Posts Tagged GOP
The Quotes Tell the Story
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Racial Equality on May 10th, 2013
Charles Blow has a must-read column in the New York Times, in which he foregoes characterizing for quoting. That is, rather than attributing attitudes to political figures like Romney, Gingrich, Ryan, et al, he simply quotes them. It’s devastating.
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Will He or Won’t He?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on May 9th, 2013
I believe today is the last day Governor Pence can veto the “Imperial Mayor” bill. (If he fails to either sign or veto it, it becomes law without his signature.) Leaving aside the numerous problems with the bill itself (the provisions eliminating the At-Large Councilors have gotten most of the attention, but they are the [...]
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The Blame Game
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on May 5th, 2013
When I first began practicing law, there were still very few women in the profession. One of the very first to have broken the gender barrier was a local divorce lawyer who had become legendary (not in a good way) in the legal community. Whether she’d become embittered by barriers she’d faced, or was just [...]
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Remember the One About the Frog…?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 30th, 2013
There is an old story–a fable, actually–about the most effective way to kill a frog. You just put that little creature in a pot of water and slowly but steadily increase the temperature of the water. Eventually, the frog is boiled to death, but because of the slow, incremental elevation of the heat, it doesn’t [...]
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Red and Blue, Ends and Means
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging, Uncategorized on April 10th, 2013
I have posted previously about ends and means, about the fact that the American constitution is a prescription for process. The central premise of our system is a respect for individuals’ right to have different life goals, different ends–what the Greeks called telos. When citizens are expected to differ on fundamental questions of purpose and [...]
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