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Secession: a rough beast whose hour has come round at last?

Posted on 2010.03.29 by winterSmith 27 comments

I’d like to begin by showing you a picture and asking you what you see. Good. With that in mind, have a look at this one and tell me what you see.

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Democracy & Elitism 3: burning down the straw man, and who are these out-of-touch “liberal elites,” anyway?

Posted on 2009.12.07 by winterSmith 12 comments

Let’s begin with a quick trivia question. What legislator’s Top 20 donor list includes the following? Blackstone Group (Financial Services) Bain Capital FPL Group (Energy) DLA Piper (Corporate law firm, representing Global 1,000 and Fortune 500 companies) Kindred Healthcare Beacon Capital Partners Comcast Corp Brownstein, Hyatt et al (Corporate law firm) Venable LLP (Corporate law firm) Hummer Winblad Venture Partners