Hyper Partisanship is a trap of it's own making
This is my first entry in the Politics category. I have intentionally stayed away from politics on this blog for some time now. So I plan on posting more often and since politics was my first passion I will return to it.
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Bill Buckley vs Noam Chomsky
This one is bigger than Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. Over at Andrew Sullivan's blog he links to a youtube of Bill Buckley and Noam Chomsky debating in 1969.
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Political Forums
One of the problems with political blogs is that they only seems to attract like minded people to the site. Thus Daily Kos and the Free Republic draw rapid true believers which shout down any opposition to existing idealogy. As a result these forums tend to reinforce existing ideas and biases.
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effigy
Currently there is a great deal of controversy over an effigy of President Obama in a Rhode Island school after the school fired their teachers. President Obama stated, "Even as the president applauded Central Falls' reform, he conceded that firing teachers is the least preferred measure. "Replacing school staff should only be done as a last resort," he said at an education event on March 1.
"But if a school continues to fail its students year after year, if it doesn't show signs of improvement, then there's got to be a sense of accountability," Obama said. "And that's what happened in Rhode Island."
For more information go to CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/17/rhode.island.school.reform/
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