often true and no majority is […]
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Posted in December 13th, 2006
Carol Marin writes a pretty good column today on gender’s effect upon getting elected–the key paragraph to me is: And just Tuesday, Thomas B. Edsall’s New York Times column pointed to what he called “disturbing” Democratic numbers. “In the 42 top-tier ‘Red to Blue’ races selected by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for intensive financing […]
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