The People’s Business: “On Tuesday it (the House) took up the gay-marriage amendment. This was a meaningless exercise, except in terms of amassing political ammunition: The Senate had already defeated the amendment. Nonetheless, some members had no trouble explaining the value of the dead-end debate. ‘This is probably the best message we can give to [...]

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Daily Kos: What Did You Expect, America?: “If you put people in charge of running a project they are ideologically committed to proving a failure, it will fail. “
I would normally add something here, but I don’t think I can say it any better than SusanG so go read the whole thing

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OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan: “I note here what is to me a mystery. It is that people with lower IQs somehow tend, in our age, to have a greater apprehension of the meaning of things and the reality of life, than do our high-IQ professionals, who often seem, in areas outside their immediate field, startlingly [...]

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Blowing the Whistle on Diebold — In These Times: ““The single greatest threat to our democracy is the insecurity of our voting system,” warns Kennedy. “Whoever controls the voting machines can control who wins the votes.””
After reading his article in Rolling Stone I was impressed, now it looks like a new champion of election fairness [...]

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