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Politico Magazine: How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment
This is an excellent read. Cut to 1977. Gun-group veterans still call the NRA’s annual meeting that year the “Revolt at Cincinnati.” After the organization’s leadership had decided to move its headquarters to Colorado, signaling a retreat from politics, more than a thousand angry rebels showed up at the annual…
EJ Dionne: No more liberal apologies as Elizabeth Warren takes the offensive
Over at the Washington Post, EJ Dionne has an excellent piece on how Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is going on the offensive and calling for an end to the era of liberal apologies. Since the Reagan era, Democrats have been so determined to show how pro-market and pro-business they are…
Paul Fanlund: “[Scott Walker] is a small, divisive, narrow-minded career politician”
This is very well-written. No, Walker’s legacy will not be what he accomplished, which is negligible, but how badly he has divided us. Sadly, there is no longer a bipartisan or independent quality to Wisconsin; Walker can claim that as his most enduring handiwork. Walker’s ideological agenda has ignored our…
The Hideous and Insidious – A Glimpse at the Sinuous 1% (Part Two)
The 1% Propaganda Echo Chamber reverberates… a microcosm: Matt Kibbe tweets an article by Tyler Cowen, see The Hideous and Insidious – A Glimpse at the Sinuous 1% (Part One). Tyler Cowen tweets an article by Libertarian faux-populist extraordinaire, Ross Douthat: A Bad Way to Bash Republicans. And to continue from The…
Lessons from Recent History: The Origins of Deinstitutionalization
Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness: As president and governor of California, the GOP icon led the worst policies on mental illness in generations – Dr. E. Fuller Torrey One month prior to the [1980 presidential] election, President Carter had signed the Mental Health Systems Act,…
Today’s GOP: drifting towards irrelevance?
This is absolutely worth a read… “Their rigidity is killing them. It’s either holy purity, or you are anathema,” Tom Korologos, a premier Republican lobbyist and the ambassador to Belgium under George W. Bush, said in a phone interview. “Too many ideologues have come in. You don’t win by what…
WEAC: The Problem with Merit Pay
From the email box: The Problem with Merit Pay In the brave new world of Act 10, many school districts are contemplating “merit pay” or “pay for performance” systems. The following is a WEAC Research Brief summarizing the evidence on merit pay programs for educators. The actual evidence shows: Merit…
What’s the Deal with Progressives and Sexism?
Two of my favorite liberal women talked with me about my earlier post: What’s the Deal with Progressives and Agism? I was so tuned into the issue of agism in progressive politics, partly because I am of the generation of Americans being dissed, that I may have overlooked another issue…
What’s the Deal with Progressives and Agism?
Just about a year ago, a candidate for local office visited Drinking Liberally to present a case for being elected over the long term incumbent. One of the knocks on the incumbent was the officeholder’s age put him out of touch with the district. Looking around the room at all…
Whither thou goest Governor Walker?
Fresh off his triumphant speaking tour at the President Ronald Reagan Library in California, where he unveiled his vision for the coming Wisconsin legislative session…Governor Scott Walker announced his own listening tour in Wisconsin…all’s well except this from Facebook from our friend Erik Kirkstein: Yesterday, Scott Walker announced the kickoff…
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