03 Jul, 2008
links for 2008-07-03
Posted by: Rob Bluey In: On My Radar
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When Michael Olneck was standing, arms linked with other protesters, singing “We Shall Not Be Moved” in front of Columbia University’s library in 1968, Sara Goldrick-Rab had not yet been born.
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It’s not often that one gets the opportunity to be among and converse with several hundred of the smartest people in the world, but that is precisely what I was able to do last week as a participant at Personal Democracy Forum 2008.
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It says something about liberals that a tip sheet on how to behave in public on Independence Day is even necessary, but here’s a sampling from the guide posted at MyDD.
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A lot of poor commentary has framed the Iraq war as a conflict of “choice” rather than of “necessity.” In fact, President George W. Bush chose to remove Saddam Hussein from power because he concluded that doing so was necessary.