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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Defense Never Rests
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/28/sports/playmagazine/20080229_GUNDY_GRAPHIC.html
Offense is back in the N.B.A. Look no further than the triple-digit scores now appearing nightly. And defense? After slowing the game in the ’90s, it has lost a step. And yet defense is still critical to a title: 34 of the N.B.A.’s 61 champions led the league in scoring differential, a defining defensive measurement.
Love this link, for the bball junkies out there...
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MSNBC: Abraham Lincoln Letters Proposed Avoiding Civil War
"Barely a year into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suggested buying slaves for $400 apiece under a "gradual emancipation" plan that would bring peace at less cost than several months of hostilities."
Nothing really new here, this is info that's been known to historians for some time. Up until midway through the war, Lincoln always supported compensated emancipation or compensation coupled with colonization of freed slaves. The obvious moral difficulties involved in these schemes always doomed them, despite many attempts by the states and fed gov't through the years. The major problem was the moral quandary of forcibly deporting free black citizens to another country. This always made legislators uneasy, and the usual solution was to offer free blacks a choice to stay or go. The vast majority of blacks chose to stay, feeling that they were born into the US and helped to build it they saw no reason of leaving the most bountiful land in the world. Another problem was the cost involved, which the article mentioned. By the time of the war, most people dismissed compensated emancipation as prohibitively expensive for either the state or federal government. Lincoln's logic was to compare the cost of emancipation with the cost of running the vast war machinery of the North. In the end, the blood and treasure saved would be enough to make compensation more than worth it. However, as Lincoln himself probably knew, this logic would never work in the North once the southern states had decided to secede from the Union. Having left the Union and precipitated a tremendously bloody conflict, under no circumstances could the northern states be persuaded to pay the southern states and in effect reward treasonous and revolutionary behavior.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23434604/
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Bill Clinton in October 2004 on hope versus fear
Hillary Clinton's new "red phone" campaign ad tries to profit on voters' fears. Here's what does Bill Clinton had to say about that kind of tactics...
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Why I Love Her
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/11/clinton-dismisses-weekend-losses/
God, the contradictions:
"These are caucus states by and large, or in the case of Louisiana, you know, a very strong and very proud African-American electorate, which I totally respect and understand."
So Obama won because he's black (I'll ignore the racial subtext there, like Louisiana voters aren't actually choosing the best candidate but slavishly following the black candidate). Then further down:
"It is highly unlikely we will win Alaska or North Dakota or Idaho or Nebraska," she said, naming several of Obama's red state wins.
I wonder what his excuse was there - did he outwhite or outman her?. She's running out of reasons why she keeps losing.
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
How Low Can You Go?
Flat broke? Need cash? Campaign staffers working for free, living in cardboard boxes?
Geez, you think a sense of shame would kick in at some point. It's really hard to see why they're despised by so many people. What a class act.
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