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• Britons Want to Decrease Legal Immigration

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  People in Britain believe too many immigrants are entering the country, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 68 per cent of respondents think the number of legal immigrants who are allowed to relocate in the United Kingdom should decrease.In June 2007, Gordon Brown officially became Labour leader and ...
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• Populist Politics for Dummies

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 425
  Another Thanksgiving, and the same problem, as always – if you’re of the liberal persuasion, even though you try to hide it with some hedging and saying that you’re really a progressive, but not really that, rather just curious about things and open-minded and willing to listen, you know you’ll get hammered ...
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• Going Rogue "too dumb" for SF stores, but tome on psychedelic space travel is smart enough

  
  Texas for Sarah Palin — Authority: 629
  Pajamas Medias David Steinberg links to a San Freaksicko Chronicle quote from a really "smart" bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland on his reason for not stocking Sarah Palins memoir Going Rogue : "Our customers are thinking people. They’re not into reading drivel." So if former Governor Palins book is ...
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• Twitter Liberals?

  
  John Connell: The Blog — Authority: 417
  This month’s Prospect Magazine (still the most intelligent of the monthlies by a long way) offers the results of an interesting poll conducted on its behalf by YouGov in which, it seems, Twitter users across the UK do pretty well (a personal take, of course) on a relative continuum that goes from Authoritarian ...
  5 days ago

• Thoughts on Elitism

  
  Perpetual Anticipation — Authority: 126
  "Dont let your experience turn you in to an expert". This is a healthy reminder to keep your ego in check. To keep you from rambling on being divise to the purpose of collaboration and unity. However, if you find yourself being dished up lavish amounts of elitism, it seems there are two instinctual responses. You ...
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• Echoblowcation: Nota Bene #2009-41

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 592
  A few things for you NB readers: 1. NB is now numbered by year-issue instead of marked by date; 2. NB will continue to be issued weekly, but not necessarily on Monday night/Tuesday morning; 3. I liked last week’s format ( quoted line from source ) so much I’m repeating it. Enjoy! … “[O]ur recovery is likely to ...
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• Sarah Palin, Fauxpulism, and Right-Wing Identity Politics

  
  Comments from Left Field — Authority: 509
  (Image:  Tacoma Urbanist , Flickr) Sarah Palin is back — and, seemingly, everywhere, as she launches a book tour (and, perhaps, a run at the White House in 2012). Max Blumenthal : In a Republican Party hoping to rebound in 2010 on the strength of a newly energized and ideologically aroused conservative ...
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• Sarah Palin, Fauxpulism, and Right-Wing Identity Politics

  
  bastard.logic — Authority: 501
  by matttbastard (Image:  Tacoma Urbanist , Flickr) Sarah Palin is back — and, seemingly, everywhere, as she launches a book tour (and, perhaps, a run at the White House in 2012). Max Blumenthal : In a Republican Party hoping to rebound in 2010 on the strength of a newly energized and ideologically ...
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• Palin’s populist book tour won’t help GOP (The Christian Science Monitor)

  
  Ink and Virtue — Authority: 456
  
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• Palin’s populist book tour won’t help GOP (The Christian Science Monitor)

  
  Ink and Virtue — Authority: 456
  
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• Palin’s populist book tour won’t help GOP (The Christian Science Monitor)

  
  Ink and Virtue — Authority: 456
  
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• Palin’s populist book tour won’t help GOP (The Christian Science Monitor)

  
  Ink and Virtue — Authority: 456
  
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• Barack Obama’s Favorite Economist–John Maynard Keynes–A Great Guy?

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 433
  Listening to the late Murray Rothbard lecture on John Maynard Keynes, I was struck by how both Barack Obama and Maynard Keynes are very similiar. The arrogance, habitual lying, changing positions on issues on a dime, use of strawmen arguments, elitism, will to power, and ego mania describe both Keynes and Obama. ...
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• Palin’s populist book tour won’t help GOP (The Christian Science Monitor)

  
  Ink and Virtue — Authority: 456
  
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• Palin’s populist book tour won’t help GOP (The Christian Science Monitor)

  
  Ink and Virtue — Authority: 456
  
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Defining Merit

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 509
  What should be the goals and responsibilities of a great university? Should it strive to maximize the future contributions of its graduates to humanity? Or should the university define its interests more narrowly, in terms of institutional prestige, social cachet and financial wealth? Below are more excerpts from ...
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• There is nothing new under the sun

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 509
  ... except that the Jews, unlike Asian Americans, made a fuss about it. About The Chosen : ... But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy. In The Chosen, the Berkeley sociologist Jerome Karabel lifts the veil on a century of admission and ...
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• A Poet Is… what Bob Dylan has to say.

  
  Another Lost Shark — Authority: 127
  Dylan is one of the most quoted artists of our time, and rightfully so. Just check out these nuggets of wisdom if you need any convincing: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. ...
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• Stacey Campfield in Senator Nacho Libre

  
  Liberadio(!) — Authority: 470
  Continuing a pattern of eccentric, irresponsible, and attention-seeking behavior that includes getting handcuffed and thrown out of an event for then-gubernatorial candidate Governor Bredesen, having alleged slumlord tendencies , and declaring he had “legislative immunity” from a lawsuit accusing him of ...
  2 weeks ago

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