Day: November 30, 2009

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conservatism and society

Erik Kain November 30, 2009

CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes...

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Public Service Announcement

Will November 30, 2009

League co-blogger Jamelle is kicking it over at The American Prospect’s group blog this week.

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Podcast: The Golden Age of Television

Will November 30, 2009

I sat down with Freddie and Sonny Bunch, film critic for the Washington Times and a blogger...

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healthcare reform and the appeal to emotion

Erik Kain November 30, 2009

“There are actual sick people with actual families feeling actual pain and facing actual tragedy because of...

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love and blogging

Erik Kain November 30, 2009

William’s post reminds me of love, or of the process of falling in and out of love...

can’t win by not losing The Catholic Church

can’t win by not losing

Freddie November 30, 2009

In shocking news, a conservative thinks that America’s political future is conservative. Honestly, sometimes I think that...

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Did the Tar Heels invent the forward pass?

William Brafford November 30, 2009

My Tar Heels had a rough day in football this weekend, losing to NC State by a...

Dark Matter in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 7/7/25Prohibition? There are legal ways to immigrate. Which doesn't change that we have vast numbers of pe…
David TC in reply to DensityDuck on A Steelman Case for “Abundance” (As Opposed to What We’ll Actually Get.)Man, if only we had some sort of worldwide information source we could look all this up on. So it tu…
David TC in reply to DensityDuck on A Steelman Case for “Abundance” (As Opposed to What We’ll Actually Get.)ah-hem. “the money wasn’t intended to actually do anything” is maybe not the best defense you could…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Grok AI’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad DayHere’s a really good post that kind of gets into this, kind of. That is actually a very bad and unin…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Grok AI’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad DayI just want to make one point abundantly clear: We’re not in “intelligence” territory yet. We probab…
David TC in reply to Koz on Open Mic for the Week of 7/7/25In fact the whole idea of being a hit piece is disingenuous because if it were, it should have been…
David TC in reply to DensityDuck on Open Mic for the Week of 7/7/25The President ordering the burglary of his political opponent is at least 20% more newsworthy than a…
Slade the Leveller on Open Mic for the Week of 7/7/25No group is adding more grease to the skids of authoritarianism than law enforcement. https://www.nb…
David TC in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 7/7/25I think it’s more a matter of appreciating that what is said on this subject is heard by more than o…
David TC in reply to DensityDuck on Open Mic for the Week of 7/7/25Drinking almost completely stopped in America, and when it returned it was a completely different ch…