Month: November 2009

Violating People’s Grief

One thing gets lost when we focus only on the right of a woman to terminate her pregnancy. And that is that pregnancies terminate themselves all the time. And, when they do, there is frequently a problem that the remnants of...

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Bi-weekly Public Opinion Roundup

For much of this decade, immigration has been an important topic on the public agenda. Nowhere is that more true than in California. The state is home to 9.9 million immigrants, its governor is an immigrant, and it is a border...

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The Threat of Governing from This Center

The problem of not having a rational alternative party to the Democrats became obvious in the New Jersey gubernatorial race. In July, the FBI, in a widespread money laundering and corruption investigation, arrested dozens of...

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This Will Now Get Very Big

ABC News reports: U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the...

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The Soul of the Party?

Many people have described what took place in the 23rd district of New York congressional race as an internal struggle within the Republican Party as an internal struggle for the soul of the Republican Party. I find this analogy...

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