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A third way

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

For the life of me I really can’t understand how people like David Sirota can deal with complete idiots like Grover Norquist: The man is a one trick idiot. I would like to suggest, however, that there is a third alternative to Obama either sticking with his original tax plan or keeping the Bush tax […]

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Some promises shouldn’t be kept

Monday, November 24, 2008

There’s been a lot of speculation about whether Obama will keep all his promises, usually from the perspective of those who are afraid that Obama won’t do what he has promised to do, e.g, end torture or exit from Iraq. After all, Obama is a politician, and although he appears to be an extraordinarily honorable […]

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Russ Feingold wants to restore the rule of law

Friday, November 14, 2008

This is one of the many reasons why an Obama victory was so important. Adam Cohen writes in the New York Times (Democratic Pressure on Obama to Restore the Rule of Law): In a Senate hearing room in September, weeks before Barack Obama won the election, a series of law professors, lawyers and civil libertarians […]

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Where should we spend our borrowed money?

Monday, November 10, 2008

Obama is being pulled in a number of directions. According to the Boston Globe, the Defense Business Board, a government board stocked with business minded civilians, he should cut spending at the Pentagon. This would, by the way, be bad news for Joe Courtney, because according to the Board, submarines are among the wasteful military […]

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