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Has THE BOSTON GLOBE Given Jon Huntsman the Kiss of Death?
The news was big enough to flash all over the CNN screen at the pizza place that my wife and I chose to visit for an early supper last night: The Boston Globe decided to provide an endorsement to Jon Huntsman for the coming Republican primary in New...
Newt Gingrich Takes Glenn Beck to the Next Level
I rather like the way in which our vernacular has now coined a phrase for reacting to the truly bizarre: “You can’t make this shit up!” Sadly, where Middle East policy is concerned, Newt Gingrich has demonstrated that you can make it up. His...
A New Level of Demagoguery
It would appear that the most important contribution made by Sarah Palin since she first assumed a public presence as John McCain’s running mate is that she has legitimized the role of demagoguery in political processes. Initially, I had assumed...
Restructuring The’Dynamic Duo’
Yesterday I suggested that House Republican from Minnesota Michelle Bachmann had turned my “dynamic duo of demagoguery,” Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, into an “unholy trinity.” While I think that it is dangerous to assume...
Demagoguery on the Rise (again)
Apparently, my “dynamic duo of demagoguery,” Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, will have to make room for a third party, sacrificing their alliteration and becoming an “unholy trinity.” According to a report last night from Associated...
Politics And Representation
In a speech given at Munich University in 1918, Max Weber asserted that “politics” “means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.” As a...
The Shame of the Public Schools
Saturday, June 21, 2008 The Shame of the Public Schools I am used to BBC reporters showing up within a stone’s throw of where I live. Between the Circuit Court of Appeals and City Hall itself, there is almost always something happening of interest...
