Farewell From CommonSense2
Our readership is stronger than ever and growing by leaps and bounds. Our writers are talented and dedicated, and I’ll compare their level of excellence to any political publication on…
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Farewell From CS2
Our readership is stronger than ever and growing by leaps and bounds. Our writers are talented and dedicated, and I’ll compare their level of excellence to any political publication on the internet. Our five year readership goal was met in the first two years. Our 10 year readership goal is almost met and may well be with this, our December-January final issue.
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The Winter of Our Discontent
The fight ahead might not appeal to many Progressives, as it isn’t about making dramatic gains in the near future. We are facing an all out fight to save the considerable gains that we have seen in the past three generations. And that should matter to every last one of us.
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The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
It would have been the title for Rush’s autobiography… Thank God Steve Martin got there first.
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Fairness and the Bristol Stomp
Looking for internships or jobs, America’s children learn that no matter how much they studied or worked, it was the boss’s niece or a boss’s friend’s son who was hired. Sometimes, the reason for rejection could be as simple as the boss thought the best candidate was intellectually superior or that the applicant had curly black hair and he liked only blondes.
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Moving Beyond Disdain
We had argued about politics; she argued for the Right and I for the Left. But during that argument I had seen something that I’d never seen in her before. She became very fearful and protective of herself; her energy became like that of a threatened animal: cagey, guarded, walking on figurative tip-toe around the opponent.
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Election Recriminations
Or, Why the Democrats Will Lose the Senate in 2012 There is nothing in the whole wide world less introspective than the Democrats who run our elections. Further, there is…
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