"Reducing inequality" is the model that *most* energizes both the conservatives *and* the libertarians *against* the progressives. (I'm somewhere in the confusing progressive libertarian quadrant, sadly.) It would be a disastrous position for the democratic party to take as central.
But the libertarians generally oppose repressive social policies and foreign wars (non-initiation of force being the primary libertarian principle), and generally favor smaller deficits over larger ones.
And the conservatives *also* favor smaller deficits, and many of them *also* oppose wars of aggression.
And everybody except -- I don't know what the fuck they are. *Everybody* opposes torture. Don't they? And supports the rule of law? Well, everybody except Republicans, anyway.
I've found a couple of articles mentioning the school visit on news.google.com, but none about the restrictions on protest and the threat of expulsion yet.
How about Secret Service contacts? I'd imagine they're the ones who asked for the restriction.
Anybody who has trouble distinguishing hand-cranked from electric hasn't done a 500-copy run. (And I was there, and involved.)
All guitars are very fine things, except the ones that aren't, and sometimes the ones in the wrong hands. Don't blame the instruments.
There's a name for those never-to-be-sufficiently-damned bread donuts? Heresy! It's the first step in trying to legitemize the damned things.
Definitely not trackball. Mouse, or tablet. Can't use arm movements with a trackball (which, I know, makes them useful for fighting various disabilities; luckily I don't yet have them).
Shaken. Stirring takes too long to dissolve the powdered sugar in the bourbon sour. If you've got simple syrup, then stirring is okay. But using an actual shaker for its actual purpose is kind of a kick.
And several issues I have no position or a radically off-center position on.
Lightning is completely wrong about one thing. The right to deadly force in self defense is not particularly eroded as a principle. And except for a few backwards states like Massachusetts, the motion has been in a pro-rights direction rather than an anti-rights direction in general.
There are more and more places in the United States where it's legal to carry a gun to defend yourself. 35 states now have shall-issue carry permits (or none required at all, in the case of Vermont). These states include eastern, western, northern, and southern states. They include states with very large cities, and states without. They include farming states and ranching states and rust belt states and midwest states. They are the home to more than half the population of the united states.
And isn't the ISFDB a welcome relief from the upstart at www.iblist.com? Quite apart from the depth of content, which ISFDB has a big head-start on, they *also* have a vaguely sane concept of what information is worth accumulating. So far as I can tell the Internet Book List hasn't even decided if they're tracking editions or works.
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