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11/06/09
11/06/09
Nobody puts Modo in the corner . . . unless there's a fifth of scotch in it. #media
11/06/09
One assumes that she got her invite because like a lot of Americans, Ms Liasson has been the White House staffers' commuter buddy for years #media
11/07/09
11/06/09
09/18/09
and is he conveniently the only one that found birthers and black family reunion peeps sharing the mall that day. [btw, racists are usually find buying stuff from people they don't like or disparage or they feel are different and deserve less).
finally, he just happened to go jogging there. he did not go himself.
yeh.
09/18/09
09/19/09
David - Isn't the heart of your column, the rurals resent being judged and bossed by the urbans, who think they're smarter. And isn't that what you've done?
09/18/09
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09/18/09
09/18/09
Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer wrote an article calling people un-American for "drowning out opposing views" when those very people were trying to express opposing views on health care reform. I'd call that the same ballpark. Sharpton urged "decent" Americans to not allow health care reform to be turned into a "racial issue". Jimmy Carter basically said that the majority of people who disagree with the President are racists. And how can accusing him of being a Muslim, which essentially no one does, be "racist"? Muslims aren't a race of people. There are Arab Muslims, Persian Muslims, African Muslims, Chinese Muslims, etc. Do you honestly think that The Right would be any less vitriolic toward Hillary Clinton? Or John Kerry? Do you not remember the Swift Vets? Did The Right hate Ted Kennedy because he was Catholic?
09/18/09
09/18/09
09/18/09
Someone wake me up, when David gets back to earth.
09/18/09
That mode of thinking is even more bullshit today than it was 200 years ago, when Jackson, in his paranoid, populist, ignorance, thought the country shouldn't have any sort of central bank.
09/18/09
09/18/09
09/18/09
09/18/09
09/18/09
Belonsky hits the nail on the head with the line: "They're simply continuing — um —the age old Jefferson v. Hamilton debate."
That Brooks really thinks people are consciously playing out a Jefferson/Hamilton feud is utterly preposterous. I think we live with the ramifications of this national divide, but Brooks would have us believe that nothing that's happened since Jefferson/Hamilton has made a mark on the discourse. And was he ever going to mention that Jefferson owned slaves? I mean, I know it's common knowledge, but it seems odd for him to seemingly overlook that detail when he's trying to make the argument that this all has nothing to do with race.
09/18/09
09/18/09
09/18/09
09/18/09
That said, I reiterate, that many in the anti-federalist camp these days are there for less noble reasons than their forebears.
09/18/09
09/18/09
Racism didn't end in 1865, and there is reason to continue discussing it today. Here are a few statistics from the Kaiser Family Foundation of where young black males stand in this society:
Young black males ages 15-29 represent 14 percent of the population, but make up 40 percent of the prison population.
20 percent of young black males are unemployed, vs. 10 percent of white males. (This stat dates back a few years)
In 2002, at every education level black males made less then white males.
09/18/09
09/18/09
09/18/09
Damn, that's quite a leap.