Blog Archive: April, 2008

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Some Hump-Day Quick HIts

USA Today and AOL team up for a useful overview of the latest E. read more »

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Time Magazine: McCain's "Radical" Health Care Plan

One journalist makes clear what McCain's health plan would really do. Will others follow? read more »

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The Capital Gains Tax Question Charlie Gibson Should Have Asked

My column last week criticizes ABC's Charlie Gibson for using his position as debate moderator to focus the presidential discourse on the supposed unfairness of asking very wealthy people to pay the same tax rate on their stock profits as their servants pay on hard earned wages. read more »

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Way Past Time To Lock Up Guilt-By-Association Politics

The guilt-by-association standard hurts our politics, no matter who you support. read more »

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My Father's Eyes

It's easy to say "things like that don't happen any more." But we all know better. I was raised on it, and even when my father reminded me that I — as a black male — would not be treated the same as a white male my age, I knew enough not to even try to say he was wrong. He wasn't wrong then, and he isn't wrong now. And if the day comes when I must have the same conversation with one of my sons that my father had with me that day, will I be wrong? Will that marrow-deep intuition — that knowing — finally be wrong? read more »

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Coveted Big Con Of The Week!™ nomination

It's early, but here's my nomination for Coveted Big Con Of The Week!™

Petition signatures are just about due for Ward Connelly's anti-affirmative action initiative in Missouri.

And guess what? Ward's cheating.

From the Rocky Mountain News read more »

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Pentagon Propaganda Still Lurks

The Pentagon "temporarily suspends" its "military analyst" propaganda program, but there's no reason to think anything will actually change. read more »

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Be very afraid

The Christian right is raising the alarm against Oprah Winfrey. read more »

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NotSo! — and a new request

The response was spectacular to my first call for your own your own favorite conservative NotSo's: oft-repeated conservative clichés that in fact are patently false. There are several new utterances of the NotSo! description every day, and I've got a new request for Big Con readers. read more »

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Today In Issues To Be Ignored

What pressing issues facing our country do the pundits think you don't care about today? read more »