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Connor Freidersdorf’s Unsound Moral Calculus
What I am saying is that Obama has done things that, while not comparable to a historic evil like chattel slavery, go far beyond my moral comfort zone. I hate when that happens – a politician goes beyond the Moral Comfort Zone of a Morally Serious Thinker like Mr. Friedersdorf.…
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Matt Stoller’s progressivism in Victorian England
‘It can’t never be haltered,’ interrupted old Linden. ‘I don’t see no sense in all this ‘ere talk. There’s always been rich and poor in the world, and there always will be.’ ‘Wot I always say is there ‘ere,’ remarked Philpot, whose principal characteristic–apart from thirst–was a desire to see…
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Forbes helps Ayn Rand Fans dumb America down
The far right has inherited the traditional ideology that is called “idolatry” in the Bible. In the place of the world God created, they insist that their twisted, crippled, mean little fantasy is reality. Forbes, which should know better has published an example of this stuff from people who idolize…
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Vote as if your life depended on it: Katrina and Sandy
As FEMA competently reaches out to help victims of Sandy, I find myself getting absurdly, horribly, deeply angry. Why? Because I remember what the Bush administration did to the people of New Orleans. You know how on summer Sunday nights, you can bounce around TV? Well, the Science channel had…
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The election, class, and the “left”
The intensity of the right wing corporate campaign to remove Barack Obama from the White House is undeniable. A disciplined and unprecedented campaign of obstruction in Congress was followed by a putsch-like judicial insurrection that overturned 100 years of laws limiting campaign expenses. A lavishly funded national campaign to suppress…
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Mythologizing FDR
Here’s FDR’s banking program, in his own words: Remember that the essential accomplishment of the new legislation is that it makes it possible for banks more readily to convert their assets into cash than was the case before. More liberal provision has been made for banks to borrow on these…
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Differences between the Great Depression and the Great Recession #1
It was then that I issued the proclamation providing for the nation-wide bank holiday, and this was the first step in the Government’s reconstruction of our financial and economic fabric. The second step was the legislation promptly and patriotically passed by the Congress confirming my proclamation and broadening my powers…
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Amnesiac Fake Leftism and Greenwald
Glenn,I appreciate your sarcasm. The change in our country over the last 30 years makes me so sad. I teach government, and I tell the truth to my students. I keep it subversive. The pathetic comment above comes in response to a Greenwald column that sarcastically and scathingly denounces the…
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The Obama method
Senator Barack Obama writing to DailyKos 2005 According to the storyline that drives many advocacy groups and Democratic activists – a storyline often reflected in comments on this blog – we are up against a sharply partisan, radically conservative, take-no-prisoners Republican party. They have beaten us twice by energizing their…
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