Romeny Lyme Disease Mailer Smart Idea Poor Execution

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Saturday September 29, 2012 · 2:57 PM PDT

2012/09/29 · 14:57

Romney's mailer is possibly the smartest thing he has done in the whole campaign. I haven't written anything for this site in a long time. Since before the switch to the new style for the site. Mostly it was a function of not being such a youth and having my time eaten up by the adult obligations. However the Romney Lyme Disease mailer intrigued me enough to write a short piece on it. It is actually representative of out of the box and clever campaigning which is something Romney has failed at so miserably since he started running for president 8 years ago.

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Friday January 08, 2010 · 10:59 PM PST

2010/01/08 · 22:59

I know its a shocking concept but our country has "been at war with terror" since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Been at war is in quotes if only because the type of war the US has engaged in is not at all the traditional idea of war. The home front has remained mostly in a state of normality. Certainly there have been some changes like the security theater employed at airports but for the most part Americans go through their every day lives without feeling the war or seeing it on tv. Yet our country is straining to accommodate both of these attitudes. How do we reconcile American values with perennial war?

Liberal Youth

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Monday December 14, 2009 · 2:45 PM PST

2009/12/14 · 14:45

Matt Taibbi's polemic article about the selection of economic advisors and the general economic policy that has come about has spawned a large debate in the blogosphere. The core of the attacks against Taibi are not the factual charges which seem to be largely a distraction. Instead the substantive critique is that the executive branch advisors arent the problem and that removing them and replacing them with the most progressive ones you could find wouldnt change a thing. This critique is based on the legislature central view of policy. Essentially these critics of Taibi are saying that until lieberman, nelson, bayh are gone there simply cant be better, more progressive policy.

Liberal Youth

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Thursday December 03, 2009 · 5:55 PM PST

2009/12/03 · 17:55

Following a link from Ezra Klein on the problems of street food and regulation led to an interesting article from the post. It turns out that while street food is taking off in popularity as gourme trucks bring quality to streets of metropolitan areas, the law and regulatory state has failed to keep up. Its an interesting problem. How do you deal with mobile food?

Liberal Youth

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Monday November 30, 2009 · 11:41 PM PST

2009/11/30 · 23:41

With our President prepared to send 40,000 more soldiers into Afghanistan a serious discussion has arisen about the future of our commitment there. I have written before about the time and material required for nation building. Back then i was much more willing to devote what was needed to the long struggle of fixing Afghanistan. The nature of the mission has changed and so has my support for sending more resources, more men and women, to that country. Unfortunately the United States has a real problem with our orientation towards the military.

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Wednesday November 25, 2009 · 1:27 AM PST

2009/11/25 · 01:27

As a general rule members of Congress wish to be reelected. That is not too shocking of a proposition because being a member of Congress is a prestigious job with good benefits. As a result of this interest congress people, senators especially, like to do things that will keep them in office. One of the things that helps keep someone in Congress is taking credit while avoiding responsibility. By taking this approach Congress has managed to alter the balance of power vis-a-vis the Presidency. A case in point is the filibuster.

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Sunday November 15, 2009 · 10:29 PM PST

2009/11/15 · 22:29

I simply cannot understand the conservative approach to running the country. It seems on all of the major issues of the day that conservatives like to play pretend. They pretend that things are already super awesome and that we are number one in everything so we dont need to do anything except set taxes and regulation to zero and let the cash roll in. Anything else is an affront to our freedom. Also we're number one in freedom, except during the Obama presidency when were are simultaneously #1 and totally without freedom in a naziesque dictatorship. Using historical data ala Jonah Goldberg i will show that Conservatives are actually Communists.

Liberal Youth

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Monday November 09, 2009 · 1:45 PM PST

2009/11/09 · 13:45

Some times political incumbents lose. Admittedly it doesnt happen often. When it does happen though you generally get a good picture ahead of time. The best evidence is Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas. She is, in all likelihood,going to lose. What then is she supposed to do on big votes like health care insurance reform? Her actions represent a general failing on behalf of losing politicians to do the right thing.

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Thursday November 05, 2009 · 1:25 AM PST

2009/11/05 · 01:25

You probably are not aware of the intellectual property treaty being negotiated in Seoul South Korea. Its called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The reason that you may not have heard of it is that its supposed to be secret. Why? National Security concerns of course. Thats right, a treaty that affects millions is being negotiated in secret apparently without the input of views that might be hostile to the draconian enforcement of copyright law.

Liberal Youth

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Wednesday November 04, 2009 · 1:10 AM PST

2009/11/04 · 01:10

Is he delivering or not? That seems to be a dividing line right now among democrats and liberals. Is President Obama delivering on the change promised during the campaign? The answer to that depends in part on what you thought he meant by change. Other contributing factors to your view probably include the time frame he has had to operate in, the conditions of the media, the general lameness of the senate, and your own level of idealism versus pragmatism. For instance, i am not going to be satisfied with the end result of HCR, im not going to get the same choice members of congress get. democrats should stop saying that i will. Of course i really didnt have expectations that i would so i dont take that too hard. Civil Liberties on the other hand, i was really expecting better.

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Tuesday November 03, 2009 · 11:55 AM PST

2009/11/03 · 11:55

President Obama has already ruled out any cuts in defense spending while we occupy Iraq and Afghanistan. This has not stopped the musings in the liberal blogosphere by the likes of Matt Yglesias, and others who have noted that the annual defense budget is $680 billion and the cost of health care is on pace to be less than $90 billion. the annual defense expenditure would be just under 7 times the cost of health care. Aside from wondering why we dont talk about the cost of health care in annual expenditures in stead of over 10 years, it really makes you wonder what we are getting from all of this.

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Monday November 02, 2009 · 5:43 PM PST

2009/11/02 · 17:43

The NYT is reporting on the development of the media shield law designed to protect reporters from disclosing their sources. The law is required in order to give cover to sources who provide information vital to the public knowledge. The type of law that the NYT is reporting on seems like it might be sufficient protection but much hangs on any potential litigation in the court system.

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