Gaza pullout on Current.

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Monday August 15, 2005 · 9:09 PM PDT

2005/08/15 · 21:09

Hey guys,

I don't know if anyone has been following Al Gore's cable-internet venture online, but they have a really amazing bit of "breaking" first-hand journalism from the Gaza strip up right now by one of their freelancers, Adrian Baschuk. This is the link. Read More

What personal responsibility ethic? (Or: Why Ed Kilgore is wrong)

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Monday July 18, 2005 · 2:29 AM PDT

2005/07/18 · 02:29

With apologies to DCBlues.

Today, Ed Kilgore wrote about the "big picture implications" of the Rove scandal over at TPMCafe: Read More

Conservatism and gay marriage in Canada.

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Thursday June 30, 2005 · 2:40 AM PDT

2005/06/30 · 02:40

John Ibbitson wrote what I think is going to be one of my favourite op-eds ever (partly because he gets the smugness just right) in yesterday's Globe and Mail about Parliament passing C-38, the gay marriage recognition bill. Read More

Uganda's ABC AIDS success: New Report says it was the "C"

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Sunday May 01, 2005 · 4:35 AM PDT

2005/05/01 · 04:35

The Bush Admin likes the Ugandan AIDS story. As Jonathan Cohn explained it two years ago:

Although President Bush has pledged $15 billion to fight global AIDS over the next ten years--an impressively generous sum, assuming his tax cuts don't swallow up the money before it's spent--he clings to a very specific idea about how AIDS-prevention money should be spent: on teaching abstinence. That's why he and his supporters constantly talk up the success of Uganda. Ten years ago, 15 percent of the country's population had AIDS. Today, just 5 percent do. And a major reason for the drop is an AIDS program that conforms to White House notions of propriety. As Ari Fleischer explained recently, Uganda puts "an emphasis where emphasis belongs, which is on abstinence."

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Wednesday April 27, 2005 · 4:11 PM PDT

2005/04/27 · 16:11

Last night I got an email from my riding's Federal Liberal Party calling the meeting this coming Friday night to renominate our MP, Steven Owen, for the next federal election. Read More

NPR: Where did Bush's 2000 donors go?

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Saturday February 19, 2005 · 6:46 PM PST

2005/02/19 · 18:46

I hope this hasn't been diaried. But I found this article via Avedon Carol's blog The Sideshow: Read More

Charles Peters' 2002 advice for Democrats.

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Sunday January 09, 2005 · 1:58 AM PST

2005/01/09 · 01:58

So I've been reading back copies of Charles Peters' old "Tilting at Windmills" column for Washington Monthly. Peters was the intellectual founder-of-sorts of the modern neoliberal movement and, while his political analysis runs a little milqueotoasty at times, his takes on his favourite topics -- corporate malfeasance, political corruption and the problems of Washington bureaucracy in establishing sufficient industrial regulation -- are still interesting (and outrageous). Here was his advice to Democrats in the wake of the 2002 midterm election "disaster": Read More

Letters to Beinart (and Howard Dean: Hawk)

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Tuesday December 07, 2004 · 1:42 AM PST

2004/12/07 · 01:42

There's been loads of talk here about Beinart's "A Fighting Faith" article that appeared in TNR last week. TNR has published a bunch of letters they received responding to the article (no subscription required for once!) Read More

Cuyahoga's in: Looking for clarification

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Tuesday November 30, 2004 · 10:32 AM PST

2004/11/30 · 10:32

Sorry to waste a diary on this but I'm looking for some Ohio clarification. Read More

Nursing my broken heart...

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Sunday November 07, 2004 · 8:00 PM PST

2004/11/07 · 20:00

I was wrong about this election. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I predicted -- I told my friends, my family, made two financial bets and my staked my honour as an armchair pundit (I had a nearly perfect record) -- that turnout would be 54% and that Kerry would win by 2 million votes. I said the Dems would lose four in the Senate but pick up two in the House. Read More

The Right in all its Hypocritical and Intellectually Masturbating glory

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Saturday September 25, 2004 · 12:00 PM PDT

2004/09/25 · 12:00

I thought this was sort of a fun coincidence. Over at the "RNC accredited" Power Line blog, one of the main posters, Deacon, is off for the day, observing the Jewish holiday. So he kindly decided to leave us with this posting called "The Horror". This was originally posted on May 26th, 2004 on the subject of a mildly hyperbolic speech by Al Gore on the Abu Ghraib crisis. But Deacon thought he should bring it back today because "the essence applies to an all-too-large chunk of [Gore's] party" these days.

To whit:

One of the great differences between liberals and conservatives is how the two camps go about explaining misconduct. Conservatives prefer straightforward, old-fashioned explanations that focus on a flaw in those who commit the misconduct -- greed, lust, cruelty, or (in extreme cases) evil itself. For liberals, such explanations are unsatisfyingly superficial. Misconduct must have a root cause, but liberals consider basic human instincts such as greed, lust, and cruelty to be insufficiently rooted. Thus, an intellectual posse must be recruited to track down the real culprit. And the search always seems to lead to the liberals' version of the heart of darkness -- "Amerika," in other words the policies adopted by America's elected leaders. By rejecting the obvious explanation and shifting the blame to American policy, the liberal accompishes that which is most important to him -- he proves his intellectual and moral superiority. Read More

Dems must challenge the "Ownership Society" (really long)

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Sunday September 05, 2004 · 7:33 PM PDT

2004/09/05 · 19:33

On Thursday night, Bush reintroduced himself as a "compassionate conservative" and delivered his "positive, upbeat" plan for the next four years: a terrorist-busting strategy abroad and, at home, the creation of an American "ownership society".

On Friday, Jonathan Chait published the most illuminating and alarming article of the season (IMO) in the New Republic (at the American Prospect, Robert Reich offered this less impressive version of same) explaining exactly what that "ownership society" entails and why we're likely to see it come to fruition if Bush gets a second term with a Republican Congress. For those who can't access TNR, here are the relevant portions of Chait's analysis: Read More

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