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• Ex-gov. emerges as next Ron Paul (Gary Johnson, New Mexico)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Former New Mexico Republican Gov. Gary Johnson is a teetotaling triathlete who looks the part of the laid-back Mountain West politician. But don’t let the jeans and black mock turtleneck hes sporting on his new website fool you: Johnson is starting to sound like a mad-as-hell populist with an eye cast on 2012 and the ...
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• Tonight: Anti-Banker Caroling!

  
  City Desk — Authority: 690
  Looking for some holiday cheer tonight? More to the point: Are you looking for some populist holiday cheer tonight? Then you might join a group of carolers tonight gathering at 7 p.m. outside the Bank of America branch at 1501 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, right across from the Treasury building. Instead of "Feliz Navidad," ...
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• Congressional Influence in Matters of… Spelling?

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 486
  This morning, I wrote a piece noting the dearth of Populist Caucus support for credit card reforms in H.R. 4300. Over at That’s My Congress (another web in which I participate) the Populist Caucus was criticized this morning for six months’ worth of misspelled names in its membership list. Guess which ...
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• The revolution will be on speakerphone

  
  ElementalMom — Authority: 116
  Check this out. Putting Obama on Hold, in a Hint of Who’s Boss President Obama didn’t exactly look thrilled as he stared at the Polycom speakerphone in front of him. “Well, I appreciate you guys calling in,” he began the meeting at the White House with Wall Street’s top brass on Monday. He was, of ...
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• Caucus Report: Are Credit Card Interest Limits Progressive, Populist, Both or Neither?

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 486
  In the 111th Congress, two caucuses exist to promote left-oriented economic legislation. The 27 members of the Congressional Populist Caucus in the House of Representatives lay out this economic agenda: Populist Caucus Platform: 1. Fighting for working families and the middle class by creating and retaining ...
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• Internz Runn Amuck in Offiss of Rep. Bruce Brayleigh

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 430
  The fate of the free world does not hang in the balance, and thank goodness for that. But is the Populist Caucus webpage good for more than a quick giggle? After six months of being named on Chair Bruce Braley’s webpage, Representatives “Steve Kagan,” “Jan Schakowski” and “John Yarmouth” can’t be too ...
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• Obama, don’t join the populist parade (Politico)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  Politico – In an Ideas piece, Feehery warns Obama against catering to populist rage on key issues. Go here to see the original: (Politico)"> (Politico)">Obama, don’t join the populist parade (Politico)
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• Is the Intellectual Right Dead?

  
  ThickCulture — Authority: 123
  William F. Buckley, Jr. 1925-2008, American intellectual conservative, Time magazine cover, 3 November 1967 This fall, a friend of mine in northern California reminded me of the Little Green Footballs blog, which had a reputation for covering Middle East issues [ 1 ].  Earlier this month, I remember seeing ...
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• God, Carbon Credits, Greenies, and a Lack of Faith (and Technology)

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 482
  PART I of two articles on “green”Is it even possible for a person to be a hard-core environmentalist and a strongly believing Christian or Jew at the same time?I don’t think... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• The god of "WRONG!"

  
  JudgeRight — Authority: 106
  Please forgive any sloppiness in this post, Ive only got an hour to punch this one out but I felt it too important to let pass unaddressed. Huggable and unholy god Judging gods. Ruth sent me an e-mail that warned of a book being promoted in our state run schools through the Scholastic Readership Program ...
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• Britain Imposes Massive Tax On Bonuses

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  The British government imposed a 50 percent tax on large year-end bonuses being paid to bankers. The ruling Labour Party is doing badly in the polls, and many observers see the tax as a populist move intended to attract votes.
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• Symbolic Representation

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 127
  Okay, when you’re feeling insecure you do turn to symbolic representation – some outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, as the sixteen century Anglican divine, Richard Hooker, once called the sacrament. But we live in a secular age, and the sacrament is a concept that seems so odd. Still you ...
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• Finding a Home for Populist Rage

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 127
  There’s this problem with Harvard – a fine school, often considered our finest university, in a lovely town. Heck, those of us who did our graduate work at Duke used to joke about how Duke likes to call itself the Harvard of the South – you know, not quite first rate, but pretty damned close. Duke was kind of ...
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• PopCap: “Stolen Valor”: Exposing Bogus Vets

  
  NSCBlog — Authority: 128
  (Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) “Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History,” is a book by B.G. “Jug” Burkett, a Dallas-area Vietnam veteran. Burkett was troubled by the public perception of Vietnam vets as “booze breathed, PTSD suffering homeless types.” ...
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• The Goldman Sachs Fan Club Speaks Out

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 477
  On Monday, I blogged about a Bloomberg piece in which Alice Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley turned Warren Buffett biographer and Bloomberg News columnist, wrote how senior personnel at Goldman Sachs have been buying firearms to “defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the ...
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• Regarding Commonsense Conservatism

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 127
  Being of the liberal persuasion, and thinking a few of those dreaded progressive thoughts, or just being a registered Democrat, you do get used to being told that you may have all those degrees and such, and know lots about a lot of things, but you really don’t have a lick of common sense. This is usually ...
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• High Noon for Goldman Sachs

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 578
  A couple of days ago, Alice Schroeder wrote a piece at Bloomberg about a friend of a friend who works at Goldman Sachs. Apparently the bankers are getting a little nervous about blowback from the working class. “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the ...
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• Democracy & Elitism 2: performance elitism vs privilege elitism, and why the difference matters

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 595
  Part two in a series. “Elite” hasn’t always been an epithet. In fact, if we consider what the dictionary has to say about it, it still signifies something potentially worthy. Potentially. For instance: e·lit·ism or é·lit·ism (-ltzm, -l-) n. 1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain ...
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• Wall Street Bankers Buying Guns?

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 477
  It seems Wall Street is taking precautions should the financial crisis turn real ugly. By acquiring guns. From Alice Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley turned author and Bloomberg News columnist, on the Bloomberg website today: “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a ...
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• Sarah Palin’s supporters (Video)

  
  Tad DeLay — Authority: 115
  If you liked their inflitration of Glenn Beck’s supporters at the D.C. Tea Party , you’ll love them asking light weight political questions to Palin fans: -courtesy of New Left Media I’m certainly no fan of Sarah Palin as a politician, but Palin-fever is a very interesting phenomenon to me.  She, ...
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