Month: March 2010

Shooting Yourself in the Foot

For decades conservatives have worked to see that blacks and latinos are undercounted in the Census. Now they are voluntarily disenfranchising themselves by refusing to send in the forms. Should we be happy about that? After...

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So Much for “Law and Order” Conservatism

There’s one thing slightly less shocking than the arrest of nine members of the Hutaree Christian militia for plotting to plotting to kill law enforcement officers (with IEDs). That’s conservative bloggers coming to...

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Obama and the New Netroots

I enjoyed reading Chris Bowers’s recent piece on losing the argument to President Obama. It’s an admission that Obama has support from an overwhelming percentage of self-styled progressives in this country. Nowhere...

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Does Karzai Owe His Life to Diem?

Sometimes I wonder if the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem is the reason that Hamid Karzai is still alive and nominally in control of Afghanistan. As bad as Diem was, things only got worse in South Vietnam after Kennedy had him...

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