Assassination Attempt In Arizona

Posted on January 9, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Nouriel Roubini

Posted on January 9, 2011 by stephenkmacksd
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/roubini32/English#
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Nancy Pearl: LJ’s 2011 Librarian of the Year

Posted on January 9, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Libraries and librarians are essential to a vital civic life. They provide a service that I’m grateful for every day.Public sector workers are contributors to the quality of my life and the lives of my fellow citizens. Celebrate the contributions of public sector workers who make our lives better by just doing their jobs.

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television the drug of the nation – Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy

Posted on January 9, 2011 by stephenkmacksd
http://www.youtube.com/v/y630HsczBI8&hl=en&fs=1

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Slick Rick & Doug E Fresh – The Show – 1985

Posted on January 9, 2011 by stephenkmacksd
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Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Guy Just Drove Over a Body (giggle)

Posted on January 8, 2011 by stephenkmacksd
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Our global Oligarchs

Posted on January 8, 2011 by stephenkmacksd
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/01/income_inequality
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Jennifer Rubin : Public Reason, Authority and Neo-Conservatism

Posted on January 8, 2011 by stephenkmacksd
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/left_right_center_the_112th_congress_and_you_20110107/

Jennifer Rubin in her seemingly casual aside, a maladroit put- down, of questioning Robert Scheer and what planet he is on, gives a revelatory view of the Political Theology at the center of Neo-Conservativism. To call it a Theology is not a misnomer but a naming of the core belief of the Neo-Conservative Phenomenology; as the re-definition of Public Reason, as inherent in centers of authority. And not located in the Enlightenment , the Kantian, concept of Public Reason,  defined as the sum of the interactions of self-legislating beings, always subject to the ethical interactions of conflicting imperatives ;meeting in conversations – a continuing evolutionary process , mediated by a debate among political equals, and enlivened by constant intellectual interchange. Ms. Rubin, in her statement of challenge to Mr. Scheer, demonstrates her self-elect status , as arbiter and bearer of this new definition of Public Reason ; as residing in her as person: and as not subject to debate or question: an ideology with its center in belief .Her flinty rhetorical style, enmeshed in an a priori rightness,  is , then, a product of her Political Romanticism, an American echo of Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss and her American precursors Norman Podheretz and Irving Kristol: Plato’s Republic being the root of this ‘new’ form of nihilistic political paternalism.
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Matt Taibbi: The Crying Shame of John Boehner | Rolling Stone Politics

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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VersoBooks.com

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

As 2011 opens, Geoffrey Wheatcroft offers a sombre assessment on the current political and economic malaise in the Guardian, contrasting the reality of the post-Cold War order with the euphoric claims made twenty years ago: Continue reading →

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