Words of One Syllable Dept.

Can Daily Kos Control Dems? – Newsweek Politics – MSNBC.com: July 3-10, 2006 issue – Markos Moulitsas Zuniga is sitting on his back porch in Berkeley, Calif., listening to the hummingbirds and explaining his plans to seize control of the Democratic Party.

So this is what they use to make Rhodes Scholars out of…

You’d think he’d know that we have very insufficient data on something as complex as the weather to be making such huge pronouncements like “Global warming exists” even… The Zero Point: Bill Clinton, Weatherman: The other day when Bill Clinton, at a Democratic fundraiser in Florida, used the dread of approaching tropical storm Alberto to Continue reading So this is what they use to make Rhodes Scholars out of…

Political identity

Via Ace of Spades HQ… May be obvious to some, but this occurred to me (perhaps late) a year or so ago. Real politics — the way most feel and experience politics — is less about “issues” than it is about social-group tribalism. And I don’t think there’s a huge difference between liberals and conservatives Continue reading Political identity