Guest Post by Ed Stephan. Hillary Clinton recently stuck her neck out to propose looking for some “common ground” on the issue of abortion, actually going a step beyond her husband’s stated goal of making abortion “safe, legal and rare”. The GOP, which these days could serve as a prime example for Eric Hoffer’s brilliant […]
Guest post by Ed Stephan. Nearly all news media now tend to “tabloidize” events — not just pointing with alarm to unusual events, but also seeing everything only from the point of view of how events affect an individual. A story about unemployment may begin with “Mary looks fretfully at what may be her last […]
Guest Post by Ed Stephan. File this under both “analysis” and “tirade”, mostly the latter. Shortly after President Clinton reneged on his campaign pledge to admit gays to military service, I wrote this letter-to-the-editor for our local paper, the Bellingham [WA] Herald (Gannett): 30 May 1993 To the Editor: Fundamentalists who favor banning gays from […]
Guest post by Ed Stephan. In testimony May 26 before the Immigration Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary (chair John Cornyn, R-TX), Princeton University professor Douglas Massey, at the invitation of ranking Democrat Ted Kennedy, cited two decades of research which point to a fundamental contradiction in U.S.-Mexico relations: On the one hand, […]
Guest post by Ed Stephan. The White House seems to be happy with what’s going on in Iraq during recent weeks. Bush, augmenting his remarks with a Pat-Robertson’s semi-giggle, tells us he’s “pleased”. Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, Bush said he was pleased with progress in Iraq more than two years after he […]
I’m going to be away from my computer today, so I won’t be able to post. However, for your reading pleasure, I’ve arranged for Ed Stephan, a Carpetbagger regular, to sit in for me. Ed, in addition to being a regular contributor to my comments section, is a recently retired professor at Western Washington University […]
Guest Post by Ed Stephan. Hillary Clinton recently stuck her neck out to propose looking for some “common ground” on the issue of abortion, actually going a step beyond her husband’s stated goal of making abortion “safe, legal and rare”. The GOP, which these days could serve as a prime example for Eric Hoffer’s brilliant […]
There was a point, in the late 1990s, when conservatives would frequently whine about “scandal fatigue.” Every time they picked up the paper, they’d say, there’d be another controversy surrounding Clinton’s White House. They insisted it was time to elect a Republican to help give the country a break after years of constant outrages. Most […]
There’s a fair bit of disarray among Republicans in Washington right now. They’re not all on the same page on a variety of legislative goals, including Social Security privatization, stem-cell research, an energy bill, the Patriot Act, and immigration, among others. It seems the GOP caucus needs something to get back on track, a priority […]
This story, brought to my attention by reader TJ and C&L, is just painful. The Tulsa Zoo will add a display featuring the biblical account of creation following complaints to a city board about other displays with religious significance, including a Hindu elephant statue. The Tulsa Park and Recreation Board voted 3-1 Tuesday in favor […]