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I guess you didn't read the stuff on the blogs a few weeks ago expressing surprise that the new token Democrat on the WSJ op ed page is an actual lefty rather than a DLC type or meek mannered Alan Colmes copy?
by MarekNYC on Wed May 14th, 2008 at 06:30:34 PM EST
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But we're going beyond "lefty" and are entering pretty sensitive territory here...

I'm still amazed they'd print something like this.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 04:06:42 AM EST
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You're not familiar with Thomas Frank of What's the matter with Kansas? fame, I take it.  He's a populist.  Remember Obama's Bittergate "controversy"?  This guy is the one who popularized the main thesis, about how Dems lost the Plains and the South by basically forgetting its modern roots in the Depression under Roosevelt.

I'm a big fan, and he's a great addition to the WSJ if this is a permanent thing.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 08:51:14 AM EST
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but I did not know he had become a permanent editorialist and that this was not a one-off.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 09:39:47 AM EST
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