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Sunday, December 31
Book Review: The Right Gives Away Its Guidebook - Will We Listen?
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Radio Left Review
on Sun 31 Dec 2006 09:30 PM CST
SLOW NEWS DAY: NANCY GRACE, REPUBLICAN CONGRESSLOON TED POE, BRITNEY SPEARS AND PARIS HILTON... OH AND K-FED
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Radio Left Review
on Sun 31 Dec 2006 09:30 PM CST
DownWithTyranny! I'm usually successful at making sure the worst elements of plastic celebrity "culture" are kept as far from me as is humanly possible. Sometimes when I go visit my pal Rus he likes to switch from TV station to TV station and through Rus I've been exposed to some of the most grotesque aspects of our celebrity worshipping culture. Last night, however, I have only myself to blame. I've been out of the country for 5 weeks and I've forgotten where the TV stations are on the dial, not that I watch that many. But where's the History Channel, ... more »
LUGAR ON FOX THIS MORNING SEEMED TO FEEL CHEERY THAT THE DEMOCRATS WILL KEEP THE BUSH REGIME'S PSYCHO TENDENCIES IN CHECK
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Radio Left Review
on Sun 31 Dec 2006 09:30 PM CST
DownWithTyranny! With Bush Regime hacks like McCain and Lieberman running around like chickens without heads squawking for escalation and "one more shot" and "surges," saner heads-- on both sides of the aisle-- are eager to get Bush and Cheney and their cowboy crew to start abiding by constitutional restraints on their activities. This morning Indiana Republican Dick Lugar, respected outgoing chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned Bush that he either starts taking Congress'-- and the American people's-- concerns about his bizarre and disastrous policies serious or... well, it sounded like he was saying that even if the Republican ... more »
Hello 2007
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Radio Left Review
on Sun 31 Dec 2006 04:30 PM CST
Balkinization2006 was a difficult year for America. 2007 will be better. People are standing up and pulling together.
Let me close the year by recommending two books that should be of interest to both liberals and conservatives, to be read together. Sandy Levinson's Our Undemocratic Constitution (see sidebar to right) has received much praise. Borrowing a term used after the last election, I would describe the book as a "thumping" of our veneration of the Constitution and of our taken-for-granted belief in the democratic nature of our system. The second book is Bertrand de Jouvenel's On Power (which can ... more »
Best books of 2006
by
Radio Left Review
on Sun 31 Dec 2006 04:30 PM CST
BalkinizationThe Austin American-Statesman asked me, along with many other Austinites, to select the best book we read of those published in 2006. My response follows:
"Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil," Mark A. Graber This is a stunning meditation on the limits of the Constitution and on those who believe that we can escape the problems it poses by adopting one method of interpretation, be it "original intent" or the "fundamental values" of our polity. The title's "constitutional evil" is slavery and the infamous Dred Scott decision is the enduring symbol of the Founding Fathers' decision to ... more »
BUSH'S NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: MORE AIDS FOR THE THIRD WORLD AND ACCELERATED DESTRUCTION OF EARTH'S ENVIRONMENT
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Radio Left Review
on Sun 31 Dec 2006 04:30 PM CST
DownWithTyranny! Probably in the last few days all my suggestions that Saddam's execution, albeit maybe a little bit barbaric and primitive, was a great idea and should start a trend for tyrants, especially George Bush, gave you the idea that I think Bush is a particularly evil fellow. Well, I never met the man and whatever I think about that doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It isn't Bush's personality traits that condemn him but the actions of his Regime, actions based on the extremist far right philosophy that guides him in all things. To take it down to ... more » |
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