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Myth and Reality

Monday, April 27, 2009

This has been a busy weekend for us, so we just got around to watching Thursday’s Daily Show (I record it every night on my computer). Stewart’s guest was Professor Richard Beeman, who just wrote a book about the Constitutional Convention called Plain, Honest Men. You can watch it below if you like. Stewart marveled […]

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Bring Back Fitz

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Now that Obama has kicked the torture can back to Holder, Holder could do the country a favor by kicking it on to a special prosecutor. And who would be more fit for the role than Patrick Fitzgerald, who took down Scooter Libby. He already knows the territory and has proven his bona fides. Sure, […]

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Numbers

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Yesterday I searched in vain for some authoritative accounting of the number of teabaggers that showed up for the demonstrations yesterday. It should certainly have occurred to me to check with Nate Silver at 538.com, which I did today. He says the total, across the entire country, was 262,025, with some smaller venues yet to […]

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Please sign my son’s petition

Thursday, September 25, 2008

The following is adapted from an email I, along with others, received from my son today. Please sign this petition. There is a bill introduced by Ted Kennedy and co-sponsored by our buddy Obama which will allow Teaching Assistants like myself to organize a union. It’s really important to me and will only take a […]

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Talking about rights

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Does Khalid Shaikh Mohammed — the Guantánamo detainee who claims he personally beheaded the reporter Daniel Pearl — deserve the rights he denied Mr. Pearl? Which ones? A painless execution? Exemption from capital punishment? Decent prison conditions? Habeas corpus? Such apparently unrelated questions arise in the aftermath of the vote of the environment committee of […]

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Hagee running interference for Lieberman?

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Via Think Progress we learn that John Hagee’s lawyers have demanded that youtube remove almost 120 videos featuring John McCain and Joe Lieberman’s favorite bigot. The lawyers are claiming copyright infringement, but in fact they appear to be exploiting a loophole in youtube’s policies in order to dampen viewership about Hagee as we approach the […]

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The War Prayer

Monday, May 26, 2008

Via the Washington Monthly, a Memorial Day sermon penned by Hartford’s adopted son, Mark Twain. The War Prayer:

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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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Backlogs at social security

Monday, December 10, 2007

Every once in a while I get to write about something I actually know about, and today is one of those rare days. This morning’s Times reports on the growing backlog of Social Security Disability cases. (The article was reprinted in the Day). In terms of the time I spend on my legal cases, 50% […]

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The insolubility of the Social Security non-crisis

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

As a reminder that there are no final victories in politics, there have been rumblings on the internet that the wise people in Washington are insisting that we must, before all things domestic, fix the non-existent crisis in Social Security. Kevin Drum is the latest super blogger to note that the Washington Post has been […]

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