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The Nation on the state of the state I'll recommend this Nation article about the resurgence of the Democratic Party in Texas. It's cool to see people you... Offthekuff.com Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Very good news. The development group that bought the shuttered Days Inn hotel on the southern end of downtown said... Offthekuff.com Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Leavin' on a balloon-powered lawn chair Gotta love people like this. Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled... Offthekuff.com Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Texas blog roundup for the week of July 7 So did you have a good holiday weekend? Nothing like a day off on Friday to make Saturday feel like... Offthekuff.com Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Getting the new commuter rail lines right Tory and Christof attended those public meetings on the proposed new commuter rail lines, and have some excellent suggestions for... Offthekuff.com Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Jackson Lee wants hearings on Harris County criminal justice Well, this ought to be interesting. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Sunday called for congressional hearings to investigate what... Offthekuff.com Tuesday, July 08, 2008 CHART OF THE DAY....Via Nukes & Spooks, this chart from a recent CSIS report is a vivid illustration of the deteriorating security situation in afghanistan. In addition to the relentlessly rising U.S. casualties shown below, CSIS also reports a steady... Washingtonmonthly.com Tuesday, July 08, 2008 I am remiss - here's something I should have blogged about some time ago.
Captain Jason Lynn is running a marathon to raise funds for soldiers and their families. Captain Lynn is an Apache helicopter pilot currently on his second tour in Iraq. He is planning to run a marathon in Florida in December to raise funds for an organization called Hope For The Warriors. H4TW raises money to help wounded soldiers and the families of those killed in action.
I just sent over $20 and hope you'll do the same. Donate here. Windsofchange.net Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Everybody's Got To Serve Someone... ...I used this title before for an Examiner column, but it's appropriate here as well.
Conservative heads are spinning over obama's national service proposal. Personally, I don't think it goes far enough. No, I'm serious.
OK, I'll wait a moment for my conservative readers to get to their smelling salts.
Recall that one of my great concerns (one shared by several of the Founders) is the stratification of American society. Our social compact only works when we all accept that we're all in this together, with the push and pull that comes when we realize that we really do sometimes have to "Join or Die" as the flag in the credits for 'John Adams' suggests.
You'll notice that social mobility in the US is declining, as families like ours (and richer families) manage to hand off the social capital of good upbringings and good education - as well as real capital - to our kids.
In today's society, there are really two arenas where there is significant mixing between the classes - public edu Windsofchange.net Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Over at the Corner, Ramesh Ponnuru asks:
Are you maintaining that to be an American patriot you have to believe that the U.S. is superior to all other countries? I loved my mother not because I truly believed that she was in some objective sense "the greatest mother in the world"...although I think I may have gotten her a coffee mug to that effect...but because she was mine. Can't we love our country the same way?
Well, no, not really. here we step into the question of American Exceptionalism, in which people like me suggest that American patriotism is fundamentally of a different class than all other patriotisms, because (I repeat tiresomely) it is not founded on a place, nor on a heritage, but on a set of ideas, to which any may freely subscribe.
I'll suggest that there are two components to American patriotism - one much like any other, which involves 'purple mountains majesty' and great Americans who contributed to making the place what it is today - and other, wholly unique, wh Windsofchange.net Tuesday, July 08, 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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