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Xenophobia significant in America? Yes, MHO

By amike on Thu, 06/28/2007 - 10:46pm |
I’ve had better days in the fight for things in which I believe deeply. Nathan Newman began a chain noting a religious split on the question of immigration. I wrote a bit about this over there. I felt rather lonely–far...
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This story needs circulation Right Wing Blogger Sues and Wins

By amike on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 11:23pm |
Right-Winger Sues Blogger And Wins -- Lee Kaplan writes at David Horowitz's far-right, anti-Muslim FrontPageMag.com. A college student set up the blog Lee Kaplan Watch to expose what the guy is writing. He was sued by Kaplan in small claims...
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National Public Radio Hawks Huckabee

By amike on Thu, 06/14/2007 - 6:19pm |
This morning’s Morning Edition featured a puff piece on Mike Huckabee, the title of which on the NPR web page is Huckabee's Appeal Doesn't Help Presidential Bid . The paragraph introducing the story on the web reads: Republican presidential candidate...
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Reason and Rhetoric Take Back America 2007

By amike on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 1:29pm |
About this time next week I’ll be rubbing shoulders with some of America’s most exciting progressive/liberal spokesmen and activists at the 2007 Take Back America Conference. I know I’ll wish I could clone myself, because there will be simultaneous sessions...
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Aristotle Chimes in on the Immigration Debate

By amike on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 3:27pm |
Well, actually he doesn’t, but he said some things worth considering, I think. And they came to mind as I read Nathan Newman’s entry, What looks like a Crappy Immigration Deal. I’m going to come to this in my usual...
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Aren't We All Working Class?

By amike on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 1:55am |
I hiked about three or four miles down a bike path converted from an abandoned rail spur this afternoon, with the object of visiting my next door neighbor. I could have visited him by walking the thirty plus feet from...
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Aristotle Meets Goldilocks

By amike on Fri, 05/11/2007 - 2:58pm |
I do O.K. with Aristotle. Modern philosophers, especially the more mathematical ones sometimes give me the heebie-jeebies. I noticed a few years ago that Aristotle has an affinity to Goldilocks. For him, the Virtuous Mean lay between extremes of deficiency...
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Patron: Eumenides? Tailor: Why, Euripides?

By amike on Mon, 05/07/2007 - 3:27pm |
Have the groans subsided yet? One hopes to be forgiven, eventually. The university at which I work requires a core history/political studies course of all freshmen, the faculty for which are provided by the history and political science departments. As...
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To Blog or Not to Blog?

By amike on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 2:32pm |
Hamlet like, I’ve tossed this idea back and forth in my mind for some time now. Do I have anything of interest to put before the readers at TPM Café? Am I obsessive enough to keep at it? Is my...

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