Category: US Politics
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New America Foundation Video Archive
This archive is a great place if you have broadband…some good debates. I liked the James Fallows one especially.
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Permanent military bases won't work
Kimberly Marten and Alexander Cooley, professors of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University, argue that military bases won’t work. In Iraq, it seems unlikely that the U.S. military will shake its current negative reputation, in spite of the good intentions of most American soldiers. As a result of mounting civilian deaths, the failure to…
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Promoting the National Interest: Condoleezza Rice
In case anyone missed it, back in 2000 Condi Rice wrote this piece for Foreign Affairs. It’s a good insight into the mind of the new Secretary of State. Foreign policy in a Republican administration will most certainly be internationalist; the leading contenders in the party’s presidential race have strong credentials in that regard. But…
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Speculation on Condi Rices' sexuality
Late last year I wrote a post about rumours circulating concerning Condi Rices’ sexuality. Some more people recently added comments including: Condoleeza has a wife in the D.C. area and used to roll with Anita Hill in lesbian haunts. Comment by Anonymous Everyone knows that Condoleeza Rice is into girls she is a devout lesbian.…
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Fighting the Wrong War
Fred Kagan in the Weekly Standard on why Rumsfeld must go: With more troops in Iraq during and immediately after the war, we would have been able to do the following things that we did not do: * Capture or kill thousands of Iraqi soldiers who were at that time still concentrated in combat units…
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Intelligent "Daily Show" watchers
I do wish I had satellite sometimes – but I do enjoy watching the Daily Show when I get a torrent or something…of course I’m just saying that because of these figures… With vulgar fare such as The Man Show, South Park, and Reno 911!, the cable network Comedy Central has earned a reputation for…
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Thomas Friedman: In my next life
I meant to blog this article ages ago, but I really did enjoy it. Read the whole thing. Yes, I want to get almost the entire Republican side of the House of Representatives to bend its ethics rules just for me. I want to be able to twist the arms of House Republicans to repeal…
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Aftermath Of Failed Electronic Voting
Slashdot are pointing to a story in the CS Monitor and NPR concerning electronic voting: A combination of human error (setting the machine to record a maximum of three thousand votes when eight thousand people voted) and a software malfunction (the machine kept accepting ballots after its memory was overloaded) resulted in the loss of…
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Jeff Jarvis fisks Michael Powell
Jeff Jarvis is not happy with FCC Chair Michael Powell, Colin’s son. Powell wrote this opinion piece in the New York Times.
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Will Iran Be Next?
James Fallows in the Atlantic asks the question posed on here not so long ago – will Iran be next in line? A subscription is required for this lengthy piece…