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Author: Paul Campos

Double standards

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On September 3, 2008
My Sarah Palin theory is here. I don't like to harp on the "imagine if Obama or Hillary" meme, but this situation really cries out for comparisons.Imagine if Hillary had done what Palin did when Palin had her most recent child. This would needless to...

The Vegan Threat

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On September 1, 2008

Glenn Greenwald is doing yeoman's work regarding the use of state terror to quash the possibility of dissent at the RNC. Now admittedly to this point it's what might be.

Palinland

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On August 31, 2008
I'm currently reading Nixonland, Rick Perlstein's brilliant cultural history of the United States through the lens of the rise and fall and rise again of Richard Nixon (I don't know yet if he gets to the final fall). Perlstein documents how Nixon invented and refined...

We Had a Dream

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On August 28, 2008

It's s a beautiful morning in Boulder, and later today I'm going to take a bus the 25 miles down the turnpike to Denver and Invesco Field, to hear Barack.

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Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself

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On August 27, 2008
. . . when you're old enough to repay, but young enough to sell?I gather Alex Rodriguez was booed mercilessly last night for single-handedly destroying the Yanqui season. NYY seems headed towards a dodgy transitional year or three (ARod will be 34 next summer and...

Joe Biden, Drug Warrior

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On August 24, 2008
Radley Balko points out that Biden's voting record on drug issues in particular and civil liberties in general is quite bad. (Edit: As a couple of commentators have noted, Biden's overall civil liberties record isn't as bad as Balko is making it out to be).FWIW...

Roe v. Kuhn

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On August 20, 2008

One way of sorting out peoples' politics of law is to ask them if they find Harry Blackmun's opinion for the Court in Roe v. Wade or Flood v. Kuhn.

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