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I'm now blogging at coloradoprogressive.com. Same great insights, new name and location. Come check it out!http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/08/introducing-coloradoprogressivecom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-236316156910879326Fri, 08 May 2009 01:48:00 +00002009-05-07T20:03:29.051-06:00Aaron BelkinDan ChoiDon't Ask Don't TellThink President Obama ought to address Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy regarding gays in the military in a hurry? Then this will really get you fired up. What I like most about Belkin's assessment is that the Pentagon and Congress can't protect the commander-in-chief from ultimate responsibility for the dismissal of capable, talented, and driven men and women from America's armed forces. Belkin http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/05/belkin-dont-like-dadt-blame-falls-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-1130122912665154178Tue, 05 May 2009 16:12:00 +00002009-07-08T06:54:35.623-06:00Diane WoodObama Supreme Court AppointmentSonia SotomayerShould the Supreme Court ban a repeat pedophile from city parks on the basis of the individual's thoughts? Slate's Emily Bazelon takes a look at this very question as it pertains to Diane Wood, a Clinton appointee to the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and potential nominee to the Supreme Court.To be clear, the case is not before the Supreme Court, nor is it scheduled to be. But in Doe v. City http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-wood-and-sotomayer-wont-be-activist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-4307148474035216217Mon, 04 May 2009 19:56:00 +00002009-05-04T14:28:50.050-06:00Jennifer GranholmObama Supreme Court AppointmentMatt Yglesias makes an interesting suggestion. I have no opinion, but thought it worth passing along for consideration. Her name does come up in more than one place as a short list contender. Granholm, FWIW, was Biden's sparring partner in the run-up to the VP debate. Rumor has it she cut a mean Palin:Many parallels have been drawn between the two governors as being attractive ex-beauty queen http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/05/michigans-granholm-for-supreme-court.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-1707608537422062389Mon, 04 May 2009 14:05:00 +00002009-05-04T08:41:30.914-06:002010 Pennsylvania Democratic PrimaryArlen SpecterJoe SestakNate SilverSteve BenenSo Arlen Specter switched parties. Have Democrats been too quick to get behind their newest senator? Steve Benen offers some key insights as to why Specter might not be the team player Dems hoped to recruit. Which begs the question: Should the DNC and the DSCC necessarily rally behind the incumbent Specter? It bears noting that, while Specter's switch certainly doesn't hurt the Democratic Party, http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/05/challenging-specter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-6490278305600689277Fri, 01 May 2009 22:27:00 +00002009-05-01T16:32:00.125-06:00Don't Ask Don't TellGays in the MilitaryObama AdministrationIs revision of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy off the agenda? Via Benen, Greg Sargent catches a discouraging omission.http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/05/wheres-dadt-on-white-house-web-site.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-6207691624658011423Fri, 01 May 2009 17:46:00 +00002009-05-01T12:19:39.091-06:00Arlen SpecterDavid SouterMatthew YglesiasI've been reading all week about whether or not the Specter switch is that big of a deal. Matthew Yglesias suggests that, in regard to the Souter announcement, Specter as Democrat really is a big deal because the switch covers a lot of ground on the partisan hackometer. See, if Specter has to run against a hardcore conservative challenger in the 2010 GOP primary, then the senator will come out http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/05/if-its-about-supreme-court-then-specter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-7036688978874153583Fri, 01 May 2009 14:39:00 +00002009-05-01T08:46:48.201-06:00Bobby JindalLouisiana BudgetThink Progress looks into the budget wizardry of Louisiana's Bobby Jindal: NFL's Saints up $85 million, state health care and education down $1.6 billion.http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/05/jindal-watch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-5052764825671323139Fri, 01 May 2009 12:01:00 +00002009-05-01T06:41:18.381-06:00Closing GuantanamoDetainees in U.S. PrisonsLeavenworthSam BrownbackSupermaxAm I reading this the wrong way, or is it unseemly for grown politicians to beg the government not to house notorious criminals in . . . maximum security prisons? Members of Congress were already pleading with Gates on Thursday not to send the detainees to their states. "Please not at Leavenworth," said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.Really, Senator? Because if I were a constituent in Kansas, I'd http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/05/gop-lawmakers-contend-us-prisons-weak.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-279433585690050387Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:13:00 +00002009-04-29T06:51:26.205-06:00Senate ConfirmationsSenior Level Cabinet AppointmentsI'm not sure which is more striking: that 100 days into the new administration more than two thirds of senior offices in every cabinet department are still vacant, or that, apparently, that's the norm. A look inside the numbers paints an even bleaker picture. Only 48 of 349 positions have cleared the final hurdle to begin work, Senate confirmation. It's been pointed out before, especially in http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/understaffing-new-administration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-6932574645412817278Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:18:00 +00002009-04-28T22:06:39.829-06:00All Things ConsideredEPAFree EnterpriseLisa JacksonMichele NorrisSomebody get Lisa Jackson a cheat sheet. She did a fine job in her interview on NPR today, until Michele Norris asked about the role of government. In a discussion about strategies to regulate greenhouse gases from cars (starts at the 2:42 mark on the interview), and about how to tie such regulations to economic viability, Jackson stated that "the president has said, and I couldn't agree more, http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/epas-jackson-fumbles-free-enterprise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-1115111565891651348Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:57:00 +00002009-04-22T07:08:22.817-06:00Barack ObamaEugene RobinsonHugo ChavezSummit of the AmericasTrinidadI generally like Eugene Robinson, and hats off to him for winning that Pulitzer. But yesterday's column advocating for theatrics from a traveling president leaves me dissatisfied. "Theatricality is one of the weapons in any leader's arsenal," Robinson writes, "and a well-timed glower or growl can have more impact than a sheaf of position papers."When wingers and warmongerers chastise the http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/eugene-robinson-on-obamachavez.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-8500332533759371777Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:03:00 +00002009-04-21T06:10:58.600-06:00Anniversary of Columbine ShootingColorado is inundated this week with reminders about Columbine. This article about five of the student survivors is one of the most striking things I've seen. Ten years after the tragedy, those students still walk the halls of Columbine High every day . . . as teachers.http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/columbine-grads-return-to-teach.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-9159228803238164031Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:53:00 +00002009-04-21T05:58:59.570-06:00Army Recruiting StandardsEconomic CrisisClearly good news coming out of a bad economy: The Army last month stopped accepting felons and recent drug abusers into its ranks as the nation's economic downturn helped its recruiting, allowing it to reverse a decline in recruiting standards that had alarmed some officers.Read the rest here.http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/army-standards-improve-as-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-5639644038896418675Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:43:00 +00002009-04-18T22:47:14.185-06:00Log Cabin RepublicansMeghan McCainSam SteinIf Meghan McCain can keep talking truth to power within her own party, then I've got a lot of hope for the next wave of Republican figureheads, leaders, and--watch out--activists. Last month McCain asked Ann Coulter to explain some things, then a week later she took the fight to Laura Ingraham. Now, HuffPo's Sam Stein captures McCain's comments this evening to the Log Cabin Republicans, and the http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/meghan-mccain-to-log-cabin-republicans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-2674273349684610811Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:00:00 +00002009-04-18T19:02:46.995-06:00Hadi GhaemiIran Revolutionary CourtRoxana SaberiNPR's Jacki Lyden spoke with Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Ghaemi, an Iranian dissident who has spent the last 25 years in the United States, says Iran doesn't know how to respond to the new, open hand of the Obama administration, and that hard-line elements within the country have seized on the case of Roxana Saberi to sow conflict with the U.S.Ghaemi has http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/iran-speaks-conflict-understanding-case.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-8266462148087276371Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:36:00 +00002009-04-18T12:58:16.262-06:00Euna LeeJean LeeLaura LingNorth KoreaU.S. JournalistsNPR ran a story two days ago on the very quiet, ongoing detention of U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, captured last month by the North Korean government. AP's Jean Lee discusses the high-stakes nature of the journalists' detention as Pyongyang looks for ways to increase leverage in global nuclear negotiations.At 3 min, 39 seconds, the story gives a brief hint at the complex relationship http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/us-journalists-still-detained-in-north.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-4341511772670568839Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:31:00 +00002009-04-18T10:02:02.363-06:00Iran Revolutionary CourtRoxana SaberiThe New York Times tells us that American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has been convicted of spying in an Iranian court and sentenced to 8 years in prison. Scott Lucas offers food for thought about what propels the case inside Iran. I'm neither informed enough nor imaginative enough to speculate as to what may happen next. Ed Morrissey calls on Obama to drop the folksy charm so far employed http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/iranian-court-sentences-saberi-to-8.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-3338389394515398692Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:40:00 +00002009-04-17T16:51:40.783-06:00A.B. CulvahouseJohn McCainSarah PalinVP VettingAndy Barr has a striking piece at Politico citing John McCain's lead vetter in the quest for a VP candidate.A.B. Culvahouse, a powerful Washington lawyer and former counsel to President Reagan, told an audience of Republican lawyers that for McCain, selecting a vice president came down to three questions: Why do you want to be vice president? Are you prepared to use nuclear weapons? And the CIA http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/culvahouse-on-palin-she-knocked-those.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-2438941611767777199Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:46:00 +00002009-04-17T13:03:26.615-06:00Don't Ask Don't TellObama AdministrationRobert GatesSame-sex MarriageSteve SchmidtTPM posts divergent pieces today on equality for gays. While Steve Schmidt prepares to drag the GOP kicking and screaming toward acceptance of gay marriage, Robert Gates throws cold water on high hopes regarding the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy under the Obama administration.Schmidt earned all my scorn as the architect of John McCain's 2008 campaign of bile. But this move makes me http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/same-sex-marriage-and-dont-ask-dont.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-1559638642298771002Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:05:00 +00002009-04-16T22:08:57.172-06:00Map ErrorMercator vs PetersI made a big, huge, whopping error in a post below, enough so that I'll draw attention in a whole new post just to try and make up for the foul. Sorry, and thanks for reading anyway!http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercator-er-peters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-411927765744232312Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:58:00 +00002009-04-16T22:03:50.117-06:00Election 2008Newman MapResultsRush LimbaughUPDATE: Big, huge, whopping correction below regarding maps and projections. Sorry for the haste.______A while back I posted a map of the 2008 presidential election results:That's the Newman map, a cartogram which projects the national vote based on state population, i.e. electoral votes, and not on state size, i.e. area.While checking into a recent (and unrelated) post, I unearthed this http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/that-election-map.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-4223249311733719440Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:46:00 +00002009-04-16T18:57:43.568-06:00Barack ObamaRick PerrySecessionTexas GovernorSeriously. It's a lot to swallow. But if you wanted to paint a modern president as a dramatic failure, can you think of a better way than by actually losing a state? Cast in that light, all the Texas-secession talk starts to make sense . . . sort of.http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/texas-secession-obama-failure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-1731736149363504134Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:05:00 +00002009-04-16T18:03:55.836-06:00Elements of StyleGeoffrey PullumStrunk and WhiteTalk of the Nation April 16 2009UPDATE: Pullum provides (a whole lot) more here. To be honest, I am insufficiently suited to appraise it all. _____I was just sending an email to the grammarians in my life when I figured, what the hell, why not share with everyone? [Dear Friends,]Heard this on NPR today and thought of all of you grammarians in my life. Really an interesting look at the evolution--and convolution--of modern http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/half-century-of-stupid-grammar-advice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098535173622828223.post-3625035711597344490Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:51:00 +00002009-04-16T17:45:29.985-06:00(RED)WIREMark JohnsonPlaying for ChangeStand By MeVia Andrew Hudson, this video really blows me away. I'm a softy and a sentimentalist, to be sure, but the goosebumps have not yet fallen.Check out Playing for Change and (RED)WIRE for more about change through music.http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/playing-for-change-and-redwire-stand-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Matt Plavnick)0