Kos as Thug
I have been a Kos reader for several months now, and a strong Obama supporter. But these sentences from Kos's recent entry "No, We're Not Being Played" have given me pause: "I'm not about to revert to...
View ArticleOn Leadership and the Bailout
While the first debate was an important moment in this campaign, one in which Obama clearly came across as thoughtful and informed, voters might have found out far more about leadership from watching...
View ArticleIdentifying the Alma Mater of Political Criminals
Isn't it about time that the universities of economic and political ethics violators be publicly identified? Shouldn't the public get an opportunity to find out which universities spawned those...
View ArticleOn Ruralism
The word "ruralism" follows the pattern of "racism" or "sexism" -- it is a prejudice against people in rural areas. I love DailyKos and read it every day, but this site, like progressives in general,...
View ArticleHow Ruralism Works (and Why We Should Care)
This past Saturday, I posted a diary entitled "On Ruralism," in which I defined the idea of "ruralism" as following the pattern of the words "racism" or "sexism": a prejudice against people in rural...
View ArticleMission Accomplished?
Does anybody remember Osama bin Laden's election eve 2004 speech in which he said that the goal of the attack on the World Trade Center was to bankrupt the US? "[It is] easy for us to provoke and bait...
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