Lee on Nov 14 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs
When you think of the numerous problems routinely facing residents of Mexico City, things like an astronomical violent crime rate, standstill traffic, urban poverty, collapsing infrastructure, chronic water shortages, claustrophobia-inducing overcrowding and toxic pollution might come to mind. Even aircraft falling out the sky might reasonably have joined your list of hazards confronting the city’s [...]
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Credit given where due, this is a clever leftist button.
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Lee on Sep 02 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Sever Plocker: “Palin’s candidacy has irritated many among the American leftist camp, and they have been responding like a child who has seen an expensive toy being taken away from him.”
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Lee on Aug 31 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Ken Davenport has a brutal piece in TWS this morning on the frankly rather embarrassing opposition of the National Organization of Women to Sarah Palin’s candidacy. It still astonishes me to no end that an organization which would be splendidly placed to speak as the pluralistic voice of the majority demographic group in the country [...]
Lee on Feb 06 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
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Mick at Uncorrelated picks up a Mark J. Perry story noting that ExxonMobil’s annual average tax bill, nearly equals total taxes paid by the bottom 50% of individual taxpayers in 2004. In the leftist mind this is perhaps deserving punishment for the robber baron. For me, it’s an enormous amount of private capital, that [...]
Lance on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Blogs, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page
Start off with a look at his wonderful post and photo’s on the destruction of Serbia’s oldest theater. Then poke around, read who he is. Enjoy. Yet another part of the antitotalitarian left searching for what that means anymore:
A blog devoted to political commentary and analysis with a particular - but far from exclusive - [...]
Lee on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
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Matt Stoller at OpenLeft has a pretty interesting observation about the swing of the self-described “very liberal” constituency from Obama to Hillary over the course of the primaries:
In Iowa, Obama beat Clinton by 16 points among those who consider themselves as ‘very liberal’. In New Hampshire, they were even. And now [...]
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