President Obama’s position on gay marriage has evolved to the point that he’s now all for it. That’s what he told ABC News. One reason he cited was his Christian faith. “You know, we [his wife Michele and he] are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only… Read more
Europe rejects austerity–how about the USA?
May 10, 2012 By Gene Veith
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The countries of the European Union are voting out the leaders who had been pushing austerity measures to reduce debt, cut back the welfare states, and get their economies on a more solid footing. French President Sarkozy was ousted in favor of socialist Francois Hollande. Greece, the nation in the worst shape of all, has voted out the coalition of center-left and center-right parties that accepted the tough conditions of Germany’s bailout. In fact, German Prime Minister Angela Merkel is… Read more
A week without this blog
May 9, 2012 By Gene Veith
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Hello. Test. Test. Is this thing on? I think so, now. After a week! So the hosting company’s server went down, but then they had trouble transferring the files to a new one, and then they gave me an alphabet soup of technical gibberish in an effort to help me understand what was happening. . . . Let’s see if this time the blog stays up for more than minutes at a time. Try to get on several times during… Read more
The People’s Rights Amendment
May 9, 2012 By Gene Veith
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House Democrats have introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would specify that the rights guaranteed by that document apply only to individuals and not to “corporate” entities. The intention is to undo the Supreme Court’s ruling that allows organizations to spend unlimited money on political campaigns since they have free speech. But a “corporation” is not just a business organization. The Amendment–introduced by Jim McGovern (D-Mass) and co-sponsored by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, 26 other Democrats, and one Republican–would have… Read more
Energy boom & revival of manufacturing in our future?
May 9, 2012 By Gene Veith
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David Ignatius brings up what could be heralds of good economic prospects ahead. (Or is it just a pipe dream?) First, the case that America is entering a new era of energy security: My expert here is Robin West, a friend who is chairman of PFC Energy, a Washington-based advisory group. He argues in a series of recent reports to clients that, because of the rapid expansion of oil and gas production from shale, America is likely to become by… Read more
Add these words to your vocabulary
May 4, 2012 By Gene Veith
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The new volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English is out, and here are some good words that need to be adopted by the rest of the country (as chosen by Kevin Lamarque at Reuters): 1. whoopensocker (n.), Wisconsin You know when something’s wonderfully unique, but the words “wonderful” and “unique” don’t quite cut it? That’s why the Wisconsinites invented whoopensocker, which can refer to anything extraordinary of its kind—from a sweet dance move to a knee-melting kiss. 2…. Read more
Reform conservatives vs. Rejectionist conservatives
May 4, 2012 By Gene Veith
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Michael Gerson says that there are currently two kinds of conservatives: On one side there are Rejectionist Conservatives, who come in a variety of forms. There are libertarians who view federal taxation, except to fund a few night-watchman roles, as theft. There are tea party activists who believe that any federal power must be specifically enumerated in the Constitution — and then interpret the Constitution as if it were the Articles of Confederation. And then there is Ron Paul, who… Read more
A college football playoff is in the works
May 4, 2012 By Gene Veith
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The BCS conferences have reportedly agreed to devise a four-team playoff for the college football championship: College football is on the verge of finally having a playoff, its own version of the final four. For the first time, all the power brokers who run the highest level of the sport are comfortable with the idea of deciding a championship the way it’s done from pee-wees to pros. And the way fans have been hoping they would for years. “Yes, we’ve… Read more
These technical difficulties
May 4, 2012 By Gene Veith
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No sooner had I trumpeted the return of this blog than the whole thing went down again. We were online for about an hour. Now we seem to be back. I’ll put up some posts and we can pretend this blog week never happened. (If the problems continue, at least you’ll know of the server woes.) This is the problem with post-humanist cyborg mystics who have the dream of downloading everyone’s consciousness into the internet so that we can dispense… Read more
We’re back online!
May 3, 2012 By Gene Veith
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Finally! Long time no see. This blog went down on May 1 and just came up again the night of May 3. According to our hosting people, the server went down and then they had trouble moving everything over to a new one. I don’t understand why it took so long to zap some electronic files from one place to another.In that time I could have loaded all of my possessions into a moving van, driven halfway across the country,… Read more
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