SocraticGadfly
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- : Suburban Dallas newspaper editor. Left-liberal (outside the Democratic party) on a number of issues; skeptical left-liberal. Scientific-minded atheist.
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- : "There is no god, and I am his profit." by Steve Snyder (SocraticGadfly)
McKinney is officially the one
Cynthia McKinney is the Green Party’s 2008 presidential nominee. Democrats who either want to be anti-Green trollish, or don't follow the Green Party, once again take note that Ralph Nader is NOT the official anything of any organized political party....more »
Posted on July 13, 2008 12:02 AM
Before the Dems and GOP meet ... the Greens
Here’s your Green Party candidates for president, 2008:1. Jesse Johnson, 2006 US Senate candidate and 2004 gubernatorial candidate for the Mountain Party in West Virginia (now affiliate state party of the Green Party of the United States); filmmaker.2. Kat Swift,...more »
Posted on July 4, 2008 5:14 PM
Thurgood Marshall -- the man who should have been Chief Justice
That's my reflection on the 100th anniversary of his birth.Thurgood Marshall is the man who could have, and should have, been named by LBJ as chief justice. There's no way the Senate would have blocked his appointment by refusal...more »
Posted on July 2, 2008 11:40 PM
Obama is NOT sympathetic to atheists/secularists
Let’s get that clear, after one or two other reader posts here on the heels of his faith-based speech Tuesday First, they’re still unconstitutional, from where this skeptical atheist sits. <b>Public trust</b>(s) as well as public offices...more »
Posted on July 2, 2008 11:56 AM
FISA vote – House turncoats detailed
Leading black Democrats who should know better from ethnic history than to give immunity from illegal wiretapping. One or two theoretically liberal Democrats who weren’t, on this. All part of the 45 percent of Democrats who caved, or,...more »
Posted on June 20, 2008 2:00 PM
FISA vote – House turncoats detailed
Leading black Democrats who should know better from ethnic history than to give immunity from illegal wiretapping. One or two theoretically liberal Democrats who weren’t, on this. All part of the 45 percent of Democrats who caved, or,...more »
Posted on June 20, 2008 1:56 PM
Telco sellout, er, quasi-immunity, deal seems done
Reportedly, Congressional and White House negotiators have agreed to the the basics of a FISA renewal bill that is, in essence, pretty much a warmed-over version of what Kit Bond proposed months ago.The only diff is that district courts involved...more »
Posted on June 13, 2008 11:33 PM
The seriousness of the case behind Judge Alex Kozinsk's fetishes
Ira Isaacs may be in the middle of the most serious obscenity trial in the U.S. in years if not decades, Judge Kozinski aside.You can read my take on it as part of my regular Friday SCATblogging series, a takeoff...more »
Posted on June 13, 2008 2:01 AM
Arianna not all she cracks herself up to be
Re the star of this week's TPM Cafe, she's a little light in the loafers for her blind support of faith-based programs, even to the point of denigrating stalwart defenders of church-state separation....more »
Posted on June 10, 2008 1:32 AM
Protesting Exxon in Dallas – pix at my blog
I wasn’t in Dallas last year, but two years ago, I joined the protest in front of ExxonMobil’s annual shareholder meeting. Back in town, back to protest. The big item on the shareholder agenda this year is the...more »
Posted on May 28, 2008 11:55 AM
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Obama needs to listen to Juan Cole and not send more troops to A-stan.
Posted at July 22, 2008 3:14 PM in response to At Jordan Presser, Obama Keeps Co-Opting GOP Language On Terror
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Shorter Brooks, in this column:
"I'm not going to mention Bush's name as responsible."
Posted at July 22, 2008 2:39 PM in response to Intellectual Usury Feels Good, at First
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No, it's more than that.
BMukasey and the rest of BushCo want to coopt Congress into nailing some jello to the wall.
Congress doesn't want to go along.
The Democratic-controlled Congress is still afraid of the GWOT/Soft on Terror GOP talking points.
So, rather than going past calling Mukasey to seriously raising the bet, Congressional Dems go chicken-shit.
Posted at July 21, 2008 11:55 PM in response to Attorney General's Call to Legislate Detainee Policy Rankles Senators
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Are Green Party supporters trolls, too?
Posted at July 21, 2008 6:11 PM in response to How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The TPM Trolls
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Amen to that. Would you like to be an atheist newspaper editor in suburban Dallas?
Posted at July 21, 2008 6:09 PM in response to A Simple Calculation
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Amory Lovins is in love with the hydrogen car, which is just plain stupid.
Posted at July 21, 2008 1:47 PM in response to Gore's Move
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What "big gamble"? Not a big gamble in this speech, at all.
A "big gamble," per Juan Cole, would be for Obama to announce that, excepting much more cooperation from Pakistan, he's going to pull us out of Afghanistan as well as Iraq.
Posted at July 15, 2008 1:57 PM in response to Obama: "I Strongly Stand By My Plan To End This War"
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Amen.
AND, contrary to Theda on FISA, Obama didn't just have "one vote." He's the putative leader of the Democratic Party.
He had a PLATFORM.
And he deliberately chose not to use it in a progressive way.
Posted at July 13, 2008 11:19 PM in response to Can Progressives Unite, or Will It Be the Same Old Bit-Politics Story?
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Speaking of “populism” again, where were Dodd and Feingold with their FISA filibuster threats? AWOL.
The Senate GOP threatens a filibuster once a week and Dems cave. Certain Dems talk about an actual filibuster, then cave.
Posted at July 9, 2008 5:12 PM in response to Obama Moves to the Populist
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And, speaking of “populism,” the Green Party convention starts tomorrow. And, no, Ralph Nader is NOT a Green Party presidential candidate.
Posted at July 9, 2008 5:02 PM in response to Obama Moves to the Populist
