Tag Archives: 2014

Phil Clark: Football Championships Still Won by Complete Team

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Roger Goodell and company may want to try to outlaw defense in the National Football League and try to make the NFL look like flag football, where perhaps even tackling may soon become illegal, because they believe … Continue reading →

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The New Yorker: Jeffrey Frank: Rand Paul & The Eisenhower Dream

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Back in the day, before, lets say, the Religious Right era, the Republican Party was essentially a classically conservative, if not conservative, libertarian party that used phrases like “Get big government out of my wallet, bedrooms, classrooms, … Continue reading →

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Associated Press: U.S. Senate Blocks President Obama’s Pick For Civil Rights Post

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Wow, President Obama losing a vote on one of his executive nominations in a Democratic Senate with a clear 55-45 majority, where the minority can no longer block executive nominations by themselves. This loss has to do … Continue reading →

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Daniel Hannan: ‘Hitler Was a Progressive’

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  When I first saw the title of this blog on Lew Rockwell.com, my first thought, to be perfectly frank, was “bullshit.” I mean, what is progressive about murdering millions of people simply because of their ethnicity, which … Continue reading →

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CNN: The Newsroom- AJ Hammer On the Death of Great Comic Writer/Actor Harold Ramis

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:CNN– talking about the life and career of Harold Ramis. You can also see this post at FRS FreeState, on WordPress. “R.I.P. Harold Ramis, Dead At 69” From Federal Jack Tube Harold Ramis will be missed for his comic writing and acting … Continue reading →

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Reason Magazine: Sharif Matar Interviews Director Christopher Kay: What’s Wrong with American Politics? Of by For the American People

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  There’s an old saying about the American political system that goes something like this:  It is the worst political system in the world except for all the rest. Not exactly a high bar to shoot for, kind … Continue reading →

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The American Conservative: Leon Hadar: The Right’s Putin Problem’

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The American Conservative– Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. “The counterintuitive argument that Putin should be considered a hero of American conservatives probably originated with the founder of this magazine who asked last year whether in “the culture war for mankind’s … Continue reading →

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Slate Magazine: Helen Vera: Against Solitary Confinement: State are Finding it’s Impractical as well as Immoral

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  The current use of the process of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons is deplorable.  There are no guidelines relating the length of confinement to severity of offense.  The process is used at the discretion of onsite officials. … Continue reading →

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The Economist: Inequality in America: How to be a True Progressive

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  I’ve mentioned before that I do not qualify as a Progressive, at least from today’s popular definition of it, someone who believes in using government to make society better and fairer with new government social programs that … Continue reading →

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Mr. Dufflepud: Wynton Marsalis Septet, Happy Birthday

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Happy Birthday Big Daddy, who is now, well I won’t give that out in public, but still my Big Daddy no matter how long he lives and I expect a lot more birthdays to come, or I … Continue reading →

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