Month: September 2007

Voting Rights for DC Filibustered

The Senate failed to invoke cloture and vote on the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007. The tally was 57-42, with Sen. Byrd not voting. The bill would add one seat in the House of Representatives for the people...

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Portrait of a Chicken-Hawk

Appearing at The Jaundiced Eye, the Independent Bloggers’ Alliance, and My Left Wing. Frederick W. Kagan Glenn Greenwald, whose forthcoming book is on the meaningless chest-thumping of chicken-hawk culture, offers the...

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Take My Brother-in-Law, Please

In 1997, Dallas Morning News columnist Lee Cullum wrote the following for David L. Boren’s book Preparing America’s Foreign Policy for the Twenty-First Century, in a chapter called The Media and International...

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Lakoff Disagrees with BooMan

and the Rude Pundit. And I disagree with them too. I am not one for framing debates. Much like BooMan, I think that there is an inherent dishonesty in playing with people’s emotions and minds in order to score a political...

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Mr. Bush’s Next World Order

Last week, the Bush administration put on a carnival that mourned the passing of the New American Century, celebrated the sixth anniversary of our national state of emergency and ushered in the institutionalization of the Next...

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