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Debate 3: Horses and Tumult and Barnum – Oh My!
The “miscellaneous impressions” format worked so well last week in promoting a searching policy conversation -- let’s try it again.
1 -- The overriding theme of this debate... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Nov 4, 2012 at 8:31 am by cardinal, a resident of the Diablo neighborhood |
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House built on a sand foundation
Political campaigns are not famous for hewing to any line of ethical rectitude. The First Amendment that honors free expression is never stronger than when the subject is pol... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Sep 16, 2012 at 11:32 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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What is The Problem? The GOP is The Problem.
The first thing you need to know about Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann is where they work – at the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, respectively. Th... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 26, 2012 at 11:14 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Coming to grips with the contraception kerfuffle; and Colvin v. DSK
I have been trying to sort out the Great Contraception/Religious Liberties/Women’ Health blemish that has erupted recently. That’s not as easy a task as it ought to be, becau... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Mar 1, 2012 at 9:23 am by C. R. Mudgeon, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Their Akin-Breakin’ Hurt
I thought I was taking a late summer hiatus, based on a combination of annual dog days reveries, overseas athletic distractions, and an utterly uninspiring domestic political ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Aug 31, 2012 at 5:39 pm by Dave, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Comedy or Tragedy?
Whew – if the recent flurry of activity here on the DX Board is any indication (and it is), this week’s doings in Charlotte have heightened interest in the Presidential campai... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Sep 27, 2012 at 2:23 pm by Ann, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Pretending to resolve a make-believe crisis in a way that nobody can understand
Is everybody happy now? Relieved anyway, because we dodged a bullet, forged a compromise and snatched victory from the jaws of default? Does it make any difference:
- tha... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Aug 8, 2011 at 12:57 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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The ObamaNation
Here are some immediate thoughts arising out of last evening’s festivities – the night ended earlier than I had feared it might; that said, it takes time to formulate useful, ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Nov 10, 2012 at 12:27 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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What price retribution?
Some interesting internal conversations occur when there’s tension between two competing beliefs inside any one person’s head. For the many Californians who support both the ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 13, 2011 at 7:34 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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"If You Can Keep It"
This week's news brought an early glimpse into the inner workings of a novel species of political animal: the SuperPAC. These beasts were unleashed by the Supreme Court's 20... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 25, 2012 at 2:00 pm by Time for truth, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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It’s not your rich uncle’s 1%
What’s the first image that pops into your head when you think of the super-rich? Is it a mustachioed Monopoly card personage, a Thomas Nast cartoon fat cat, Bernie Madoff? ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 18, 2011 at 10:34 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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First Debate Drinking Game
Okay politifans, we now know from the respective debate camps that neither candidate can conjugate a verb – or communicate with more sophistication than grunts, growls and flu... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 9, 2012 at 1:25 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Supremes should play the Prop 8 case 'straight'
The cause of gay rights is a generational thing. That is, if you’re over 60, your synapses may have ossified to the point where you can’t get past the unfamiliarity of homosex... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 11:51 am by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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China’s Other Hobby
News that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been seeking to liberate data from all manner of American computing systems has dominated the high-tech news this week. I’m... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Mar 7, 2013 at 10:31 pm by Dave, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Son of Moneyball
Okay, so this week Mr. Obama got his bump, and Mr. Romney continues to demonstrate his proud amateur standing as a student of foreign affairs. It also looks like those nasty ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Sep 28, 2012 at 10:55 am by Cornelius McGillicuddy, a resident of another community |
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The Berkeley Bake-sale Blues
The world needs a Berkeley. From the Free Speech Movement (FSM) days of Mario Savio and many others, this Bay Area burg has been synonymous with Progressive politics. The camp... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 12, 2011 at 9:14 pm by Equality for all, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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The Details: Devils or Angels?
Last week, we learned that there is, indeed, now a fundamental right for individuals to keep and bear arms, supplied by the US Supreme Court in 2008 and 2010 (the precedents, ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Feb 4, 2013 at 11:54 pm by Dave, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Mudbath, Redux?
Well, I was all set to write something about Executive Orders, and how there have been almost 14,000 of them -- hoping to comfort the nervous and/or trigger-happy. Those Orde... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jan 25, 2013 at 3:46 pm by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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First Debate Recap: Christmas in October
As much as I regret the necessity, I suppose it’s time to climb down off my American League West Division Champion Oakland Athletics-induced euphoria and comment on the First ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 11, 2012 at 7:15 am by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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The Power of Appropriate Apology
There's an old story that I've heard often enough that it may be true -- it concerns a law student who had to bring her 8 year-old son to contracts class one morning. The sub... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Mar 16, 2012 at 5:50 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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It’s Not Your Founding Fathers’ First Amendment
I have always had profound respect for the First Amendment’s genius, considering it the most fundamental expression of America’s respect for individual freedom. It guards u... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 29, 2011 at 4:23 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Debate 2 Recap: the Rumpus on the Campus, or The Brawl at Town Hall
Here are some miscellaneous impressions from the rancorous second presidential debate at Hofstra U. this week. I suspect that you may want to add a few of your own.
1 --... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 24, 2012 at 9:07 pm by Unworthy petty partisan, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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Just Like a Train-wreck
A check-in is due to the slow-motion train wreck by which the GOP Faithful have been eat, err … vetting their candidates. It really has been a fascinating study in political... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Feb 21, 2012 at 8:45 am by cardinal, a resident of the Diablo neighborhood |
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Wealth, unions, the beleaguered middle class and the last cookie
As the story goes, a unionized public employee, a middle manager, and a Wall Street CEO are seated at a table, with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO takes 11 cookies, looks at ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 14, 2011 at 3:50 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Solving Medicare: Short and Long-term
On the assumption, perhaps dubious, that sanity may prevail and the House will take the debt-ceiling hostage gun from its own head, let’s look forward to other matters. I jus... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jan 15, 2013 at 8:42 am by Citizen Paine, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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