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Casino Politics IFRL-TLC-War-GAPD-tate.the-shipwreck-38

Casino Politics

Erik Kain February 2, 2009
In response to Freddie, Ross Douthat writes: The issue is the risk the Democrats are taking, period,...
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Thomas Aquinas Meets The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Chris Dierkes February 2, 2009
As the League’s resident theological student, I have been a bit loathe to enter the atheism/spaghetti monster/god...
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Good show Cardinals…

Erik Kain February 2, 2009
I thought they put up a damn good fight, and it made for an incredibly intense Super...
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eating my vegetables

Freddie February 2, 2009
So you should follow Scott’s lead and read Sonny Bunch here… I have been engaged in a...
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Sunday Poem

Freddie February 1, 2009
P The Salt of the Sea by Philip Primeau Above the eastern sill of sky, at early...
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not everyone who says he’s your friend is your friend

Freddie February 1, 2009
So here’s my dilemma. Real partisanship, I mean real, nasty, cut-off-the-country’s-nose-to-spite-the-other-side’s-face partisanship, can be fun, as the...
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compromising yourself into the discussion

Freddie January 31, 2009
I feel like Ross is sort of missing the point concerning Matt Yglesias’s post that he quotes....
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Emerging From the Hedged Roe

Mark of New Jersey January 31, 2009
Larison argues, contra Linker (and me), that overturning Roe wouldn’t end the culture wars with respect to...
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Roe and the Culture War Morass

Mark of New Jersey January 31, 2009
In the comments to Chris’ excellent post on Roe v. Wade and the culture wars, I wrote:...
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Capitulation and Retreat

Erik Kain January 30, 2009
Alright, so apparently I have capitulated too much (as opposed to, say,”the blogger doth protest too much,...
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D. Linker on Culture War-Abortion

Chris Dierkes January 30, 2009
Damon Linker with a followup on the intra-left argument about whether Obama will end the culture war...
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Authority, Empathy, and Power

Erik Kain January 29, 2009
A while ago I attempted to wade through some of the differences I noticed between Cultural or...
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Stand Up Sociology

Chris Dierkes January 29, 2009
Jennifer Schuessler writing in the NyTimes Review of Books: Pity the poor Organization Man. Once upon a...
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So long, Culture11

Erik Kain January 29, 2009
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“To the Barricades!”

Mark of New Jersey January 29, 2009
This will hopefully be the only call to activism that I will ever issue at this site. ...
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Talking About the Same Thing When the Other Side Won’t

Mark of New Jersey January 29, 2009
Downblog, Kyle highlights and provides approval for a comment to my post this afternoon on the importance...
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goodbye to Culture11

Freddie January 29, 2009
If you Google “Culture11” you’ll find a ton of entries that say “My article at Culture11”. That’s...
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Beyond the Stimulus?

Chris Dierkes January 28, 2009
David Leonhardt writing in the NyTimes: But while Washington has been preoccupied with stimulus and bailouts, another,...
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Painting in broad strikes

Erik Kain January 28, 2009
Helen Rittlemeyer thinks I’m talking trash about her kind of conservatism.  In a previous post, I wrote:...
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Finding Humility for the Sake of Positive Partisanship

Guest Authors January 28, 2009
by Kyle Moore (Note: this post is MOSTLY ripped straight from my comments to one of Scott’s...
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