North American links
About a new Canadian magazine which includes a review eviscerating John Ralston Saul’s take on the origins of Canadian democracy. And onto its second issue:
What follows is the most thorough debunking of Australia’s blame-the-pommie-bastards myth you are likely to read, written in a style at once lively and learned, by a bold Australian historian, Nigel Davies - and published in Canada, by Canadians.
Polling shows fear of big government in the US is at near record levels.
What US liberals think US conservatives get right. And what US conservatives think US liberals get right.
When you are reduced to lines such as:
Herman Cain- it's funny, the Republicans do know that he's darker than Barack Obama- maybe- but whiter on the inside
perhaps a rethink is in order?
Taking apart a particularly silly political column.
General social survey website.
A nice short post on politics as culture war.
US social mobility is high and increasing.
The vexed issue of mapping crime and which social indicators you use and how.
The US has not become any more unequal in income since 1994.
A court case over voting rights of African-American members of the Cherokee nation:
The ruling followed a Cherokee tribal decision to revoke the membership rights of the African-Americans, saying they were not Cherokee by blood. The freedmen say they were granted tribal membership by a 19th century treaty with the government, and filed suit against the Cherokees in federal court.
Suggesting world power may start flowing back to the US:
It is almost the only economic power with a fertility rate above 2.0 - and therefore the ability to outgrow debt - in sharp contrast to the demographic decay awaiting Japan, China, Korea, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
Europe's EMU soap opera has shown why it matters that America is a genuine nation, forged by shared language and the ancestral chords of memory over two centuries, with institutions that ultimately work and a real central bank able to back-stop the system.
The 21st Century may be American after all, just like the last.
Study finds that voters reward policy positions more (pdf) than policy outcomes:
The buck that stops with Members of Congress is for the positions they take, not for the policy outcomes they preside over.
The bread and peace equation for presidential election prospects. Basically, if there is not a substantial improvement in economic conditions (which is, however, moderately likely), the Republicans would have to preselect a disastrous candidate for Obama to get re-elected. Why Truman’s 1948 “comeback” win is not a good example for Obama.
The Obama re-election campaign has so far raised more money from the financial sector than all the Republican candidates combined.
Hussein Barack Obama as someone born and raised in very well-connected networks:
That class knows about America only that it must be changed, and looks at the vast majority of Americans the way carpenters look at warped pieces of lumber. Barack Obama is neither more nor less than its product and agent.
Arguing that Obama has been the most moderate of postwar Democrat presidents and Bush II the most conservative.
What follows is the most thorough debunking of Australia’s blame-the-pommie-bastards myth you are likely to read, written in a style at once lively and learned, by a bold Australian historian, Nigel Davies - and published in Canada, by Canadians.
Polling shows fear of big government in the US is at near record levels.
What US liberals think US conservatives get right. And what US conservatives think US liberals get right.
When you are reduced to lines such as:
Herman Cain- it's funny, the Republicans do know that he's darker than Barack Obama- maybe- but whiter on the inside
perhaps a rethink is in order?
Taking apart a particularly silly political column.
General social survey website.
A nice short post on politics as culture war.
US social mobility is high and increasing.
The vexed issue of mapping crime and which social indicators you use and how.
The US has not become any more unequal in income since 1994.
A court case over voting rights of African-American members of the Cherokee nation:
The ruling followed a Cherokee tribal decision to revoke the membership rights of the African-Americans, saying they were not Cherokee by blood. The freedmen say they were granted tribal membership by a 19th century treaty with the government, and filed suit against the Cherokees in federal court.
Suggesting world power may start flowing back to the US:
It is almost the only economic power with a fertility rate above 2.0 - and therefore the ability to outgrow debt - in sharp contrast to the demographic decay awaiting Japan, China, Korea, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
Europe's EMU soap opera has shown why it matters that America is a genuine nation, forged by shared language and the ancestral chords of memory over two centuries, with institutions that ultimately work and a real central bank able to back-stop the system.
The 21st Century may be American after all, just like the last.
Study finds that voters reward policy positions more (pdf) than policy outcomes:
The buck that stops with Members of Congress is for the positions they take, not for the policy outcomes they preside over.
The bread and peace equation for presidential election prospects. Basically, if there is not a substantial improvement in economic conditions (which is, however, moderately likely), the Republicans would have to preselect a disastrous candidate for Obama to get re-elected. Why Truman’s 1948 “comeback” win is not a good example for Obama.
The Obama re-election campaign has so far raised more money from the financial sector than all the Republican candidates combined.
Hussein Barack Obama as someone born and raised in very well-connected networks:
That class knows about America only that it must be changed, and looks at the vast majority of Americans the way carpenters look at warped pieces of lumber. Barack Obama is neither more nor less than its product and agent.
Arguing that Obama has been the most moderate of postwar Democrat presidents and Bush II the most conservative.