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opposition to extraordinary needs

Sunday, September 6, 2009

I’ve just read a powerful op-ed piece in the Arizona Daily Star in support of the President’s program of health care reform. It’s a good, strong piece full of passionate thinking and based in personal experience. The writer is Sarah Garrecht Gassen, the daughter of a friend and co-parishioner here in St. Louis. The heart [...]

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one-way hash

Saturday, September 5, 2009

In today’s New York Times. Charles Blow makes a point about discourse that I’ve seen made around the media for some time now. We’ve been told that the President is too cerebral. In fact that critique was close to the heart of the Clinton campaign for the Democratic nomination in 2008. Here’s Blow’s version: Conservatives [...]

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forget the greedy guts

Friday, September 4, 2009

I am perhaps more than ordinarily sensitive to bullying when it comes my way or affects a person or an institution I love or admire–and of course I would never engage in bullying, myself. So when I read a piece somewhere last week that likened he tactics of right wingnut wackos to bullying I thought, [...]

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I’ve taken it down

Monday, August 17, 2009

I’ve removed the “I stand with Obama” about health care link I had posted here. Apparently both the end of life provisions and the public option have been abandoned by the administration. Mike Allen at Politico suggests that the public option was always a mere bargaining chip and quotes Marc Armbinder of The Atlantic about [...]

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in the news a little

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

I wrote a letter to the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after spending a day at the federal court house last week. Because I expected it would be printed in the paper, if published at all, and because I didn’t see it there, I thought it had failed of its aim. But I didn’t [...]

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Dukakis replayed?

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

I’m grateful to Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith at Politico for putting me onto this video. Yesterday’s Washington Post carried a piece by Shankar Vedantem reporting on some recent research into the power of political misinformation. But a series of new experiments show that misinformation can exercise a ghostly influence on people’s minds after it [...]

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