Posted on 12/23/2005 2:03:18 PM PST by FreeKeys
June 23, 2003
24-year-old Benjamin Wallace-Wells, who has spent
the past two and a half years on the suburban staff of The
Philadelphia Inquirer. Wallace-Wells, who grew up in the
Bronx, got his introduction to The Monthly as a youngster, after
his policy-wonk father and education-expert mother subscribed.
At Dartmouth College, he found his calling as editor of The
Dartmouth Review. He interned at The Boston Globe before
moving to Philly. It was the sense of being where the action was
that excited Wallace-Wells, he said. "The privilege of access was
something I really responded to," he said, as well as "the
ability to shape the ways in which we try to understand the
world."
http://tinyurl.com/au82b
Like the Democrats during the 1970s, today's GOP is hidebound and out of touch.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
"[T]he current version of the Republican Party is supremely powerful but ideologically incoherent, run largely by and for special interests and increasingly alienated from the broader voting public," writes Wallace-Wells.
As anecdotal evidence, he offers up the thoughts of a "conservative aide to an even more conservative senator." "What's infuriating," says the aide, "is that it's hard to know what the party stands for beyond defending a bunch of interests. I mean, look at the leadership -- who do you have? Frist? Hack. DeLay? Hack. Hastert? Total hack. I can't figure out if the administration are hacks or just don't care. John Kerry's running on budget deficits -- that's supposed to be our ****ing issue."
http://tinyurl.com/d96p8
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The Economist argues that, contrary to international opinion, America is actually "a selfish nation led by altruists." According to a study by the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, we're not "well-meaning innocents steered by a Machiavellian elite," but self-interested folk "much more interested in looking after number one -- in protecting their own jobs rather than promoting democracy abroad or fighting world poverty -- than [our] leaders are."
The Economist is published weekly by The Economist Group who also publishes European Voice and Roll Call – “the magazine of Capitol Hill.”
The Economist is targeted at top business executives as well as leaders and political figures worldwide.
The Economist brings you an international perspective for some of the most important topics that are being discussed today and helps you gain an informed viewpoint and get involved.
Even if that were true (and you can't do both at the same time) -- which it's not -- their point is ... what, exactly?
"Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations." -- Bryan Caplan, here.The Economist brings you an international perspective for some of the most important topics that are being discussed today and helps you gain an informed viewpoint and get involved.
Yeah. Right. Uh huh. Suuuure.
The Great Black Hope. What's riding on Barack Obama? ... Benjamin Wallace-Wells
is an editor of The Washington Monthly.
Benjamin
Wallace-Wells’s article, “Battered Women: Female boxing is brutal and hopeless“
Bush's War on Cops
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Washington Monthly, Sept 2003
Benjamin Wallace-Wells. "Rebels in Izods: why Virginia is tilting toward Kerry."
Washington Monthly, Sept. 2004
"There Goes the Neighborhood: Why home prices are about
to plummet—and take the recovery with them", by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, April 15, 2004
April 06, 2005
Just before the November elections, Benjamin Wallace-Wells, an editor at the Washington Monthly, gave us this pearl of wisdom:
"Political parties don't abandon their most cherished ideas, break with their most powerful interests, or dump their most entrenched leaders for high-minded civic reasons. They do so only when they lose elections again, and again, and again. And if history's any guide, that is going to be the eventual fate of today's Republican party".
http://tinyurl.com/c7ar5
Clown. Looks like someone's girlfriend.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, that's pretty funny. The Daily Kos isn't very far left. Right. If you're from the dark side of the moon.
Doesn't seem to be any chance of that.
When will Jim Robinson get his glowing profile written up in the MSM?
When I disavow metal ...
Yep. Never in the course of human events has someone so shallow been probed in such depth.
The irony is, of course, the soldiers and contractors that Kos hates so bitterly have been changing the world, and he and his fellow Deaniacs have completely misled his party. Long may he reign; they deserve him.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
I mean, why bother? The guy is a raving lunatic heading a million GenX numbnuts who don't vote. It's all been done before. See Cobain, Kurt.
See post #13 above.
"Then, of the 13 Democratic candidates for Congress that Moulitsas handpicked for his readers to support—and for whom he raised over $500,000– not a single one prevailed."
LOSER
Please Howie. Hire this self important moron to help you run the DNC. I would LOVE to see you explain in 2008 how you managed to elect a fillibuster proof Republican Senate Majority for us in 2006.
Republicans have a "noise machine" which is why the Swift Boat Vets were smeared from the word go yet we STILL cannot find out who picked Joe Wilson to go to Niger OR what the Gutless Senate means by "absuive treatement". What a pile of steaming moronic crap the Leftists are these days. Amazing anyone with this low an IQ can operate a computer.
Ah the old "report what I WANT to beleve instead of reality" school of Journalism.
Look at the picture -- he made Brian Lamb sit on a $10 folding chair. It will only take one Demon oligarchy meeting to convince Dean & Reid in early 2006 to switch to an "approved" Idiot blogger as their main Internet outlet.
And that's exactly what will happen -- the Demons have never tolerated loose cannons for any length of time, particularly when they undermine the revenue flow to the '23% Club' Demon mandarins in DC.
Their chaotic site design is enough to drive most sane people off.
DEMOCRATIC DATES!
Yes -- liberals really ARE sexy, dammit.
ActForLove.org - the dating site for Democrats, liberals, and activists.
I guess when Adult Friend Frinder just won't do.
Ummm, does that mean the clock is ticking for Howie?
This guy's motherboard is missing a few circuits.
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