I recently saw your blog at TPMCafe. Having read some of your excellent posts, and the description of yourself, I'm very curious as to what a "Progressive Conservative" embodies? Given your impressively thoughtful posts, I am really interested to hear...
Bipartisan
A funny thing happened on the way to our Change - everything stayed the same except our new president. The same tired rhetoric from both sides of the aisle from the same tired partisan warriors in the same shrill and...
mushroom clouds and smoking guns
Our politics has become a game of feigned outrage over purposeful misunderstandings of straightforward arguments made by someone completely different from yourself but no less convinced of their point of view. How's that for a high-calorie sentence?...
“Semantics? I’m always up for some antics.”
President-elect Barack Obama ran on a detailed set of policy solutions for many of our most pressing challenges. Neoconservative pundits and an anemic news media aside, he won the support of many political moderates for the depth and breadth of...
restoring american civility
Flying back from my uncle's wedding in Oregon, I was sitting next to a towering 70-year-old former school teacher and superintendent whom I'll call Mr. Montana. He mostly ignored me while I read my book during the first half of...