Action Alert: Save Our History

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Friday March 09, 2007 · 11:29 AM PST

2007/03/09 · 11:29

Writing history has to do with access, and President Bush, with Executive Order (E.O.) 13233, issued in November 2001, gives not only current and former presidents, but also vice presidents and a former president's family, the authority to withhold presidential records or delay their release indefinitely.

Please join the American Historical Association, the National Coalition for History and others in calling on Congress to support H.R. 1255, the "Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007" to guarantee the release of presidential records to historians and the public.

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Sunday July 09, 2006 · 8:30 AM PDT

2006/07/09 · 08:30

Pundits, right and left, every time the host brings up the Lieberman - Lamont primary, call it a single issue election. Every time I find myself yelling back at the TV, "It's not about the fucking war!" While Lieberman's lockstep support of the President on that issue is one of reasons a lot of people dislike Joe, it is far from the only reason that people want him out of the Senate. Yet, the pundits and hosts (this morning it was Donna Brazile (would you trust her to run your campaign?), George Will and host George Stephanopoulos) say that the anger from the left is only focused on the war issue and that the netroots want lockstep agreement on that issue. The same theme was also on Olbermann following the debate. In this interparty dispute, they can't seem to wrap their head around the fact that Joe Lieberman is, on issues more than just the war, not a good Democrat. Read More

Help Save the NEH and NEA

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Thursday May 18, 2006 · 2:41 PM PDT

2006/05/18 · 14:41

The Republican Congress is looking to take money from the NEH and NEA. Please call your Rep. and ask them to support additional funding. Read More

Why 2006 Is Not 1994

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Monday April 17, 2006 · 8:01 AM PDT

2006/04/17 · 08:01

There are plenty of similarities - one party controls Congress and the White House. There is mass dissatisfaction with the ruling party. That party is seen as arrogant and out of touch. There is a groundswell that is looking for change; the majority party suffers retirements and scandal.

However, the difference is in the underlying structure of the opposition. Read More

The Irony of American History

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Thursday April 13, 2006 · 10:18 PM PDT

2006/04/13 · 22:18

The fact that the European nations, more accustomed to the tragic vicissitudes of history, still have a measure of misgiving about our (America's) leadership in the world community is due to the fear that our "technocratic" tendency to equate master of nature with the master of history could tempt us to lose patience with the tortuous course of history. We might be driven to hysteria by its inevitable frustrations. We might be tempted to bring the whole of modern history to a tragic conclusion by one final and mighty effort to overcome its frustrations. The political term for such an effort is "preventive war."

Reinhold Neihbuhr wrote those words in 1952. Read More

Channeling Goldwater

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Wednesday March 29, 2006 · 8:20 PM PST

2006/03/29 · 20:20

I just finished reading the American Prospect article on Ned Lamont, and it got me thinking about Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election. It was this line that got me:

As it happens, gathering petition signatures is just the type of political operation at which the grassroots activists who've been drawn to Lamont excel.

The 1964 election has gone down in history for a few reasons, one is Johnson's overwhelming victory, another is the famous 'Daisy' ad (and at this point I am contractually obligated to mention that it was only aired once as a paid ad), and it is the election that the New Right showed it had muscle and exerted itself as the guiding force in the Republican Party, a position of power it has held ever since.

Ned Lamont's campaign can be a similar shot across the bow, this time from the left. Read More

Evil Coming: A Warning From the Past

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Friday March 17, 2006 · 4:29 PM PST

2006/03/17 · 16:29

The 1978 election did not elicit much response at the time. Most believed that the status quo had been maintained, with Democrats the dominant party in both houses of Congress. However, the reality was that for the first time since 1974 Republicans made gains. There was a lot of turnover in both houses, 77 in the House and 20 in the Senate, though the net GOP gain was only three Senators and about 14 Representatives (including Newt Gingrich). The numbers do not tell the story, though, of the ideological shift that took place that year - a move to the right.

One Senator saw it coming: Read More

What Isolationism? More Lies from the SOTU

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Thursday February 02, 2006 · 10:33 PM PST

2006/02/02 · 22:33

While there have been many critiques of the recent State of the Union, and many have rightly focused on the bald faced lie of George Oilman's announced (and quickly repudiated) energy policy. However, just as important is his foreign policy fantasy. As Andrew Bacevich wrote in the Los Angeles Times in a piece titled What Isolationism?

In his speech, the president presented a fiction to avoid a debate on a tough policy question.

Bacevich, a professor, veteran (West Point grad), and recovering conservative, has a brilliant critique of the president's foreign policy, follow me down to read all about it. Read More

Hook, Line, and Sinker: NYTimes Buys Bush's Spy Story

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Friday January 27, 2006 · 7:57 PM PST

2006/01/27 · 19:57

Tomorrow the august New York Times will publish a story that backs Bush's defense of his illegal spy program. The story written by By Eric Lichtblau and Adam Liptak starts with this:

But if nothing else, legal and political analysts say, Bush administration officials appear to have succeeded in framing the legal debate on their own terms and daring critics of the National Security Agency operation to prove them wrong.

And no one helps the administration on the frame job better than these two. Read More

A George To Reflect On

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Wednesday January 18, 2006 · 11:02 PM PST

2006/01/18 · 23:02

210 years ago, in 1796, George Washington delivered his farewell address to the young United States of America. He had served two terms as President, and then, incredibly, stepped away from power. He left with words of wisdom to the young republic, some of which we are all aware of, as he famously advised to avoid entangling foreign alliances and political parties. However, his reasoning for warning against parties is fascinating and eerily applicable.

Follow me below to read some of what the first President of the United States of America said: Read More

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