Posts Tagged Tea Party
Sticks and Stones
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on September 1st, 2011
I largely agree with Matt Tully’s “take” on Andre Carson’s controversial words in this morning’s Star. As Tully notes, Carson has been a substantive, hard-working legislator who has steadily gained stature, and the language he employed was unnecessary to and a distraction from the points he was trying to make. “Why,” Tully asks, did Carson [...]
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Of Debt and Taxes
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on July 31st, 2011
I haven’t written about the congressional impasse (polite word for food fight) over the debt ceiling, because really, what could I say that hasn’t been said many times by many people? But being here in Split, surrounded by evidence that human efforts at civilization have persisted over thousands of years, I’ve grudgingly recognized that our [...]
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Hate to be a Broken Record, but….
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on May 26th, 2011
This morning, the American Constitution Society blog referenced a recent report from the Associated Press: “The Associated Press has provided new details about a push by the nation’s largest Tea Party umbrella group to teach the Constitution in public schools using materials from an organization that promotes the Constitution as a divinely inspired document. As [...]
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Politics as Farce
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 17th, 2011
That anyone–anywhere–is taking “The Donald” seriously is a black mark on America. This megalomaniac with really, really bad hair, whose most salient characteristic is a breathtaking lack of self-awareness, is busy pandering to the very worst elements in our political system–much as he has pandered to our obsession with money and celebrity. As a side [...]
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