Terrific piece on the Gates kerfuffle
Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Jack Ross
By E.J. Dionne.
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People I’m Sick Of
Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Jack Ross
The “Blue Dog” Democrats, of which Sean has a typically insightful post on the main blog. His analysis is essentially right, that there are some principled populists who find their way into the group but its really just a bunch of very typical bought-and-paid-whore congresspeople. What Sean failed to do justice to, therefore, was how [...]
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Old and Poor
Posted on July 28th, 2009 by George Hawley
I agree with most of the doomsayers who fail to find comfort in the blather about “green shoots” and predict that the economy will shortly get much worse, perhaps leading to conditions not seen in the United States since the Great Depression. Obviously we may find ourselves in a situation worse than in the 1930s, [...]
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Shameless Self-Promotion
Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Jack Ross
After something of a hiatus to finish my book and the site’s long-overdue reformatting, I’ve just posted my first regular column at Mondoweiss, in what I hope will become a regular paying gig.
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I wear my sunglasses at night…
Posted on July 25th, 2009 by Nathan P. Origer
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — … because the sun never sets on the American Imperium. Just a friendly Saturday reminder of where your tax dollars* end up: Map of United States military bases worldwide. (Apologies: Actually uploading the map would have created a better effect, but I had no such luck.) *Holy moly, in 2004 our [...]
My Sense of Place
Posted on July 24th, 2009 by Jack Ross
So I’ve been vacationing for the last week, and will be for another several days, at my mother’s home in Northfield, Vermont – home of Norwich University whose Online Masters Program ads dominate the landscape of the TAC family of blogs. Just ten miles south of Montpelier, this is truly the heart of the once [...]
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Hunter S Thompson and TAC
Posted on July 24th, 2009 by Freddy Gray
A new book of interviews with Hunter S Thompson dropped on my desk yesterday. It’s a good read. HST may not suit conservative tastes. His popular image is irritatingly contrived — manipulated to sell books and posters and films to silly adolescents who think drugs are cool. But the man was fascinating: a libertarian, a [...]
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Ron Paul Singles
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Freddy Gray
The Ron Paul Singles website really is something to behold. Lovers of liberty unite! Or as Dr Paul himself puts it (toward the end of this clip) “make love not war.” Hear, hear. Embedded video from CNN Video The site’s man-woman ratio is probably not quite what its designers had hoped. There are already 298 [...]
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The Conscience Is Irrelevant, OR Welcome to Barack’s America
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Nathan P. Origer
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — One’s freedom to choose is limited by the moral obligation to kill: NEW YORK — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Mount Sinai Hospital on behalf of a Catholic nurse who was forced to participate in a late-term abortion under the threat of disciplinary action, including possible termination [...]
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Architecture and the Shortcomings of the Left-Right divide
Posted on July 21st, 2009 by Nathan P. Origer
Mint-and-Corn Country, Indiana — I’m not entirely sure why, but while I was driving my grandfather to an appointment today, I started to think of an essay that I first encountered long ago, and to which I occasionally return, written by Peter Kreeft (I’m a fan of Kreeft, so I’ll forgive his being at BC [...]