Month: October 2009

Serious Question

Traditional Americans are white. That’s Pat Buchanan’s term. Sarah Palin preferred to use ‘Real Americans.’ That’s probably because until 1920 it was traditional in this country to deny women the...

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Whatever, Mary.

I saw this on Friday and — as is typical in my life — didn’t get around to writing something about it until today. Since then, of course, bigger bloggers than me — with bigger media megaphones — have covered it. But when a...

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Appraising the Midterms

There are a few freshman Democratic congresspeople who were narrowly elected in 2008 on the backs of either unusually high black turnout or student turnout, or both. Mary Jo Kilroy (Ohio State University) and Tom Perriello...

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