As I said, these attacks are as boring and clichéd as they are predictable: every person who deviates from orthodoxy on Israel and opposes these neocon smear campaigns is automatically subjected to them. Israel-hater. Anti-Semite. Self-hating Jew. Etc. etc. I’m boring myself even summarizing it.
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29 January 2012
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30 August 2011
Special Interests and the General Interest
It’s common to attribute the failure of American transportation policy to uniquely American features such as new urban design or low density, but when the same policy was tried elsewhere, it produced the same result. For example, compare Puerto Rico to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago, which have comparable density and income: Puerto Rico has Interstates, the rest have no freeways; Puerto Rico’s car ownership is higher than in most European countries, and twice that of the other middle-income Caribbean nations.
This also make Puerto Rico a boring place to visit. Go there and enjoy the American-style freeways, strip malls, drive-thus, parking lots, passenger trucks, and traffic jams. Or just stay home.
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29 August 2011
Tea Partiers and progressives have radically different theories of politics and governance, and radically different explanations for why Friedman and friends are wrong, but each camp definitely agrees that the demise of this sort of sophomoric neoliberal commentary would be a great thing for democracy.
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21 June 2011
There certainly are a lot of people who expend a lot of time and energy trying to prove that Obama’s left-wing critics represent only a tiny, fringe minority. The time and energy spent on that project rather clearly negates the authenticity of that ostensible belief.
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28 October 2010
We need your help to keep on pressing the case for transportation reform because, as a result of a court case pursued by the recording industry against Mark Gorton’s file-sharing company, LimeWire, he is no longer in a position to financially sustain our work. The upshot for Streetsblog NYC is simple: We need to develop a more diverse revenue stream, including direct support from our readers.
