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Credit where credit is due

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

As we helplessly watch the spectacle of a nation being consumed by racism and Islamophobia, urged on by Republicans and some Democrats, we should pause to recognize the politicians who have done what should be the easy thing: come out in support of one of the most fundamental American values, freedom of religion. Talking Points […]

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Social Security under threat

Monday, August 23, 2010

As I believe I’ve written before, I have a pretty strong belief in maintaining a strong social security program. My family depended on Social Security survivors benefits, along with other socialistic stuff like worker’s compensation, to survive after my father died. Right now I represent a lot of social security claimants, and I see how […]

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Fuzzy math

Monday, August 23, 2010

This morning the Day devoted much of page 2 (with a teaser on page 1) to an anti-mosque (here we must be reminded that they’re not really even building a mosque) demonstration in New York City, which according to the Day (I couldn’t find the article on-line) drew “hundreds” of people. I have often noted […]

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Same old song

Sunday, August 22, 2010

There’s nothing new under the sun. The year is 1834 A religious structure, erected by a despised religious minority, and built too close to “sacred ground”, is attacked by an angry mob. Full disclosure, the erudite historian (despite his use of the word “anyways”) is my son.

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Time to pull together

Sunday, August 22, 2010

During the primary campaign I was privileged to be a member of a Lamont google group. I don’t tend to join the conversation in these sorts of things, but I read the emails that went back and forth, sometimes at a blistering pace. I can certainly understand that there would be a bit of residual […]

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Curiouser and curiouser

Sunday, August 22, 2010

My first thought upon hearing about the warrant for the arrest (followed hard upon by the dropping of the charges) of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was “CIA”. It took me a long time to come to this sort of reflexive thinking. I remember back in the dim and distant past, the halcyon days of the […]

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Friday Night video-desperation

Friday, August 20, 2010

I am in the Ludlow Vermont public library on one of the ten most beautiful days of the year. I must be crazy. I have discovered that, for reasons I can’t fathom, you cannot copy embed code at youtube when using an Ipad. I think I may have worked around it, but if this doesn’t […]

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The Filibuster Redux

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

One of my right wing commenters (I always have one) posted a comment in response to my recommendation that we, one and all, sign Kos’s petition to end the filibuster. The comment was to the effect that you need 67 votes to change the filibuster rule. Kos isn’t stupid, and if he thought you needed […]

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End the Filibuster

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Sign Kos’s Petition.

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Saying the right thing

Sunday, August 15, 2010

I haven’t hesitated to criticize Obama, so it’s only fair that I take note when he does something right. It was good to hear about his statements about the New York Muslim Cultural Center. Being sort of out of circulation, I heard about them somewhat belatedly, and by the time I find an internet connection […]

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