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A blog of liberal, progressive ideas in politics, government, and social issues.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Joke at the Iowa Straw Poll
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Michele Bachmann, speaking to her supporters today at the Iowa Straw Poll, made this claim: Her experience as a tax lawyer helps her unders...
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Liberals debate Obama's performance
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A critique of Obama's performance by Drew Westen, Emory psychology professor, author of The Political Brain , and a personal friend of m...
Friday, August 12, 2011
A Democratic Woman
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Olympia Snowe looks stateswomanly next to Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. But there is a smart, articulate, determined, principled, pro...
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Short takes
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1. Republican Senator Olymphia Snowe (R-ME), speaking to a group of supporters at a rally, lamented the extreme partisanship of the debt ce...
The supercommittee
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Nine of the twelve members of the "super committee" have now been named -- lacking only Nancy Pelosi's choice of three House D...
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Monday, August 8, 2011
Krugman responds to the S & P downgrade
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So the stock market fell precipitously again today, certainly not helped by the unprecedented downgrade by Standard and Poor's credit ra...
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Lighten up; it's Sunday
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Comedian Lewis Black on why he does not do Sarah Palin jokes: "I made the decision after she was nominated and I heard her speak the fi...
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