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President Obama’s endorsement of George Bush’s contempt for the rule of law, his Nixonian claims for executive authority on civil liberties and Presidential power, and violation of campaign promises, gives us a wonderful test of a claim I recently made that Republican Right Wingers had abandoned citizenship for tribalism, and had ceased being decent citizens…

It’s no secret that I think Barack Obama is immensely better than any Republican office holder as President of the United States.  Any Republican. It is also no secret that I have been pretty critical of some awful things he has done.  But at the same time I’ve wondered whether or not I’ve been too…

Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, and others like the are seeking to destroy the United States by replacing citizenship with tribalism.  I do not think most of them intend this consequence, but they are so intoxicated by their self-righteousness that they are blind to the deeper consequences of what they are accomplishing.  Richard Poplawski’s…

While I suspect Iowa’s Supreme Court ruling went well beyond the current moral capacities of many of that state’s citizens, their unanimous ruling establishing the right of gay marriage is a wonderful one.  And as usual, the culture warriors are up in arms, pontificating about ‘tradition,’ though as usual knowing little of it.  That celibate…
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