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Copenhagen: Getting past the urgency trap

--------------------------------------- Copenhagen’s still three weeks away, but climate activists are already voicing their enormous disappointment about everything that’s not going to get done there. The heat is rising, and we’re all feeling the ...

From SARA ROBINSON, Orcinus,  21 Nov 2009

Postcard From Canada: Why I Missed Obama's Speech

Sunday, September 13, 2009   -- by Sara True confessions: I missed the health care speech. While the whole lefty blogosphere was watching and blogging and tweeting, I was sacked out in my attic bedroom high on a mountainside in Vancouver, ...

From SARA ROBINSON, Orcinus,  13 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  ChoicePoint Inc.,  National Security Agency

Fascist America III: Resistance For The Long Haul

Monday, August 31, 2009   -- by Sara August, die she must. The town hall freak show is winding down, the media circus is packing the cameras and satellite dishes and hairspray back into the vans, and Congress is soon heading back to the ...

From SARA ROBINSON, Orcinus,  31 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  Dick Armey,  Thomas Jefferson,  Rush Limbaugh

Fascist America II: The Last Turnoff

Thursday, August 13, 2009   -- by Sara Writing about fascism for an American audience is always a fraught business. Invariably, a third of the readers will dismiss the topic (and your faithful blogger's basic sanity) out of hand. Either ...

From SARA ROBINSON, Orcinus,  13 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Gary Bauer,  U.S. Republican Party

Fascist America: Are We There Yet?

Friday, August 07, 2009   -- by Sara All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist rhetoric ratcheted up, hate speech turned into intimidation and ...

From SARA ROBINSON, Orcinus,  7 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Jonah Goldberg,  Dick Armey,  Richard Nixon

Sara on Thom

I'm going to be on Thom Hartmann's national show tomorrow morning about 10:15 PDT, talking about Canadian health care. (Every time the debate gets revived, these two pieces get popular all over again, and people want to talk about them.) Listen in, and ...

From SARA ROBINSON, Orcinus,  26 Jul 2009

The Health Care Debate: Another Country Heard From

Sunday, July 26, 2009   -- by Sara One of the big differences between the 1993 Hillarycare debate and our current conversation is that we're hearing a lot more fact and lot less fiction about how other countries' systems actually work. Thank ...

From SARA ROBINSON, Orcinus,  26 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate

Those Wild Minutewomen

I'm finding it curious that, unique among nativist movements, the Minutemen seem to let women take leadership roles. The all-too-aptly-named Laine Lawless. Shawna Forde. And now Brandi Baron. With the rarest of exceptions, that's about three more ...

From SARA ROBINSON, Orcinus,  19 Jul 2009

Sunday News Brunch and Open Thread

Sunday, July 05, 2009   -- by Sara Sorry it's been so quiet here this week. The weather's warm (at least by the standards that obtain on the 50th parallel), which makes it hard to focus on work. Canada celebrates its Independence Day on July 1, ...

From SARA ROBINSON, Orcinus,  5 Jul 2009

Community Open Thread: Trolls

Saturday, June 20, 2009   -- by Sara "But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer ...

From SARA ROBINSON, Orcinus,  20 Jun 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

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