Month: September 2010

Make the Damn Argument

I agree with Joan McCarter completely (per usual) when she says that it’s pure baloney that the president is guilty of liberal overreach and that this is the reason Democrats are doing poorly in the polls. I accept her...

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Stupid Topics

I don’t care whether or not Glenn Beck is good for Mormonism, but I guess some people do. Philip Barlow, the Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University, said that Beck is “something of a...

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DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Saad Nabeel

Originally posted on Citizen Orange.The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act. The Development,...

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A Pre-Review of American Taliban

Here’s a sampling from Jamell Bouie’s review of Markos Moulitsas’s book American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right: Given the subject matter and his own influence,...

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The Day They Put James J. Lee Down

James J. Lee died yesterday. Shot dead while protesting the media. Up close and personal. If you read his “manifesto” you will quickly get the smell of someone who was obviously batshit crazy…a Bronx mental...

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