The Logic of Libertarianism: Democrats and School Choice

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Thursday June 08, 2006 · 8:21 PM PDT

2006/06/08 · 20:21

Yesterday Kos threw down the gauntlet, saying aloud about Dean Democrats what some of us have suspected, that this is not only a reform movement seeking to dislodge the fossilized culture of consultants and cravenness from its grip on Washington, but an ideological movement seeking to transform the Democrats into the party of libertarian populism. Read More

Top Ten Podcasts

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Saturday May 13, 2006 · 8:33 PM PDT

2006/05/13 · 20:33

This diary is hereby devoted to lists of the top ten (in your enlightened estimation) podcasts on the internet. Read More

There will be no civil war in Iraq.

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Friday February 03, 2006 · 8:43 PM PST

2006/02/03 · 20:43

There will be no civil war in Iraq. Read More

Democrats: the Party of Jefferson

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Sunday January 15, 2006 · 7:02 PM PST

2006/01/15 · 19:02

American politics has always been circumscribed by the tension left unresolved at the end of the Revolution between Federalists and Antifederalists, the big government conservative forces of Washington, Hamilton, and Adams, and the limited government liberal forces of Jefferson and Madison. Read More

Memories of the New World Order

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Monday December 12, 2005 · 6:49 PM PST

2005/12/12 · 18:49

I remember 1989. We watched the Berlin Wall fall on CNN, my father wondering aloud if any of those people crossing through Potsdamer Platz in both directions as if it was just another city square were blood ties. Read More

Ed Masry, of Erin Brockovich fame, has died

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Tuesday December 06, 2005 · 11:15 PM PST

2005/12/06 · 23:15

Sad. Ed Masry, the crusading Southern California attorney whose law firm won the $333-million settlement against Pacific Gas and Electric for groundwater contamination in the high desert, and who was portrayed by Albert Finney in the movie "Erin Brockovich" has died. He was 73. Read More

Fmr Seattle Police Chief: Legalize It, All of It

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Sunday December 04, 2005 · 10:51 AM PST

2005/12/04 · 10:51

This is refreshing. In an editorial in today's Seattle Times former Seattle police chief comes out in favor not just of decriminalization, but of legalization, and not just of marijuana, but all drugs, "including heroin, cocaine, meth, psychotropics, mushrooms and LSD."
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Schwarzenegger: California is my Iraq

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Monday November 14, 2005 · 1:58 AM PST

2005/11/14 · 01:58

In the wake of his failed corporate takeover of California, it appears that Governor Schwarzenegger has apparently decided to take a page from the Rovian playbook, seeking to plunge the state (not to mention future generations) into tens of billions of new debt and no doubt generously subisidize many of the same corporations whose interests voters just thumbed their noses at this past week. Read More

American conservative victimology and the French riots

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Tuesday November 08, 2005 · 6:46 PM PST

2005/11/08 · 18:46

The ongoing unrest in France is as numerous others have pointed out the tragic but likely inevitable outcome to the systematic exclusion of immigrants from French politics, the economy, and society. It also presents us with a feast of delicious ironies that tell us perhaps more than we cared to know about contemporary American conservatism. Read More

Libyan blogger jailed for criticising Bush buddy Gadhafi

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Friday November 04, 2005 · 8:36 PM PST

2005/11/04 · 20:36

The wire services are reporting that Mr. Bush's new best friend in North Africa Colonel Gadhafi apparently hasn't yet received word that freedom is on the march. Read More

The Revolution Not In Progress

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Tuesday November 01, 2005 · 6:25 PM PST

2005/11/01 · 18:25

America is on the precipice of crisis, if not already in the early years of a national and international period of peril that may equal in magnitude but differ in character from the era of the American revolution, civil war and reconstruction, and depression and second world war. Read More

Democrats, the coming crisis, and the case for devolution

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Sunday October 30, 2005 · 7:22 PM PST

2005/10/30 · 19:22

There are multiple theories circulating these days among Democrats about why the party, despite favoring policies that have the apparent support of a majority of Americans, continue to lose elections. Read More

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