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Showing posts with label Conservatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservatives. Show all posts
Monday, March 03, 2008

Beatifying Bill Buckley

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It is no disrespect to the memory of a remarkable man to marvel at the efforts of disciples he left behind to elevate him to conservative s...
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Friday, January 04, 2008

Second Commandment and Amendment

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To go all the way to the nomination, Mike Huckabee will have to reconcile his party's tension between those who worship God and those wh...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

Pornography for Progressives

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Spoiler alert for any rabid right-wingers who may have wandered in here: What follows could be bad for your blood pressure. Amid all of toda...
Monday, July 16, 2007

Republican President? Liar Luntz Has a Plan

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Talk about die-hards: The GOP’s piss-on–the-public pollster/pundit Frank Lunz unveils his strategy to keep the White House in ’08. It gets ...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

Bush-League Supreme Court

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Of the damage this presidency has done to American society, the worst and longest-lasting is just becoming visible. As the Supreme Court end...
Monday, June 18, 2007

Can Romney Get It Right?

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Even as he gains some traction in the polls, Mitt Romney keeps coming up as the “empty suitor” of Republican Conservatives. In the last deba...
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ROBERT STEIN
editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality." This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that, even in our age of 24/7 hot flashes, something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news, but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days, tribes kept village elders around to remind them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.
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