Last night I actually bothered to watch the Democratic debate. Often times I just rely on the reports, but next week I actually get to vote, so I thought it was high time to check in. I thought both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did very well, and I’m still undecided. But for this post, […]
Unfortunately, it’s likely going to be light posting for the first half of this week. As for today, on the civil liberties front, there is a big showdown today over the FISA bill. Check out Glenn Greenwald for a rundown and ongoing coverage. Update As a follow-up to my earlier posts on the importance of […]
As I move forward with this project of simply stating my liberal beliefs, it’s important to remember a couple of people who have done the job so ably before. John Kennedy, 1960, accepting the New York Liberal Party nomination: What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label “Liberal?” If by “Liberal” […]
In two posts yesterday (here and here), I tried to lay out what I thought the conservative movement was all about. I also said progressive liberals needed to watch out because, to my mind, they still don’t have a simple, easy-to-remember, easy-to-repeat message on what they stand for. I don’t think I’ll reach a conclusion […]
Check out this report today from the Center for Public Integrity. It’s a systematic cataloging of the “false statements” made by Bush administration officials in the run up to the Iraq War. You can find lots of media coverage out there today on the study. I haven’t had a chance to read the entire report, […]
Shows you where I’ve been the last couple of years – up to my eyeballs in multiple moves and raising kids. Apparently there was a dust-up over liberals and libertarians back in the summer of 2006. The other day I linked to a post from a libertarian leader who looked at ways that liberals and […]
Yesterday, I quickly outlined some of my political beliefs. In total, according to my reading of current political definitions, they make me a liberal. But admittedly some of those beliefs tend toward the traditionally conservative side. So, doesn’t that make me a centrist? No. I absolutely reject that label. First of all, it’s meaningless. Supposedly […]
I got to thinking more yesterday about how Google Adsense has connected the content of my blog to conservative advertisers, here (scroll down to the bottom). Maybe the machine is on to something. So what makes me a liberal? Well, as I’ve explained earlier, some things that I think are classically conservative have ended up […]
Today I found an interesting article written more than a year ago by Brink Lindsey. He’s the vice president for research at the libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute. This is normally not a person, nor a organization, that I would have found myself agreeing with. For a long time now, libertarians have been avid […]
Torture is immoral and more Referencing my earlier post, torture is immoral. Period. But on top of that, it’s ineffective and illegal. Oh, and it’s simple to define, too. Just listen to the head of U.S. intelligence. And on what I see as a related note, the head of the U.S. military wants to close […]
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