ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com - 11/17/2008
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Seriously, no more on who's at fault and who isn't. But this piece by Will Saletan deserves mention. Two major things. First Saletan is forced to recant a major plank in his thesis: I originally wrote that blacks "made the difference" on Prop 8. I calculated this based on a margin of passage of ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/13/2008
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Paulson says the Troubled Assets Relief Program won’t
actually be buying any troubled assets . On the...
policy merits, I think Paulson’s shift into recapitalization was the right idea. Or, rather, the people who I’ve chosen to trust ...
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Taking the “TA” Out of “TARP”
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Why Blacks Will Embrace Gays One Day?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... prenatal hormones to genetics to birth order, scientists have been
sifting data to nail down homosexuality's biological origins. As they
advance, it will become easier and easier to persuade African-Americans
that being gay is a lot like being black. The lesson of Proposition 8
isn't that blacks have stopped the march of gay rights. The lesson is
that when they turn, the fight in blue America will essentially be over. Ta-Nehisi takes issue with Saletan labeling African Americans "left-leaning": Any writer who's spent significant ...
Uhm, is "racist" the same as "thinking you guys foolish because this is a) your actual reasoning or b) what you tell each other because you don't have a very good answer"?
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Sheesh:
Any writer who's spent significant time in the suburbs of Atlanta, on the South-Side of Chicago, or here in Harlem, knows
that black people aren't "left-leaning"--they just think the GOP is racist. Surveys may show blacks leaning-left on
certain issues (minimum wage? ending the war?) but take it from an actual black leftist, there is a conservative streak
running through black America wider than the Mississippi. Don't confuse "enemy of my enemy"-ism, with actual sympathy.
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