Name: Sean Aqui
Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Weblog: midtopia.blogspot.com
Articles: 72
First Published: Monday, October 24, 2005
Last Published: Saturday, July 28, 2007
Currently listing articles 72-51:
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The Science of Climate Change— A few key reasons why climate scientists think humans are mostly responsible for our warming Earth.
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Collision Course— Bush's latest assertion of executive privilege seems guaranteed to provoke not one, but two Supreme Court rulings on the extent of executive power.
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Bush's Rhetorical War in Iraq— The president employs a bagful of rhetorical tricks to shore up support for the war and avoid responsibility.
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Lewis Libby versus Marc Rich— Today's Democrats are acting almost exactly like Republicans did in 2001 — and for good reason.
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Bald Eagles and Me— My children will never really understand why I get a lump in my throat every time I see a bald eagle.
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Bush Looks to his Legacy— As his administration winds down, the president is making proposals intended to make him look good to history.
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"The Myth of Muslim Silence"— We expect more from moderate Muslims than we expect from ourselves.
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Memories of Greensburg, Kansas— I've only been to Kansas once, and I only visited one town when I was there - and now it's been destroyed.
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The High Price of Animal Shelters— Animal shelters kill two million dogs a year. It's time for a collective effort to rebalance the animal economy: increase demand and reduce supply.
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Sampson In The Hot Seat - A Convincing Performance, Mostly— Kyle Sampson defended the prosecutor firings as legal. His boss Alberto Gonzales gets the knife - and the Administration's reputation is further tattered.
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The Most Harmful Books, Conservative Style— Dangerous books? After Communism, Nazism and Maoism comes... sexuality, feminism, and nontheism.
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Bush's Hard but Brittle Line— Bush is threatening a Constitutional showdown over the fired prosecutors. If it comes to that, which will win: subpoena power or executive privilege?
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The Evolution of Religion— Humans seem to be wired to believe in God. Is this evidence of religion's evolutionary advantages, God's handiwork, or both?
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The Genetics of Altruism— When it comes to doing good, how much is because of social control and how much is coded into our DNA?
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Death to Earmarks!— Between the White House and Congress, the government has cobbled together what appears to be an effective earmark screen.
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Republicans Hype Another Pelosi Non-Scandal— Conservatives' conspiracy-theory habits from the Clinton days continue to resurface, driven in large part by the Washington Times.
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Tom Tancredo, Buffoon & Accidental Civil Rights Warrior— Taking misguided aim at one target, the Colorado blusterer manages to unintentionally hit a worthwhile one.
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Another Made-up Scandal To Befoul Political Waters— Right-wingers seem to be reverting to the bad old days of conspiracy theories and rumor mongering.
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John Kerry and What Might Have Been— To everyone's relief, Kerry bows out. What will he do with campaign cash — and how might things look if he had won in 2004?
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Manufacturing a Scandal— The discovery that Nancy Pelosi's husband owned $17 million shares of Del Monte stock set the blogosphere atwitter. Except it wasn't true.
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Ex-president Bush— What will Bush do starting January 2008?
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Bush's Iraq Plan - Same Old, Same Old— Bush began his Iraq speech with an admission of failure and two major mistakes, and it went downhill from there.
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