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Kinsley – “My Country, Tis of Me – There’s nothing patriotic about the Tea Party Patriots”

Worth reading in full, as it well expresses many of the themes discusssed on this website:   “My Country, Tis of Me – There’s nothing patriotic about the Tea Party Patriots“, Michael Kinsley, The Atlantic, June 2010 — Excerpt: The Tea Party movement’s goals, when stated specifically, are mostly self-interested. And they lack poetry: cut my …

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The American public is organizing and getting involved! Are we happy now?

Please help me make sense of this.  After writing a few dozen posts about the need for the citizens of America to become more active, it looks like success at last!  Should I be happy? The good news:  more citizen involvement!  Excerpts from these appear at the end of this post. “Remember when protest was patriotic?“, …

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Biden’s gaffes are a threat to American’s complacency!

Summary:  Biden’s moments of accidental integrity threaten America’s political order, by showing that politicians can tell the truth.  What if we changed our preferences and preferred truth to lies? An emerging narrative in this campaign concerns Senator Biden’s gaffes.  As The New York Times, that ur-source for liberal narratives, says: Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the …

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