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A Plea for Engagement IFRL-Mindiv-26269642200_21005720c6_o

A Plea for Engagement

Will April 15, 2009
Via the American Conservative, I see that Sean Scallon’s challenging article on Jimmy Carter is getting some...
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Poor Brother Mark just can’t get any respect… IFRL-Mindiv-26476433351_66eb12b90d_b

Poor Brother Mark just can’t get any respect…

Dave April 15, 2009
If it isn’t the intellectually-challenged on the Right accusing him of applauding Hamas’ rationality and descending into the darkness...
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pentecostalization

Chris Dierkes April 14, 2009
In honor of the Easter weekend I suppose, the Sunday Magazine lead article in the NyTimes this...
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I’ll Take Getting the Econ Crisis Wrong for $2,000 Alex IFRL-TLC-Scenery-alice-pasqual-182043-unsplash

I’ll Take Getting the Econ Crisis Wrong for $2,000 Alex

Chris Dierkes April 14, 2009
Sorry Mr. President this just isn’t right: The heart of this financial crisis is that too many...
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Call to Arms

Will April 14, 2009
I think conservatives are justifiably upset by the Department of Homeland Security’s recent report on right-wing domestic...
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tech bleg

Freddie April 14, 2009
So I’m the kind to always build my own PCs from parts, cause I hate paying a...
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There’s GAAP and then there’s GAAAP IFRL-NaPP-Space-31528824221_9af60ea3ba_c

There’s GAAP and then there’s GAAAP

Dave April 14, 2009
When I was in my graduate finance program many years ago, the accounting professors told us that...
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quote of the day

Erik Kain April 14, 2009
It must have been caused by a gay marriage in Vermont! ~commenter jaycbird over at Dreher’s digs,...
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Correctly Political: Tea and Sympathy for the Devil You Know IFRL-TLC-War-kris-cros-1194186-unsplash

Correctly Political: Tea and Sympathy for the Devil You Know

Guest Authors April 14, 2009
“Children’s Tea Party,” Morton H. B. Bly, 1919 by jfxgillis R.S.V.P. Wednesday, April 15th, Tax Day (reminder...
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Fragmentation

Will April 13, 2009
Esteemed co-blogger Chris Dierkes has a challenging post on the democratic process. Here’s a decent summary: In...
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you can’t be a pacifist if you haven’t got a war to fight IFRL-NaPP-Asia-800px-Qiu_Ying_-_Spring_Morning_in_the_Han_Palace_-_Walters_3548_-_View_A

you can’t be a pacifist if you haven’t got a war to fight

Erik Kain April 13, 2009
Kyle Cupp has this to say about my professed culture-war pacifism:
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Abu-Jamal and the Costs of Reflexive Anti-Leftism IFRL-Plague-Cleansing

Abu-Jamal and the Costs of Reflexive Anti-Leftism

Freddie April 13, 2009
In the interests of showing that I will disagree as loudly with my friends as with my...
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the local school district today

Erik Kain April 13, 2009
…is laying off all the school psychologists, school counselors, art teachers, music teachers, theatre teachers, P.E. teachers,...
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The Practical Art of Possible Interests IFRL-TLC-War-GAPD-reinasofia.women-at-the-siege-of-the-alcazar-in-toledo-447

The Practical Art of Possible Interests

Chris Dierkes April 13, 2009
Señor Payne a few posts down shrewdly argues that political hyper-partisanship is a outgrowth of laziness.  He...
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It strikes me… IFRL-TLC-War-vasilios-muselimis-796905-unsplash

It strikes me…

Erik Kain April 13, 2009
…that these “Tea Parties” are nothing more than GOP leftover rallies from a population still deeply absorbed...
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The Futility of Protesting IFRL-TLC-Religion-GAPD-altesnational.the-blinded-samson

The Futility of Protesting

Mark of New Jersey April 13, 2009
Andrew Sullivan has been taking flak from movement conservatives (what else is new?) for calling the Tea...
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pacifism and the culture wars

Erik Kain April 13, 2009
“Saving” marriage obviously means objecting to gay-marriage. But what does this have to do with abortion? Can...
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Sunday Poem Series, on Easter IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-vangogh.along-the-seine-38

Sunday Poem Series, on Easter

Freddie April 12, 2009
from Poems of the Naming of Places by William Wordsworth …we advanc’d Along the indented shore; when...
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Cute, but… IFRL-NaPP-Asia-Yoshitoshi-Raiko

Cute, but…

Dave April 11, 2009
Nice try… Then we have to rip our eyes away from the inferior distractions like the League...
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weird

Erik Kain April 10, 2009
Stare at those circles for a minute.  Trippy…
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