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A Building occupied at NYU

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Yesterday my wife took advantage of her weekly furlough day to visit Son #2 in New York. She met him around lunchtime. Turns out he was fresh from occupying a building at NYU, which the authorities appear to have re-taken shortly after he exited to keep his date with his Mom. The tactics were oddly […]

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Burris implodes

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Politicians are amazing people. Roland Burris is pretty obviously a serial liar. His story has changed from day to day, gravitating ever so slowly toward an admission that there was some sort of quid pro quo for his Senate seat. Here is a guy who could have lived out a respectable life and gone on […]

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President’s Day

Monday, February 16, 2009

Somewhat coincidentally, I spent this weekend reading two books about presidents. The first was Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation, Washington, Adams and Jefferson, a quirky and witty book about our first three presidents. The second was George McGovern’s Abraham Lincoln, which I picked up at the book signing event we went to on Friday. I […]

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Republicans Fiddling

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A little video from a site called While Rome Burns:

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Well that was a surprise

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The stimulus plan got exactly zero Republican votes in the House. In order to get those votes, Obama and the Democrats added useless tax cuts, and subtracted family planning funding, etc. Now, if Obama expected this, and has some long term strategy to capitalize on it, fine. But if he really thought he could get […]

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Legalities

Saturday, January 10, 2009

One must wonder if the Democrats have given any thought to the implications of the position they are taking regarding the Burris appointment to the Senate. At this point, they are clinging to the claim that a gubernatorial appointment isn’t legal until it is certified by the Secretary of State of Illinois. The Illinois Supreme […]

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Caroline Kennedy’s candidacy

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

By no means am I a Caroline Kennedy partisan. I will lose no sleep if she is not appointed to the Senate. Nonetheless I’m a bit mystified at the heated opposition her “candidacy” has generated in certain corners of the blogosphere, particularly at Firedoglake. In the latest piece on the subject, “Eli” argues that a […]

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Franken lead swells

Saturday, January 3, 2009

The recount is, as far as I can see, over, and Franken is ahead by 225 votes. You can watch the proceedings at theuptake.org.

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Blago makes a nomination

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Indicted Governor Rod Blagojevich has picked someone to replace Barack Obama, and Harry Reid has vowed to make sure he is never seated. It seems that Harry is at his best when he’s riding herd on fellow Democrats. You might recall that the only filibuster he quashed in 2008 was one led by Chris Dodd. […]

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Coleman, Franken, and partisanship

Friday, December 19, 2008

It looks like Al Franken may be winning the recount in Minnesota. While I was trolling the net this morning I came across this article at Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone about the recount, Coleman and Franken. It’s a fun article, and well worth a read. Taibbi makes a point at the […]

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