Tag Archives: Politics

Living for History

I had a conversation with a visiting researcher today, who noted the early 19th century newspaper on my desk and said that he thought it was really worth reading contemporaneous newspapers because you got a lot better feeling for what it might have been like to live through events, before they became “history.” In retrospect, […]
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More on paid-blogging

I want to clarify a bit on the paid blogging front, and particularly on Marqui’s approach. Some (not Ms. Lawley) have privately suggested that I was being overly critical of mamamusings by labeling her decisions to take payment from Marqui as a “sell out.” I want to make clear that this was a bit tongue-in-cheek. […]
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Can’t blame the youth

Better make sure your kids don’t say anything “anti-American,” or you may be questioned as a potential terrorist: Loudoun County sheriffs investigate 11 year-old national security risk. Read through some of the comments there. Several of them suggest that it is completely appropriate to question the parents of a child who doesn’t like Marines, to […]
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A stand up deist

There are limits to tolerance. Especially when certain archaic beliefs threaten to darken our society and roll back the enlightenment. I am talking, of course, about religion. A recent Cornell survey found that nearly a third of Americans are interested in curtailing the civil rights of Muslim-Americans. 29% thought that undercover agents should infiltrate Muslim […]
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