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9/11 Commission Report
Anyone looking for a project for the day can head over to: http://www.9-11commission.gov/. The 9/11 commission has just released their, suposedly harsh, report on 9/11 including the many intelligence fa ...
July 22, 2004 |
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A Political Blog That Wasn't
The other day I wrote about some marketing "blogs" that had no RSS feed. Well, thanks to a hot to from The Reverend, I have another feedless blog. The thing is, this one ...
March 29, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 4 COMMENTS
A School That Discourages Political Activism (UPDATED)
According to an email posted on daily KOS it appears as though a school in Wisconsin that George W. Bush recently visited refused to allow students to wear any pro-Kerry clothing or risk expulsion. Here's the <a h ...
October 27, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 8 COMMENTS
America as Jekyll & Hyde
The following letter to the editor appeared in the Norwalk Hour on 9/29/04 in the Letters to the Editor section. I received this in an email from my mother this morning along with this message: < ...
September 29, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
An Argument
After some baiting by my Floridian cousin, a Bush supporter, I decided to post this on our fantasy football message board: Here's a democrat who's pissed off about the election. I'm pissed off that I live in a country that believes it's m ...
November 5, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
An Argument: My Reponse
Below you will find a point-by-point breakdown of Josh's statements followed by my responses. 1. Don't blame the republicans because the world hates us. The world hates us because they are jealous of what we have. Response: This is ...
November 5, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 7 COMMENTS
An Open Letter to A Very Sad American
By Jeff Hughes Editor's Note: I was sent a letter from a woman calling herself A Very Sad American outlining why she voted for George W. Bush. She asked me to post her letter and I only chose not to because she refused to give me her real name ...
November 7, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Apparently I Was Wrong
By David Kienzler Editor's note: This is the third in a series of essays about last night's election. Feel free to submit your own at writing@noahbrier.com. I was in Boston yesterday in the ba ...
November 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Avoiding Complexity?
By Barbara Rubin Brier Editor's Note: This is the fourth in what will hopefully be a long series of essays about the election. Feel free to send me your own thougts at writing@noahbrier.com. I ...
November 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Barack Obama's Speech
For those who missed Barack Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention last night, as I did, you can read the <a href="http://www.obamaforillinois.com/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC={4C624248-27E9-4 ...
July 28, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Eighteen in Washington DC
By Leah Rebecca Brier This is the sixth in a series of essays by family/friends/the rest of the world about the election on November 2nd. If you'd like to add your own thoughts email them to writing@noahb ...
November 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Election Night
12:51pm - Fox has announced Ohio for Bush. Kerry is 140,000 votes behind. It's pretty much all over. I don't know what to say. 8:14pm - CNN and MSNBC reporting: Kerry: Mass., Conn., NJ, Del., MD, DC, Ill. (77) Bush: Okla., Ga., Tenn., ...
November 2, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Election Protection
By Elenor Denker Editor's Note: This is eighth in a series of writings on the election. Thanks to everyone who has participated and if you are interested in having your thoughts published email them to wr ...
November 4, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Election Reflections
It's been a while since I discussed politics, but Rolling Stone has posted an article titled <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6635609?pageid=rs.Politics&pageregion=single1&rnd=11022674 ...
December 8, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Even My Friends?
By Jarrett DeMent Editor's Note: This is the tenth in a series of reactions to the election. Thanks so much to everyone that's gotten involved and sent me their thoughts. If you'd like to add your own email me at <a href="mailto:writing@noahbr ...
November 4, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 15 COMMENTS
Evidence of a Problem
I was just reading this Guardian article about North Korea's admission of its nuclear arsenal and it included this quote: "We have manufactured nukes f ...
February 10, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Faith Doesn’t Have to Be a Dirty Word
By Alexis Bohan Editor's Note: This is the 13th in a series of thoughts on the elections. Thanks to all those who submitted and if you want your voice heard email me at writing@noahbrier.com. ...
November 6, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Feeling Encouraged (UPDATED)
I've been feeling a final push for Kerry (or against Bush) in the last few days that has left me feeling good for Tuesday. First it was Andrew Sullivan's peice in The New Republ ...
October 29, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Guess the Newspaper
Take a wild guess what newspaper this excerpt comes from: Kerry seemed far better prepared than Bush, ready to counter the president's points while Bush often repeated himself and at times seemed at a loss for words or defensive. ...
October 1, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Hope
It's probably not a huge surprise that I'm pretty excited this morning. I don't know that I have a ton to add to the conversation, but I can't resist the opportunity to throw a few things into the commons. I spent a bit of time this morning ...
November 5, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Icons Getting Political
It seems like everyone is getting political this election season. There are interesting articles from The New York Times and Salon on Carlos Delgado of the Toron ...
July 21, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Jon Stewart on Crossfire
On October 15th The Daily Show's Jon Stewart went on CNN's Crossfire. (For those interested in watching the video you can fin ...
October 18, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Librarians with a Clue
Wired posted an article today about librarians standing up to the Patriot Act. Since I wasn't very nice to librarians in my writing ...
September 15, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Lost in a Sea of Conservatives
By Amy Brancato Unless you're here for the first time you realize this is one in a series of many people's reactions to the election, but I'll mention it anyway. If you'd like to add your own thoughts email them to <a href="mailto:writing@noah ...
November 4, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Mark Cuban is Funding the Grokster Legal Defense
Just read Mark Cuban's newest blog entry, "Let the truth be told…MGM vs Grokster" and in it he announces that he is going to be funding the legal defense of Grokster against MGM. ...
March 27, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
More Letters to the Editor
I received an email from Sean Hannon, author of the Jekyll & Hyde letter to the editor, and it turns out he has just started his ...
September 30, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
My Summary of the Executive Summary
I read the Executive Summary from the 9-11 Commission report. I pulled paragraphs that I found interesting out of the 31-page document. The only time I removed pieces from paragraphs were in the bulleted ...
July 22, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
My Two Cents
By Benjamin G. Joseloff Editor's Note: This is part of a series of reactions to the elections. Thanks to all involved. If you'd like to add your two cents email them to me at writing@noahbrier.com.</i ...
November 4, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Not Just Another Tuesday in November
By Jeff Hughes I was watching CNN today and heard a clip of Dubya saying the following about John Kerry (and I'm paraphrasing): "He has called the war in Iraq a colossal failure.  He has called it the wrong war.  How can we expect someone t ...
October 26, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Notes on the 2004 Presidential Election Part 1
By Jeff Hughes Marilyn O’Grady, a surgeon running for New York State Senate, is quoted in the completely unbiased New York Post as saying: "Here's my vote: Boycott the Boss. If you don't buy his politics, don't buy his music! ...
August 18, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Notes on the 2004 Presidential Election Part 2
By Noah Brier Michael Moore and Errol Morris both have made documentaries about politics. Both have won Oscars and both gave impassioned acceptance speeches. If asked, I assume both would call themselves liberals. This, however, is ...
August 18, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
One Week to Go
As everyone in the country knows, the election is only a week away, yet pollsters and pundits are still relatively clueless on the eventual outcome. There's a strong push from both sides and everyone seems to be making their choice for 44th presid ...
October 26, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Protesting Up Eighth Avenue
As I was finishing my chicken sandwich with bacon and swiss a protest began to emerge up Eighth Avenue. I watched for a bit and was fairly unimpressed. There were a lot of people, but there seemed to be very little cohesion. Yes, I understand that ...
August 30, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Race Authenticity
Just wanted to point everyone to an article by my friend Charlton McIlwain in The Gadflyer. In "Blacker Than Thou", Charlton discusses the similarities ...
September 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Radical Recommendations by a Former College President
In today's Time's there's an Op-Ed from John M. McCardell Jr., former President of Middlebury College in Vermont. The piece is titled "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/opinion/13mccardell.html?ex=1252814400&en=5618dd4a22610b26&ei=5090&pa ...
September 13, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Random Thoughts and Fears on the Re-Election of George W. Bush
By Michael Brier Editor's Note: Not sure if I need to keep mentioning this, but this is an essay in a series from people who want to tell the world how they feel about the re-election of George W. Bush. If you'd like to add your thoughts to th ...
November 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Repugnant Republic
By Pam Grossman Editor's Note: Here's another in the series, this one's not an essay but it's still a reaction. Send yours to writing@noahbrier.com You cut your wrists and ooze Coca-cola <br / ...
November 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Sad Day
By Anonymous Update (9/2/05): At the authors request I have changed the byline to "anonymous." Let it be known that this is not something I agree with. I don't believe in posting any writing by an anonymous author because if you're not willing ...
November 4, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Speaking Out Against Bush
I just got around to reading Ron Reagan's new essay in Esquire titled "The Case Against George W. Bush". It's a well-a ...
August 5, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
State of Shock
By Noah Brier Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of essays from anyone who feels like writing one about the election. If you want to share, email me at writing@noahbrier.com. I was ...
November 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Steps to Taking Back Our Country
After Ben's fantastic post, I wanted to post something positive. I've been trying to think about what we learned from this election and here are four points. I also want to ask one thing, if you're going to write something please try to refrain from ...
November 4, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
The Day After (and a Call for Submissions)
As you can see by the last entry, I tried to keep up with last night's election online until it got out of hand and I was refreshing about 30 websites every minute. I went to bed with Kerry down by 100,000 in Ohio and the hope of provisional ballo ...
November 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Top 10 Bush Tax Proposals
I missed Kerry on Letterman, but here's the top 10 list from the show [via WBAY]: 10. No estate tax for families with at least two U.S. presidents. 9. W-2 Form is now ...
September 22, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Voting (UPDATED)
Well, I'm off to vote. Kind of hard to comprehend the importance I think this day has. I remember the day two years ago when we went to war in Iraq and my mom told me she thought it was the beginnning of the downfall of America. I think this is ou ...
November 2, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
What We Are
By Jeff Hughes Editor's Note: Hopefully, this is the first in a series of essays by readers/friends/anyone who has something to say about the election. New York City. Los Angeles. Detroit. Boston. Seattle. St. Louis. San Francisc ...
November 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Woody Allen on Politics
On USAbroad.org they have posted an interview from Der Spiegel with Woody Allen. The whole interview is worth reading, Woody has some interest ...
September 29, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Youth in the Booth
On Election Day, the country held it’s collective breath as the numbers rolled in. No one knew exactly how it would turn out, but early exit polls had numbers skewing towards Kerry. Then as the evening progressed it became more and more appare ...
November 20, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS