NathanNewman.org: Clone of the Attack

Regular Comments Working, Finally! - After much struggle, I've upgraded to Moveable Type 3.1. After lots of fiddling, comments seem to be working. Under the... MORE...

False Immigration Assumptions for Social Security - The vision of the future painted by the social security crisis mongers is pretty dark: an aging nation unable to... MORE...

Tsunami Relief to Cut Funds for Other Poor Countries - Guess what? That $350 million for Tsunami relief is not going to be new money in the budget, but is... MORE...

January 03, 2005

Social Security: No Crisis - This is a first in a series discussing social security The biggest trap for progressives in challenging Bush on Social... MORE...

Rehnquist and Judicial Impeachment - In what may be his swan song, Chief Justice Rehnquist in his 2004 year-end report on the federal judiciary lays... MORE...

January 02, 2005

Bush Budget Lies - The things about Bush lies is that just when you don't think he can do soemething more intellectually corrupt and... MORE...

January 01, 2005

Posner on Why Democracy is Amoral and Ignorant
... and Why That's a Good Thing - Judge Richard Posner is guest blogging at Leiter Reports and has a post on why morality has to influence politics... MORE...

Open Source Expands in Developing World - Venezuela is moving its government operations to Linux: Venezuela is expected to save millions of dollars on Microsoft licence fees... MORE...

Best Movies of 2004 - With the caveat that I haven't seen a number of films released in the last few weeks, here are my... MORE...

December 31, 2004

Spain Legalizes Same Sex Marriage - Joining Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands, Spain has legalized gay marriage. And closer to home, California Grants Gays Many Benefits... MORE...

Brewing GOP Civil War on Immigration - No issue is potentially more explosive for the GOP than immigration, where core constituencies of the conservative movement are ready... MORE...

December 30, 2004

Why Should I Care More About Florida Hurricanes? - When disaster hit Florida the US Government allocated $13 billion in aid to help the victims, but as the New... MORE...

December 29, 2004

Spending Too Much on War on Terror - The last three years has been a lesson in how blind people can be to the real risks that effect... MORE...

December 28, 2004

On Tsunamis and Thailand - Well, I struggled back to the US Sunday night after a 24-hour flight from Bangkok, only to find out that... MORE...

December 24, 2004

Reframing Environmentalism -- and the Left - Adam Werbach's speech is finally available, and what it has to say about refraiming, the Kerry campaign, and the Apollo... MORE...

December 22, 2004

World's Poor Lowest Priority - Morals are not about abstract "social issues." They are what you do when faced with choices, what you do when... MORE...

December 21, 2004

Oregon Election a Smart Growth Backlash? Maybe Not - One of the many unpleasant November defeats for progressives was the passage of Oregon's Measure 37, which lets landowners sue... MORE...

December 20, 2004

Let's Take the Paganism Out of Christmas! - It's Christmas time again, that time of the year when people comes together and, in the spirit of Christ, declare... MORE...

December 18, 2004

Thailand- plus a little Cambodia - Well, after a week of travel, sun and awe before ruined temples, I have a few minutes to write a... MORE...

December 17, 2004

Carl Pope Fires Back - The debate over the future of environmentalism is heating up! Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, has written... MORE...

December 16, 2004

I Iz Not Working - The government can't do anything right, right? Especially not those lazy union bureaucratic teachers in public schools -- charter schools... MORE...

It's Good to be A New Yorker - Tina Brown on the Kerik fiasco: It turns out that all that Capitol Hill huffing and puffing for three weeks... MORE...

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