Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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US Politics

28 Jun 2005, 9:03 a.m.

Eminem Domain

More John on Kelo! I'm glad y'all got a good price for the land. (I thought "arable" meant "good for farming.") But maybe your uncles were, you know, attached to the land. Pearl S. Buck's …

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28 Jun 2005, 8:52 a.m.

SCOTUS Jokes, Lapsing Into Seriousness

On Kelo v. New London: I keep accidentally calling it Keno v. New London, maybe since it's now a gamble whether you get to keep your land. Every Native American now gets to say, "How …

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11 May 2005, 11:01 a.m.

Requires Flash, But Isn't Flashy

The Morning News pointed me to this great explanation of the Social Security reform issue.

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22 Nov 2004, 14:36 p.m.

In Santiago And A Hospital

For some reason, mild violence struck twice around Bush at APEC this weekend. Reporters scuffled for the best seats at a press conference, and Chilean and US Secret Service bodyguards got into a fracas over …

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03 Nov 2004, 8:31 a.m.

Election Night, 2004

Things to remember about the several hours after that last hope: Pizza, booze, CNN, increasingly grim jokes. I couldn't believe that Coburn won, Bunning won, that the GOP would be consolidating its control of the …

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02 Nov 2004, 16:16 p.m.

Election Day, 2004

Things to remember about Election Day, November second, 2004: Going to sleep at 1:30 the morning of, crying and praying. I can't tell where the cold draft in my room is coming from, and it …

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02 Jul 2004, 10:16 a.m.

Also Includes "Really quick, is God on America's side?"

Sharpton, with whom I often disagree: "...George Bush has so let down what conservative -- I remember when conservatives were respectable." In the same debate, Kerry: "...is this president a legitimate Republican or conservative? Because …

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30 Jun 2004, 13:03 p.m.

"The government should pay for goods and services in wishes and fairy dust."

We should try not to spend much more than we earn, as people, as businesses, as governments. Note to Leonard: mentions agriculture subsidies!

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04 Jun 2004, 9:38 a.m.

"Scum-Sucking Bottom Feeders"

The writer of a letter to the editor used this epithet, which doesn't quite work, in my view. Jon Stewart has had the hilarious David Cross and the "Talking Points Memorized" Thomas Friedman on The …

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13 May 2004, 9:55 a.m.

Media Revue

All three of these bits of media experience have something to do with the Middle East! And I didn't even intend it. Last night's Enterprise provoked even more US/Middle East Allegory babble in me. The …

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