Day: September 7, 2012

What Progressivism Is (Updated) IFRL-TLC-Scenery-24335965295_e6ecc7b7f3_o

What Progressivism Is (Updated)

Conor P. Williams September 7, 2012

Back in 2010, Paul Ryan told Glenn Beck: …what I’ve been trying to do is indict the...

Left Unsaid: Why Barack Obama’s Convention Speech Was Far More Ambitious Than You Think IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-33177750611_cd8957647d_b

Left Unsaid: Why Barack Obama’s Convention Speech Was Far More Ambitious Than You Think

Elias Isquith September 7, 2012

There’s a lot to say about Obama’s speech last night — besides the fact that, yes, as...

Hayek and the Socialist Calculation IFRL-NaPP-Asia-02457v

Hayek and the Socialist Calculation

Guest Authors September 7, 2012

by James Hanley Apparently Hayek is in season again. James K discussed him just over a week...

SRSLY?

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SRSLY?

Kazzy September 7, 2012

Vom. My only question is: What would they have done if it had been Tebow’s number that...

The Distant Horizon: Critiquing Obama’s DNC speech. IFRL-TLC-Patterns-30097863037_f3e890341b_o

The Distant Horizon: Critiquing Obama’s DNC speech.

BlaiseP September 7, 2012

Precis: Obama’s a different man now. Gone are the stratospheric rhetorical flourishes, the transcendent promises of post-partisanship....

First round is on me, Beltway guys and gals… IFRL-NaPP-Space-nasa-superearth

First round is on me, Beltway guys and gals…

Tod Kelly September 7, 2012

As I said a while back, I’ll be in Washington DC next weekend covering the Values Voter...

The things that you can do with bread and cheese. IFRL-Plague-Karachi

The things that you can do with bread and cheese.

Murali September 7, 2012

What I will write will sound like blasphemy to many, but I say to you, it is...

Jaybird in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025There is no doubt in my mind that the party needs it and I have similar skepticism to yours. That sa…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025I don't think the inclination to shake up an aging establishment is wrong. The party needs it. What…
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Huh, he even wrote an op-ed yesterday... Here's the money: Eight years ago, the Democratic Party was…
Jaybird in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025The DNC Chair does, however. I suppose I can see his POV... Hogg doesn't get to do this as a DNC Vic…
LeeEsq in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025TL/DR of my comment: I want to hear the plot and the plan for attacking global anti-Semitism whether…
LeeEsq in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025I happen to live in an area of the United States where these people exist in large numbers and are v…
North in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025As I understand it there's a pretty sharp divide between camps of pro and anti Israeli/Jewish Trumpe…
North in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Please. Hamas had so much success in their attack in October because Bibi/Likud thought they were ta…
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025The Trumpers seem to be pretty faithful Israel supporters. Maybe you should be better at seeing them…
North in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025*shrugs* The key to not being treated like a pig fisher is not to fish any pigs. The intersectional…