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Archive for the ‘Barack Obama’ Category
Posted: Saturday, February 11th, 2012 at
5:34 am
2 Comments »
Time to start a discussion on it.
Posted: Monday, February 6th, 2012 at
11:57 am
15 Comments »
Adam Gopnik’s moral outrage about the shameful level of incarceration in the U.S. is right on target. However, the analysis in his New Yorker article is weak in multiple places, most notably in missing the biggest story going in incarceration these days. At the time President Obama was elected, the incarcerated population in the U.S. [...]
Posted: Monday, January 30th, 2012 at
3:09 am
Tags: adam gopnik
23 Comments »
This video is the most elegant iteration I’ve seen of the dialogue on the left about the President. What’s so amazing about “Barack Hussein Obama,” written and directed by Jamil Khoury, is that both sides are treated with respect. And what a shame that should be amazing! Khoury is Artistic Director of the Chicago theater [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at
8:48 am
Tags: Barack Obama, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Obama, Terrorism
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Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both ran on a platform of reducing the size and scope of government, yet federal spending — including social welfare spending — grew substantially during their presidencies. Cognizant of those historical examples, some political observers scoff at the notion that a Republican Presidential victory in 2012 will change very [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at
3:24 am
13 Comments »
Steve Benen at Washington Monthly, writing about the GOP caucus winner at midnight last night Tonight’s big winner is obvious: his name is Barack Obama. Woo-hoo! Remember ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here first.
Posted: Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 at
4:54 am
2 Comments »
Sometimes humor is the best way to make a serious point. It’s sad that this is one such case.
Posted: Sunday, December 25th, 2011 at
7:25 pm
11 Comments »
My post about “African-American Liberals Know How to Love Their President” drew many comments here at RBC, and also at Washington Monthly, where it was cross-posted. Strikingly, while most RBC readers are almost certainly white, most people who posted comments on the Washington Monthly website self-identified as African-American. If you followed this post and this [...]
Posted: Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at
3:14 am
40 Comments »
Jonathan Chait’s much-discussed essay in New York magazine indicted the left for being perennially, loudly and unrealistically disappointed in Democratic Presidents. In Chait’s view, much of the left ignores the constraints on Presidential power (e.g., Congress, of which Drew Westen et al seem to be in ignorance) and doesn’t have the stomach or attention span [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at
11:30 am
Tags: Jonathan Chait
39 Comments »
Barack Obama lays down his marker on the most pressing issue of our times.
Posted: Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at
3:11 pm
53 Comments »