Archive for April, 2007

Josh Marshall strikes again - has the U.S. “lost” the war?

Friday, April 27th, 2007

One of my favorite blogs is Talking Points Memo, mainly because Josh Marshall writes at my level in several respects: interest in history (specifically Ango-American, from the 17th century on), willingness to see government actually working well, and hatred of corruption and political manipulation that gets in the way of the democracy project that really […]

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The Senate, in the most powerful empire the world has ever seen

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

From my interest in Quakers and the early Quaker movement, over the years I’ve become a student of the political, cultural, and social happenings of that period — roughly from the 1620s through the 1680s and ’90s. I believe that in some ways the ongoing Quaker movement has carried some of the same concerns and […]

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