Month: January 2007

You Can’t Square an Iraqi Circle

Earnest and well-intentioned ain’t going to cut it in Iraq.  Someone needs to get that message to the new U.S. ground commander, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno.  You see, Odierno wants to fight Iraq with the Iraqis...

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Lakoff on the "100 Hour Agenda"

A conversation with George Lakoff, senior fellow of the Rockridge Institute, introducing Rockridge Nation, Nancy Pelosi’s 100 hour agenda, and the concept of framing of progressive values. The Rockridge Institute...

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Time To “Draw a Line in the Sand” on Iraq

There are so many examples of why we are at a critical time in Iraq right now that I won’t list them all here – but certainly any of my prior diaries (or many of the others) over the past few months will give many examples of...

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Ryan Lizza is a Buffoon

Feministing’s Ann responds to Ryan Lizza’s idiocy. This cardboard-cutout view of gender means there’s no way for female politicians to prove their “toughness” on a surface level, because...

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