http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:14:13 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:14:13 Pipes is describing a fantasy world inhabited by rightists of a certain stripe who are best described as creme-puffs masquerading as hard-rolls. In that world only they are alert to huge malevolencies only they are hard enough to oppose properly, and their opponents are squishy things in sandals who... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/209 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:33:06 The first comes from Virginia, and is that running as a Republican is fatal for a Democrat. Mr. Deeds strove to distance himself from President Obama, concentrated on older white voters, and announced he would if elected opt-out of any public option. The result was a depressed turn out of Democrats,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/208 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:34:19 And deserve some commendation for being the first among the 'anti' faction to do so. While it steers us into murky waters all around, it warrants consideration.

It is quite likely, given the circumstances of some of the neighborhoods which A.C.O.R.N. services, that some genuine clients do derive ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/207 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:20:07 In speaking of a 'corporate state', Mussolini was employing an older definition of corporate, the root meaning of grouped in a single body, a whole, meaning by it the fascist state was a unitary thing, in which no separate elements existed: he was saying fascist Italy was a single body, without clas... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/206 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:17:12 Our total of sixty votes today includes a number of 'moderates' and 'centerists' from red or reddish states. Democratic Senators from these places are going to have to stand up and put their seats at risk, and if they do not, will deserve every calumny of cowardice and corruption and petty self-ser... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/205 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:53:17 It is not a question of 'throwing anyone under the bus', it is a question of being willing to take a hit for the team, defined as the people of the country and the Party. Democratic Senators from 'red states' are going to have to stand up and put their seats at risk, and if they do not, will deserve... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/204 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:48:34 What is necessary is to restore usury laws, capping interest rates, and to prohibit increases of interest rates on debt already incurred at one rate.

In the largest view, it is necessary to raise wage levels. Credit at usurious rates has served as a means of propping up consumption at levels that... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/203 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:21:38 If the public option is 'of a decent quality and more affordable', why should the company not switch to it, and what could be wrong with that? Insurance company opposition to this course is based on their cold knowledge the product they offer is necessarily inferior to a public plan, since their bus... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/202 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:38:00 The problem is the refusal of the far right in this country to abide by the outcome of elections, and its resolve to do all in its power to render the country ungovernable when it does not itself control the government.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/201 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:05:38 Amazing how you present disagreement with your views, and pointing out their sparse foundation, as 'disrupting and shutting down discussion'. You will not find me complaining that persons expressing views contrary to mine are engaged in silencing me, or disrupting a discussion. Statements like that ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/200 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:27:11 That the events under discussion were evil in themselves, and certainly deplorable considered in isolation, is beyond argument.

Unfortunately, that is not always a sufficient consideration in prosecuting war. The over-riding ethical imperative in war is to attempt to inflict the minimum degree of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/199 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:13:32 And it clearly illustrates the a-historical quality of your position.

While it is not my intention to engage the German element at any length, it is worth pointing out one very large fact you are over-looking. The Nazi war aim was exterminationist; the purpose of victory was to commence the slaug... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/198 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:11:05 First, there is large group of political reactionaries attempting to move people to act against their own best economic and social interests by persuading them their problems are owing to the moral imperfections, mostly sexual behavior, of other people, and not to the systematic extraction of money ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/197 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:24:08 Where I live, more people vote for a county commissioner in his district race than have ever voted for this bought out shit-heel. He has no legitimate claim to be a national leader; there is no reason he should have the slightest impact on any part of the country where the population density exceeds... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/196 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:44:01 To call the present financial markets 'the greatest price discovery and wealth creation mechanism ever devised' is a joke in extremely poor taste. What they in fact are is a system of side bets, the sort engaged in by spectators around a craps table on whether or not the shooter will make his point.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/195 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:26:14 The attacks achieved their objective. Therefore there is no need to repeat the exercise. People engaged in war, which the leadership of Al Queda certainly conceives itself to be, do not engage in violence simply for its own sake. Violence in war is employed to achieve a desired effect on the enemy's... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/194 Sat, 16 May 2009 13:56:11 The fact is that people usually talk past one another, and the most common motive for posts is to see to it the view one holds is adequately represented, so that a person reading a thread in its entirity, or the forum as a whole, will not conclude an opposing view predominates. There are several maj... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/193 Sat, 16 May 2009 13:04:36 Nor is there any real 'implication' of responsibility or dereliction attaching to Speaker Pelosi.

But this sort of noise from the left has consequences. It is no accident the defenders of the Bush administration have chosen this present line. They have been cued to it by noises on the left, and f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/192 Fri, 15 May 2009 17:42:33 Your position is that the inaction of Democrats in Congress was a worse crime than the action of the Bush administration in torturing prisoners in custody. It does not save you to claim you did not mean crime in any legal sense, which is the only real meaning the term has, because in trying to shift... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/191 Sun, 10 May 2009 08:19:04 The public does not blame the Democratic Party or its leadership for the actions of the Bush administration. Indeed, it looks to the Democratic Party to repair the damage done by the Bush administration.

Thus in attacking actions of the Bush administration, attempts to tie the Democratic Party le... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/190 Fri, 08 May 2009 23:15:17 The power of private, for profit bureaucracies is greater than that of government, in the effects it can have on people's lives. Government agencies can be reached, and to some degree regularly influenced, by appeal to elected officials, who must respond to the public en masse sooner or later. There... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/189 Wed, 06 May 2009 18:24:20 Someone was kind enough to point out to me that a late post of mine last night was the seventy-thousandth I have made here, and as that is a decent round number indeed, I thought to mark the occasion with a display of my private madness cum meditation. This the last scratch-built model I have comple... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/188 Fri, 01 May 2009 12:27:20 From the first observable instances of societies arising with sufficient scope of numbers and complexity to display governing authority exercised at a distance, a clear pattern of exploitation of the governed by the governors can be discerned. This has taken the form of extracting from a lowest labo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/187 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:53:30 For it seems to me your view is in most ways sound, but in some others mistaken.

Impeachment is like Kipling's Marine "neither one o' the Line nor one o' the regular crew': it is a mixture of political and legal processes. It was abolished in England not long after the American Revolution because... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/186 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:10:15 It would constitute 'calling out' to link to blatant examples just from today, but examination of threads touching on this matter will readily produce sight of calls for arrest of leading Democrats, for their banishment from office, and claims they are just as responsible as the Bush administration ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The Magistrate/185 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:06:50