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Independent Thinking

Thursday, February 14, 2008

The Courant has seen fit to give one Robert Thorson a weekly column on its op-ed page. Mr. Thorson is a geology professor at UConn, so he presumably knows a lot about rocks. Unfortunately, he writes about politics, at least he did today. One must wonder why the Courant sees fit to give this person […]

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Something happening here, take two

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

I’m always suspicious of newspaper articles composed of man in the street anecdotes, but if this article from the (UK) Independent is accurate, then we may be in for a November election that even the Democrats can’t lose: In the wealthiest suburbs of Virginia, a quiet revolution was under way yesterday as life-long republicans switched […]

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That’s the way you do it

Monday, February 11, 2008

Charter Revision Commission meeting tonight, so I will merely pass on these videos that are all over the net by now. This is great stuff, beating up on McCain instead of each other. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs[/youtube] And here’s another: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUKINg8DCUo[/youtube]

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McCain and Bloomberg: centrists both, if you disregard their positions on the issues

Saturday, February 9, 2008

I am horribly confused. Michael Bloomberg’s fantasy of running for president as a “centrist” candidate has officially foundered, according to Chuck Hagel, now that John McCain has locked up the Republican nomination. Why? Well, apparently, according to the Times, Bloomberg is a moderate and a centrist, and so is McCain. These adjectives, in McCain’s case, […]

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The Day Loves them some McCain

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

You had to go beneath the fold of this morning’s Day to see a mention of a Democrat. The headline was all Rs, and the meanest, biggest, bestest R of them all was big John McCain, the maverick Republican from Arizona.Y ou know, he’s such a maverick that he complains a little before doing what […]

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Reminder: Drinking Liberally Thursday night

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Light blogging tonight. I am watching/listening to the returns on Brave New Films, where they do the heavy lifting of watching CNN for me, report the results, and reinforce all my preconceptions. What more could you ask? Now’s a good time to remind everyone that Thursday night is the second meeting of the Southeastern Connecticut […]

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Pictures from the Obama rally

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Good Morning, Democrats. Time to be the Deciders. A timely reminder in this morning’s comics: Guess which party’s primary they’re voting in? Actually, the main point of this hurried post is to put up some pictures of the Obama rally that Betsy Moukawsher sent me last night. Betsy was up close, but to the rear.

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The pundit speaks

Monday, February 4, 2008

As an amateur pundit I cannot aspire to the lack of prescience endemic in the professional punditocracy. But that doesn’t mean I can’t inflict my prognostications on a helpless public. At least in my case, I’m not inflicting myself on a million living rooms. Anyway, here’s my take on tomorrow. I am predicting that Obama […]

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Round to Krugman

Monday, February 4, 2008

My mind is at war with itself. What to do when Paul Krugman and Dean Baker disagree? These are guys that normally know what they’re talking about. In this case the specific area of disagreement is about Obama’s health care plan. Unlike Hillary, it does not mandate that you purchase health insurance, but it does […]

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Blowin in the wind

Friday, February 1, 2008

I am veering back and forth between Obama and Hillary. During yesterday’s debate one of the questions from the public raised the question of dynasty. I think it’s a serious issue. We can’t allow our highest office to become a hereditary entitlement. That, along with my reluctance to see endure another 8 years of Clinton […]

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