brendan's stuff - tagged with politics

America's debt: Shame on them | The Economist

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:12:00 -0400

The Robbers Cave Experiment - Less Wrong

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:01:00 -0500

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” — Isaac Asimov : politics

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:51:00 -0400

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” — Isaac Asimov

Put up or shut up - Roger Ebert's Journal

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:08:00 -0400

A letter to my students « The Reality-Based Community

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:48:00 -0400

AZspot

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:44:00 -0400

We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief. Nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief. At the same time as our constitution prohibits state religion, establishment of it protects the free exercise of all religions. And walking this fine line requires government to be strictly neutral. Ronald Reagan

King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein (1882-1951)

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:11:00 -0400

Classically Liberal: Tea Party, neither tea nor a party.

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:59:00 -0400

Government Spending

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:09:00 -0400

Op-Ed Columnist - An Absence of Class in the G.O.P. - NYTimes.com

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:18:00 -0400

Tear down the wall of silence in the Roman Catholic Church. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:09:00 -0400

Colorado Springs cuts into services considered basic by many - The Denver Post

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:59:00 -0400

Why don't honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News? - washingtonpost.com

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:14:00 -0500

The gathering storm - Roger Ebert's Journal

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:49:00 -0500

daggatt blog: boehner vs. boehner

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:37:00 -0500

They think they win if our government -- and the country -- fails.

The Guerilla Post: A Frightened Nation Is A Dead One

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:45:00 -0500

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

Politics Magazine | Nanotargeted Pressure

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:49:00 -0500

Republicans on Government Cheese - Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - True/Slant

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:27:00 -0500

An Aggregation of Nincompoops | Foreign Policy

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:03:00 -0500

Viewed from across the pond, the U.S. government seems at best incompetent and at worst a joke.

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, the massachusetts election results prove everything i've been saying all along | Politics | The American Scene

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:33:00 -0500

Meanwhile all precedents seemingly at odds with my national political proclivities were unique, and should be ignored.