tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51073642024-03-26T09:17:54.583+00:00Avedon's other weblog<em>An emergency alternative for <a href="http://sideshow.me.uk">The Sideshow</a></em>Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger415125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-26964194070758385212020-02-27T00:12:00.000+00:002020-02-27T00:13:59.837+00:00Joe Biden, Ukraine, nazis, John Conyers and the fall election
Russ Bellant, an award winning journalist and author of Old Nazis in the Republican Party, says that the story of the Bidens and Ukrain is a lot more complicated than we know, and there are no good guys.
Joe Biden, Ukraine, nazis, John Conyers and the fall election
I have wrestled with the question of whether to write this, and if I chose to, when it should be written. I finally decided to Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-43514499003242578912016-05-23T14:18:00.000+00:002016-05-23T14:23:30.182+00:00Fight to lose, or fight to win[This was a comment on a FaceBook, and since we still haven't managed to browbeat Geoff into starting his own blog, I decided to post it so it could be linked to. The title is mine. - AC]
by Geoff Beckman
The people who want more should be as loud and nasty as they possibly can. That's essential if you want a strong bill passed.
"Good cop, bad cop" is the single best strategy for getting a Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-81878836030548676002012-09-19T13:58:00.000+00:002012-09-19T14:06:34.213+00:00Z-Files: SeparationStuart Zechman's Z-Files: Separation
(Listen to Separation.)
I'm Stuart Zechman, and, as a movement liberal, I'm totally for religious liberty. Yep, as a firm supporter of the Bill of Rights, I think that the first sentence of the First Amendment, which reads:"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" represents an inherently American value: the government has no Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-57214231647602017472012-09-08T02:06:00.000+00:002012-09-27T02:29:03.193+00:00Third Way
Z-Files Episode 14, 04/17/2012
"Third Way"
I'm Stuart Zechman, and I'd like to do a little experiment with you
folks listening, if you wouldn't mind helping me out.
So I'm going read you a representative quote from a politician, and
I want you to try to guess whether that politician is liberal or
stuart_zechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-36137107971730198672012-09-04T13:22:00.001+00:002012-09-04T13:22:11.224+00:00Z-Files Episode 9, 03/13/2012
"Equivalence"
I'm Stuart Zechman, and I've been hearing the phrase "false
equivalence" being used lately in ways I've never heard before.
You remember what "false equivalence" is, right?
It's when someone points out what appears to be a similarity between
two things that are, in reality, not equivalent at all.
stuart_zechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-74631778828188580602012-09-03T17:44:00.001+00:002012-09-03T17:44:16.508+00:00Z-Files: "Extremists"
Z-Files, 02/28/2012 "Extremists"
I'm Stuart Zechman, and I've heard something that really disturbs
me.
I've heard that the Republican Party is now populated with wild
extremists, right-wing lunatics who are completely divorced from
reality, and so, like never before in American history, the GOP is
now totally unreasonable and insane, and, if they get stuart_zechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-64697944226159035672012-05-19T16:04:00.007+00:002012-05-19T16:32:50.704+00:00Pow Wow's comment, one year onPow Wow's comment, one year onBDBlue mentioned in comments to this post at The Sideshow an excellent comment from last year to a post by Glenn Greenwald called "The Patriot Act and bipartisanship". That comment by Pow Wow is difficult to find thanks to the permalink at Salon being screwed up, so I thought I'd post it here to make a direct link for it. [Two countries divided note: For reasons IAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-61707881179007488412012-01-19T06:08:00.006+00:002012-01-19T15:16:33.241+00:00PPACA: The Third Way To Lowering Health Care Prices?PPACA: The Third Way To Lowering Health Care Prices?Stuart Zechman[I asked Stuart to post something here that explained one of the big reasons medical costs are so high in the United States that is unrelated to the forces we usually discuss. He felt that this comment he posted in late 2010 at Swampland helped unpack it. - Avedon]http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/11/10/stuart_zechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-45940978854002350572011-03-16T23:01:00.013+00:002011-04-19T13:43:02.836+00:00The Difference Between Us and ThemThe Difference Between Us and Themby Stuart ZechmanBriefly summarizing this representative Third Way policy memo from pre-financial crash, 2007:Laissez-faire is bad, because markets and the state would still fight.Liberalism is bad, because the state and markets would still fight.Both sides' agendas are burdened by the intellectual chains of obsolete ideological dogma, while we Third Way, on the stuart_zechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-5948989557395633682011-01-29T14:52:00.003+00:002011-01-29T23:17:23.801+00:00Kevin Baker's SOTU emailKevin Baker's SOTU emailResponding to Obama's State of the Union address, journalist Kevin Baker sent out this email:The real problem with Obama’s speech tonight was, once again, the historical narrative that he led off with, and that he is determined to have us believe.That is:Once upon a time, Americans had all sorts of really good jobs because “they only had to maybe compete against their Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-53029052036114417492011-01-15T15:56:00.002+00:002011-01-15T16:58:23.801+00:00The Centrist Duck TestThe Centrist Duck TestA year-and-a-half ago, some folks thought I was bizarre for saying that Obama is an ideological centrist.I was told back then that I was a little weird for talking about all of this "New Democrat" and "Third Way" centrist stuff, and comparing Obama's policies all of the time to the DLC's "Progresive Policy Institute" think tank policy memos.It was relayed to me that Obama stuart_zechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-12688597645826455702010-12-14T18:33:00.005+00:002010-12-14T22:54:38.301+00:00Is Larry Summers Really a Conservative?Is Larry Summers Really a Conservative?http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/12/13/larry-summers-warning-about-the-growth-of-government-transcript/comment-page-1/#comment-223886(At Swampland, Michael Scherer posts the wisdom of Larry Summers in the form of his exit address to the Economic Policy Institute, the transcript of which is well worth reading in full, and then after which the question is stuart_zechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-90102423264472673762010-11-23T19:47:00.005+00:002010-11-23T21:21:22.042+00:00For the Good of Fox News Democrats, Obama Must Resign...TodayFor the Good of Fox News Democrats, Obama Must Resign...Today(my response taken from Swampland commentary)lauriefive:You write: "When asked what he's going to do about the deficit, Obama should reply loud and clear and repeatedly that he will get Americans back to work and the economy booming again." No, he mustn't do that!No, no!Obama should reply loud and clear that he welcomes business stuart_zechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-65194368767389489362010-10-06T19:50:00.006+00:002010-10-06T21:11:21.024+00:00Is "Healthcare.gov" Worth $8.7 Million? Who's Asking?by Stuart ZechmanAt Swampland, Kate Pickert asks the commentariat for feedback on the value of the new government web site "Healthcare.gov":The Health Care Number of the Day - $8.7 MillionPosted by Kate Pickert Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 1:01 pmI've praised the web site for being easy to use and for including a gigantic amount of information about private and public insurance plans which havestuart_zechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-73147862756144623462010-09-27T19:44:00.011+00:002010-09-27T22:01:47.662+00:00In which I ask Michael Crowley if he remembers Canditate Obama's health care planby Stuart ZechmanAt Swampland, Michael Crowley casually makes the case for the PPACA, and I respond in commentary, as reprinted below:Michael Crowley,You write:"The ongoing publicity around those new measures--and the tangible changes in many Americans' lives-- might warm the public to Obamacare."What many of us movement liberals particularly resent is the tiny population of beneficiaries being stuart_zechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-13686840455490484342010-03-07T12:30:00.005+00:002010-03-08T03:48:58.037+00:00Imagine, if you will....Imagine, if you will....by Stuart ZechmanImagine, if you will, that the only food that people have to eat comesfrom McDonald's.Now imagine that a strange phenomenon occurs, in which it is noticed (but, oddly, not widely reported) that Americans on the Canadian border seem to stream across into Canada to buy their Big MacsIt is discovered, and the information spreads through word of mouth on the Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-18923070537530871692008-07-16T15:04:00.003+00:002008-07-16T15:15:39.731+00:00BabelBABELby CMikeSince World War II scores of front rank politicians, business leaders, and economists have championed globalization. John Foster Dulles, Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz and Robert Rubin are some of the American cabinet secretaries who have promoted the transnational economic rights of capital. Bush 41 deserves a special mention for his role in advancing globalization.Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-29750867987919807882008-04-15T22:01:00.002+00:002008-04-15T22:02:33.032+00:00Guess what it isGuess what it isAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-32905829095332766682007-11-22T00:36:00.000+00:002007-11-22T00:47:28.651+00:00Blogosphere not as radical as pundits thinkBlogosphere not as radical as pundits thinkby Gene LyonsIt's no exaggeration to say that the establishment media's initial response to the blogosphere was panic. The idea of mere citizens talking back to the press was unsettling to Washington media celebrities. Pundits who'd exhibited no qualms about the sordid imaginings of, say, American Spectator or The Wall Street Journal editorial page Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-19727042870978174962007-11-15T02:13:00.000+00:002007-11-15T02:31:51.132+00:00Hillary's record withstands 'character' attacksby Gene LyonsMaybe somebody ought to give Iowa waitress Anita Esterday a political TV talk show. She couldn't be any worse than, say, MSNBC's Tucker Carlson. Recently, the boyish pundit has been suggesting that there's something deeply weird about female voters who support Sen. Hillary Clinton because they'd like a woman president, although it's Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-49856825215333081142007-07-20T02:43:00.000+00:002007-07-20T03:06:08.368+00:00Politics, Sitcom-styleby Gene Lyons(For some reason, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette chose not to publish Gene's column this week, so he passed it on to Moose & Squirrel to post. I'm reproducing it here as a back-up.)It's rare that this column defends Robert Novak, so listen up. After his disgrace-ful conduct in the Plame affair, how the self-styled "Prince of Darkness" appears on TV without aAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-29732791099200567492007-06-15T00:17:00.000+00:002007-07-20T03:19:34.644+00:00Republicans have locked up the pundit vote by Gene LyonsNobody knows who next year's presidential candidates will be. This column has no particular favorite and will make no predictions. Even so, it's not necessary to be a prophet to know how Beltway pundits will handle the so-called character issue. The Republican nominee will be a virile, decisive straight-shooter who's 100 percent "authentic" Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-66463767585354715912007-05-23T19:28:00.000+00:002007-05-23T19:30:11.439+00:00As seen on TVAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-86577692716340768862007-04-28T11:38:00.000+00:002007-04-28T11:39:30.838+00:00 Put Bush's 'puppy dog' terror theory to sleep - Richard Clarke.Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-57782026119922571072007-04-27T13:25:00.000+00:002007-04-27T13:33:38.804+00:00Stupid NYT tricksPublic Remains Split on Response to WarmingNinety percent of Democrats, 80 percent of independents and 60 percent of Republicans said immediate action was required to curb the warming of the atmosphere and deal with its effects on the global climate. Nineteen percent said it was not necessary to act now, and 1 percent said no steps were needed.Right, so even when a large majorityAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.com0