The Fabric Is Strong, but It's Not Indestructible

(Blog Post) Or maybe it's not just Arkansas and there's something very wrong with our political system, put under a serious strain by the "conservative lunatic brigade," stuck in a "perverse nonsense feedback loop." Full Story »

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by Kaizar Campwala - Sep. 4, 2009

Good contextual information and Arkansas. Unfortunately Bennen substitutes insight for partisan name calling, which does nothing to heal the civic fabric he refers to.

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by Randy Morrow - Sep. 6, 2009

This post references and comments on Joe Klein's blog post on the Time website: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/09/03/it-gets-worse/

The crazies have a political party, a cable news network, and a loud, activist base. They’re mad as hell and they’re not going to take their medications anymore. More »

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