Why is Hillary Crashing?
by Sara Again, in a sense, this is a book review, the book in question being one I gave to five friends for Xmas this year. "She's No Lady: Politics, Family and International Feminism" by Arvonne...
View ArticleQuestions about a Caucus: More than you ever wanted to know.
by Sara We've had lots of questions about how a caucus works, mostly based on what various reporters in the MSM have published. I've responded to some points in EP's earlier post and various E-Mails....
View ArticleArticle III folds. But wait! Is that a sign of life in Article I?
by Kagro X The story so far: CIA tortures terror suspects, videotapes it, tells 9/11 Commission tapes don't exist, tells courts tapes don't exist, tapes do exist, court orders government not to destroy...
View ArticleDemocratic Party Rules -- Market Interest
by Sara It seems there is a growing market for an understanding of Party Rules among those carefully watching our Democratic Party Processes -- so I thought I would take up two areas of interest, the...
View ArticlePlatform Committee -- Where the Issue Lovers do Battle
by Sara Again, fair warning, what I will describe is the way the DFL in Minnesota does things. Other states have different rules. None the Less every state has a Platform Committee and a Platform...
View ArticleNewfound Transparency in Iowa [...someday]
by emptypockets I'm a little slow out of the starting gate with this one, but it seems that one of the major criticisms of the Iowa Democratic caucuses -- that the actual vote totals are kept secret --...
View ArticleMy Hypocrisy about Early Primaries
by emptypockets Iowa is overblown. And people like me are to blame. Consider three things: One, we don't know who got more votes in the Iowa Democratic caucus; we only know delegate percentages that...
View ArticleCould President Bush Become a U.S. Citizen?
by emptypockets As Republican politicians continue to focus on immigration, with DHS Secretary Chertoff imposing new requirements for border crossing (although about 5 million of the country's 12...
View ArticleUnity Pledge
by emptypockets Watching the Democratic debate, what strikes me most is how hard Clinton and Obama need to work to find a difference between them. And when they finally do differ, their views are more...
View ArticleA Political Culture approach to Obama v Clinton
by Sara The decision by some in the Kennedy Clan to endorse Obama after the SC Primary last week may have surprised many, but it shouldn't. For in a very interesting way it represents the unification...
View ArticleFDR, Some Cultural History, and the Sub-Prime Crisis
by Sara -- a reconstruction Sadly, the last version of this disappeared into Typepad Heaven. Way back when I was teaching, I used to give students zerox copies of the forclosure and bank sale notices...
View ArticleDynasty
by emptypockets Hillary Clinton made an interesting statement in the debate last night. She was asked how, as a member of one of the two families who have led the country the last 20 years, she could...
View ArticleYet More Democratic Party Rules you need to know.
By Sara As we move toward Super Duper Tuesday, and many who hope things will be decided that day, need is to know some additional obscure rules of the Democratic Party, that most years make little...
View ArticleThe Only Issue is (Still) Iraq
by emptypockets A month ago there was a spate of "sky is green" articles claiming that Iraq is no longer an important issue for voters: Iraq War Fades as an Election Issue (NPR, Dec 6) "...concerns...
View ArticleWhy Study any Detail about the New Deal, or FDR?
By Sara One thing that is quite clear -- Americans don't know a whole lot about their own History. And in many cases, what they do know, is distorted in very interesting ways. FDR is an interesting...
View ArticleOde to the Undecided Voter
by emptypockets Who are you undecided jerks who know not where you stand who in political shadows lurk and never show your hands? Are you so indecisive? Or just uninformed? I mean all due respect, but...
View ArticleNew Deal Projects that just keep pooping along
by Sara Most folk think the New Deal ended with WWII, but actually many of the projects had energy that just kept them going. And while these are not exactly world shattering, I thought I would just...
View ArticleI Never Thought I'd Vote for Hillary Clinton
by emptypockets Yesterday I was undecided, and frankly to some extent I remain so. I've read with interest the endorsements of Meteor Blades and DHinMI (both writing elsewhere for some godforsaken...
View ArticleLet's Host a Debate
by emptypockets I groaned when I heard Clinton had accepted an invitation to a Fox News Channel debate, because it is a huge distraction from what had threatened to become a substantive, engaging...
View ArticleObama won caucuses, Clinton won primaries
by emptypockets Among the most astute next-day analyses of Super Tuesday that I've seen is this one from the Votemaster at electoral-vote.com. He provides the following tables, which speak volumes: The...
View ArticleParticipatory budgeting
by emptypockets It's hard to believe that Bush's proposed budget is what anyone wants. For example, he suggests cutting half the federal funds for public broadcasting, while he spends the same amount...
View ArticleA few words for students researching Black History Month
by emptypockets I noticed over the past week that we've had an unusual amount of traffic from people searching for information about Rosa Parks (and, to their good fortune, they were finding this...
View Article100 things Congress could do that would matter more to me than steroids in...
by emptypockets The House spent some quality time this week with Roger Clemens at hearings that occupied both the attention of Representative Henry Waxman's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform...
View ArticleObama does best where Kerry did worst
or, "Who has won 'the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party'?" by emptypockets This post begins with a hypothesis: that Obama's wins have been bigger in red states than in blue states. It was based...
View ArticleLower the voting age to 17
by emptypockets I've tossed around this notion twice in passing recently, but let me take a minute to lay it out with a little (very little) more substance. Why is the voting age 18? The voting age was...
View ArticleMore Sara's Book Reviews.
by Sara One reason Sara disappears for days at a time is simple, she reads real books, and when at full speed can do about four a week. She puts new books in piles, sometimes with previously read...
View ArticleYes, Another Sara Book Review, about Neocon's
by Sara, Firedoglake had Jacob Heilbrunn as a guest about two weeks ago, and I wish I had been up with the list -- I was present during most of the discussion, but the book was still in my pile, and I...
View ArticleExiting the kingdom of reason
by emptypockets The right-wing mot du jour seems to be "socialist." Sometimes, confusingly, it is combined with "communist" or with the communistic honorific "comrade," especially to make use of the...
View ArticleIraq spending down 5% today
by emptypockets In a report today that may signal new promise for the pro-war campaign of Senator John McCain, the State Department has released figures showing a decrease in US spending in Iraq of...
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