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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 15, 2011 5 Comments

As a history and philosophy major, I have to go through a battery of names and concepts in class in order to understand the more advanced concepts. I don't think I would be able to complete half the background work that I do without Wikipedia,...

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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 15, 2011 5 Comments

Last week, I reported that a Kennedy miniseries had been nixed. Now it seems the plot has thickened:"America's most iconic political dynasty is at the centre of a censorship scandal after a TV network suddenly dropped a multi-million dollar series giving a warts-and-all look at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2011 4 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2011 5 Comments

No, not Michael Bloomberg, Barack Obama:Bracing for a half-billion-dollar onslaught of outside GOP cash in 2012, President Barack Obama’s advisers are quietly working to bring back together the major donor base that produced a record-breaking fundraising haul in his first run for president...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2011 16 Comments

And does not immunize you from criticism when you do.From Democracy Now, Tuscon shooting victim Eric Fuller says:It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target. Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled—senseless hatred leading to murder, lunatic...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 14, 2011 17 Comments

A few days ago, I saw the results from the Seasteading Institute's business plan contest. Many of you are probably asking what Seasteading is and why it has an institute. Simply put, The Seasteading Institute (TSI) led by Patri Friedman (the grandson of Milton), is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2011 37 Comments

Sarah Palin has come under criticism for using the term "a blood libel" to refer to the accusations that she incited Jared Loughner to murder in Tucson.I previously explained why Palin's use of the term was consistent with modern usage, and how the criticism of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2011 67 Comments

Obama's speech at the Tucson memorial was an opportunity thrust upon him, not one of choice.But the tone of the speech was consistent in many ways with the Obama 2.0 we saw during the lame duck session when Obama struck a tax deal with Republicans. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 14 Comments

Ronald Reagan's televised address to the nation after the Challenger disaster in 1986 touched the nation as few other presidential addresses have.  Reagan's speech text was a masterpiece of brevity and eloquence, but it was the presentation which touched the nation.  Simplicity was the order of the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 13, 2011 21 Comments

Kay Bailey Hutchison announced today that she will not be seeking re-election for her Senate position. According to Hutchison, she has known this for quite some time. Considering the fact that she ran against Rick Perry for the governorship last year, I doubt that is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 13 Comments

From ABC News:President Obama’s dramatic news at last night’s memorial service in Tucson that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ has just minutes before opened her left eye for the first time since the shooting has created some confusion in light of news from doctors that Giffords “could...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 15 Comments

As I posted yesterday, I thought Obama gave a good speech at the Tucson memorial.  The mainstream media, which has been seeking a way to redeem Obama's presidency, is portraying the speech as turning point in which Obama brought us all together, in contrast to...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 13, 2011 8 Comments

In the list of egregious statements made about the Arizona shooting, many media personalities have been embarrassingly (or should be embarrassed, anyway) wrong about the nature of the shooter as details have been uncovered. While I don't really care much about their opinions, aside from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 63 Comments

I'm not sure if the various death wishes for Sarah Palin made on Twitter and Facebook, as a result of false accusations that Palin's electoral target map caused the Tucson shooting, constitute death threats.  Saying you hope someone is killed seems to walk right up...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 24 Comments

I thought Obama's speech at the memorial for the Tucson shooting victims was a good speech, better in writing than in delivery, which is unusual for him.The pep rally atmosphere was strange, but I learned long ago that people grieve in their own ways.  And...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 67 Comments

I linked earlier to a YouTube video montage [video removed, see update below] of death wishes tweeted about Sarah Palin after various bloggers maliciously linked Palin's electoral target map to the Tucson shooting.Now YouTube is threatening to pull the video because one of the people who...

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