Recent Votes

• Why Conservatism Doesn't Work

  Source: talesofcoppercity.com

  For years I have tried to teach courses in public philosophy and public policy in balanced ways that was fair to conservative ideas and ideals, all the while knowing that at bottom conservatism today is founded on myths and fantasies about the market and the individual that just  …

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• In a couple of hours America is going to change in a huge way - or not!

  Everything the Democrats in Congress and President Obama have on their agenda rides on today's election in Boston. It's ironic that the hometown of the Kennedy's might be on the verge of sending a Republican to Washington!

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• Arlen Specter reveals more: GOP made 'no effort to find answers to economic problems - it was just a no, no, no, and no discussion'

  Source: Guardian Unlimited

  The important sentence here, of course, is the one about no effort put toward answering the country's economic problems. Not that we didn't know this, but it's interesting to see it said by someone who was in the room.

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• Barack Obama locked in dirty war with a Right Wing bent on destroying him

  Source: The Times

  One quote really hit home for me last week. It is quite typical of a certain kind of paranoid conservative subculture; it reflects conspiracy theories, and it's motivated by extreme antipathy to Barack Obama.

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• As GOP grumbles, race shields Steele

  Source: Politico

  Among top GOP operatives in Washington, there is overwhelming majority sentiment that the Republican National Committee blundered a year ago when it tapped Michael Steele as its chairman.

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