Month: July 2014

Movement Conservatism is Dead

I don’t know what it is going to take to convince the Republicans that they will lose if a national election takes place that motivates the bases of both parties. Their base isn’t big enough to win a national...

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A Schism on the Online Left

I stopped attending Netroots Nation conferences after 2009 when it became apparent to me that the movement wasn’t so much leftist as anti-establishment. But I still enjoy reading pieces on the conference that seem more...

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The Democrats are the Least-Lousy Party

Ron Fournier struggles with the issue of false equivalence. For him, it doesn’t matter how badly the Republican Party acts as long as he can argue that the Democratic Party is unpopular, too: This is no way to run a...

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Daylight Video

Forty-five years ago, my mother was seven months pregnant with me when the “eagle landed” on the moon. Whether you were born or not when the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon was actually a thing with my...

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