The 2004 presidential election is has come and gone. The nation is deeply and starkly divided on the road ahead on any number of issues. We will continue our running compilation of our election-related posts - watch it unfold here and come back often for updates.
Government of Business, by Business, for Business - Part II
The land sharks are in a feeding frenzy, leaving a bloody trail - where's Teddy when we need him?
Posted in Blogcritics on November 15, 2004 03:31 PM
Red and Blue Reality
Fear not the great cultural/political clampdown, for it isn't coming.
Posted in Blogcritics on November 15, 2004 03:25 PM
Much Ado About Silence
Was the Kerry campaign helped or hurt when major papers ignored the Swift Boat controversy in early August?
Posted in Blogcritics on November 15, 2004 10:44 AM
Shuffling The Deck
Secretary of State Colin Powell will be leaving the Bush cabinet, as widely anticipated. The recent departure of the Attorney-General and the Commerce Secretary from the Bush cabinet is the beginning of a reshuffle of the entire cabinet, with upto half the team slated to go or change posts.
Posted in Blogcritics on November 15, 2004 10:39 AM
Stacking the Court: We’re all the Poorer
Now is the winner of our discontent, made gloomier still by the inevitable abduction of our Court… The Founding Fathers, the majority of them, feared Party politics and for good reason. One of the worst outcomes of partisan politics is...
Posted in Blogcritics on November 14, 2004 10:09 PM
Dowd disses conservative Christians
Nothing scares secular lefties more than an election where some 60 million Americans cast a vote for -- gasp! -- a President who finds great comfort in his faith. Beltway blasphemy! Republicans call it winning an election. Maureen Dowd calls...
Posted in Blogcritics on November 14, 2004 03:25 PM
Government of Business, By Business, For Business - Part I
That's not quite what the Founding Fathers had in mind, but that's the way it is. During his first administration, President Bush appointed over a hundred industry lobbyists and lawyers to oversee the industries they lobbied and lawyered for. Like...
Posted in Blogcritics on November 14, 2004 02:10 PM
The Dignity of Difference - by Jonathan Sacks
This is an important book about big issues. It is subtitled "How to avoid the Clash of Civilizations" which implies, correctly, that the author is weighing in with Fukuyama and Huntington on the End of History, the Clash of Civilizations...
Posted in Blogcritics on November 14, 2004 09:56 AM
Article comments
1 - Jason Koulouras
Eric, this compilation is a great resource site - thanks!
2 - Eric Olsen
thanks Jason! It's a good way to follow along in chronological order, and with it all in one place you can spot trends and relationships between stories and themes you might not have otherwise noticed
3 - Mike Kole
Eric- I'll second the note of thanks, with a special appreciation for a pic of Badnarik that is standard fare rather than one of him blowing his nose or the like. The Nader image is his own, so nobody could get too riled about it, but it looks like a Gary Numan album cover to me.
4 - Eric Olsen
we strive to be ecumenical!
5 - geekgirl2
Great set of info re the US election. The Australian elections are on soon too - I still think it's more a plague on both their houses type of thing in both countries!
6 - Eric Olsen
thanks gg2, I am certain Australians are doing a much better job of following our elections than we are of yours
7 - RJ
Eric:
I just added a link to this page onto my site, like you requested. EVERYONE SHOULD DO THIS!
8 - Eric Olsen
Thanks, and that would be great. Certainly everyone who has written posts linked from this master post would benefit greatly from as much traffic going to it as possible.
9 - Ernie Fitzpatrick
Who are we to believe on the conditions in Iraq? A man who is risking his life every minute of the day who lives there (Allawi) and is the Prime Minister, or a man running for president that would benefit by worsening conditions(JFK)?
10 - Eric Olsen
everyone has an angle, including Allawi, but that is not an unresonable question
11 - Helmut
Have any of you guys seen the new Bushisms DVD? I just bought it from www.bushism.net. It looks pretty funny. Al Franken and Brian Unger are it. Any comments?
12 - Eric Olsen
thanks Helmut, I'll add it to the Amazon list above
13 - RJ
I just linked to this page again in another post to my site. EVERYONE SHOULD DO THIS!
14 - Eric Olsen
thanks RJ, I agree
15 - Eric Olsen
and by everyone, we mean everyone who owns a computer
16 - andy marsh
it is most definately a good source, thanks for the compilation Eric!
17 - Claire
This is, in fact, a wonderful source for issues, personalities and the important things we need to consider at this time. It has been wonderfully put together and should serve as a model for the future.
Claire
18 - Eric Olsen
thanks Claire, much appreciated!
19 - Alicia Whitaker
You suck