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    Our experience was that the most important learning for our children in the first three or so years of school…
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    • True, although the sequencing is important.  The Democratic party first made itself an unwelcoming place for segregationists (the inclusion of…
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    • And your examples of "heightening the contradictions" that have worked out well for progressives are?
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    • Apparently the guy is a tea party/constitutional conservative activist who's been backing McDaniel.   In the latest update from the…
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    • Great "captioning for the clear-headed".  All things considered, it's a minor miracle Joe Cocker survived the 1960s and 70s. This…
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    • Thanks for your detailed and thoughtful comment.  I know we've been lucky, in many ways, with our children and with…
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    • Thanks, Booman.  Interesting stuff.  I'll go you one further. Let's assume the 2014 and 2016 elections break so well for…
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    • What to expect?  Having had the opportunity to sit in on some graduate-school level lectures on climate change last year,…
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    • Adding, going on offense could help change public opinion.  (See, for example, TV ads running in Alaska and Kentucky senate…
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    • Thanks, Booman.  Another fine post. Just to add some thoughts about the broader politics of all this: If we consider…
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    • Who says the people who elected this guy to office for 30 years weren't voting their interests?  Isn't it more…
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    • Excellent post, thank-you.   Maybe it's time we all started using the invaluable Charles Gaba's numbers:  14.6 - 22.1 million…
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    • Good post.  Just one minor quibble:  shouldn't we be talking about the 13-17 million Americans covered by the ACA already,…
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    • Thanks.  The verses of "Wrecking Ball" are definitely not on the uphill side of the mountain.  But, like a lot…
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    • Great review, Booman, thanks. Although I'd place the pivot point of the album in a slightly different place. I think…
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    • Not saying that Lanier doesn't have a point, but growth of the internet doesn't explain why the turning point for…
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    • Thanks for your comment.  Ryan's words are more than just "textbook poor hating".  They're textbook "inner-city" poor hating...which is code…
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    • Very well said, Booman. One additional point:  Everything you said (and Rep. Ryan said) about persistent poverty in "our inner…
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    • "Seize the commanding heights" was a key phrase/policy in Lenin's introduction of the Soviet Union's "New Economic Policy" in 1924.
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    • Thanks.  So, in 2010 approximately 267,000 ballots were cast in the general election for the old FL-13 district.  This week…
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