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Some good news

Saturday, September 26, 2009

The forces of reason are proposing a ballot initiative that will, one would hope, eventually bring an end to ballot initiatives in California: In the coming weeks, the coalition Repair California will begin the official process of calling a state constitutional convention, submitting ballot-initiative language to Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office. Repair California proposes to […]

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I’m beginning to see a pattern here

Monday, September 14, 2009

FromBloomberg news: Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. … “It’s an outrage,” especially “in the U.S. where we poured so much money into the banks,” Stiglitz said. “The […]

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Headline from the Day

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

This Morning’s Paper: In controversial remarks today, students urged to work hard in school. It’s also rumored that Obama, taking one more step on the road toward fascism and/or socialism, will soon announce that puppies are cute. Actually, I’m not sure whether the Day was serious, or the writers were having some fun. Either way, […]

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Reflections on a town hall meeting

Thursday, September 3, 2009

No blogging last night, since my wife and I, along with a bunch of other Groton Dems, went to Montville to attend Joe Courtney’s town hall meeting on health care. I can only say I’m glad that I go swimming every morning, because the chlorine in the pool had to be at least partially effective […]

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Asymmetries

Sunday, August 30, 2009

My son says on his Facebook page that he attended a large pro health care event in New York City yesterday, which as far as I can see went unmentioned in the Times today. The sad fact is that without mention in the press these events may as well not take place, since if they […]

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I’m with Joe on this one

Monday, August 24, 2009

There’s some folks out there that are irate with Joe Courtney for declining to hold “town halls” on health care. You know the world is getting strange when people are complaining because they have been deprived of their right to disrupt what should be a peaceful meeting. Given modern communications, it is now possible to […]

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Finally

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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Per curiam

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The Minnesota Supreme Court finally ruled in Al Franken’s favor. It was a per curiam decision. Per curiam means”by the court”. Per curiam decisions are often used in cases where the court feels the case is so bogus that a full fledged opinion is not necessary. But they can also be used to emphasize that […]

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Sunday Book Review

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Be warned. This is long and I’m not sure it’s worth the reading, but I enjoyed writing it, so what the heck. Most of the books I read concern events that happened a long long time ago, if not far away. Thus, they are not really appropriate for comment on this blog. The book I […]

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The memes keep on a coming

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Yet another right wing meme has sprung up about Sonia Sotomayor. Her alleged high reversal rate in the Supreme Court proves that she is far too radical to be on that court. Nate Silver demolishes math here. But I suggest that it’s wrong to buy into the basic premise. First, from a purely partisan point […]

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