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- The importance of this maneuver is being grossly underestimated. It amounts to de facto secession. Expect more of the same.
- The civil war settled the legality of secession. But what about expulsion?
- What we're seeing here is an interactive process of emboldening. As rightist discourse in this country becomes more and more
- The reptilian Grassley first trod upon the grand stage (in my awareness, anyway) when he and his fellow Republicans decided
- The 2001-2009 government is, it seems, the journalistic gift that keeps on giving -- simply because so many things that
- It seems almost a category mistake to link such mentions of Hitler to "history." Hitler as a figure in sub-comicbook-level
- In addition to the factors noted by semiotix and jfields (pundit rivalry; political goal achieved), there is another, purely substantive
- It is increasingly hard to believe that there ever was a controversy over Hannah Arendt's phrase 'the banality of evil'.
- It is curious that huge amounts of evidence are apparently needed to support the idea that Bush played a role
- It's a mistake to view this kind of talk as idiosyncratic blurting. We hear the same things over & over
- The "great marching song" -- copied from a British model -- for those of you who don't know the lyrics:
- "...white people don't call each other articulate." News to me. In fact, the terms take their meaning against a conventionalized
- "Second, the fact no attack has occurred on U.S. soil since 9/11--much touted by Cheney--is due almost entirely to the
- Of the 1930's-style racist Lieberman, Rosenberg remarks "So far he's all talk." And it doesn't matter what the content of
- Strange, spreading meme here. Find things -- events, not policies -- to blame on Obama. Seems to work well for
