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Ernest Partridge: Perception is Reality
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 10:58 am | Ernest Partridge
Yogi Berra said it best: “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” Predictions in politics rest upon two assumptions: (a) that present trends will continue into the future, and (b) that there will be no totally unexpected “surprises.” More >>
No Right Turn: An Image Of Torture
Friday, 17 February 2006, 1:01 pm | Ernest Partridge
Since last night's Dateline story, the new Abu Ghraib pictures have been doing the rounds. The Guardian has some here , and one of them immediately caught my eye: More >>
Ernest Partridge: Dear Howard Dean - Why Bother?
Friday, 17 February 2006, 1:00 pm | Ernest Partridge
Dear Dr. Dean, Every week I get dozens of solicitations from the Democratic National Committee, from the Democratic Senate and Congressional Campaign Committees, or from various Democratic candidates and office-holders, each of them asking for contributions. ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: The View (Of The US) From Abroad
Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 2:07 pm | Ernest Partridge
Except for a Naval Reserve cruise to Hawaii when I was nineteen, I had not, until my fifty-fifth year, stepped off the North American continent. More >>
Partridge: A Moral Philosophy for Progressives
Friday, 3 February 2006, 4:04 pm | Ernest Partridge
Shortly before he was elected Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger gave a homily at mass, in which he warned against Marxism, liberalism, atheism, agnosticism and relativism. “Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often ... More >>
"Evidence? We Don’t Want Your Stinkin' Evidence!"
Friday, 27 January 2006, 3:16 pm | Ernest Partridge
Like biologists with evolution and atmospheric scientists with global climate change, those who warn us that our elections have been stolen and will be stolen again must now be wondering, “just how much evidence must it take to make our case and to convince ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: The Gulliberal Problem
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 5:08 pm | Ernest Partridge
We’ve got trouble enough from our adversaries – but God save us from our friends! Surely one of the most amazing aspects of the election fraud issue is how so many otherwise smart liberals and progressives fail to see what is right in front of their ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: The Sleeping Giant Stirs
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 11:58 am | Ernest Partridge
“The Americans will always do the right thing” Winston Churchill once remarked, “after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.” The American public may be running out of alternatives. If so, the Bush Administration and the Republicans have reason to be ... More >>
Bird Flu Is Real – And You’re On Your Own
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 12:09 am | Ernest Partridge
Several leftish bloggers have published their doubts that the alleged avian flu menace is anything more than another Bushevik distraction. – and just in time to draw our attention away from Plamegate and the "Scooter" Libby indictments. (See, ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: The Illusion of Normality
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 4:04 pm | Ernest Partridge
Never in the 229 years of United States history has this government “of, by and for the people” been in greater peril. Not during the Civil War, not during the great depression, and not during the Second World War or the Cold War which followed. More >>
Ernest Partridge: While the Iron is Hot
Friday, 7 October 2005, 2:51 pm | Ernest Partridge
The Republican Party and the Bush Administration are reeling, enmeshed in corruption and failure, and the ideology of the regressive right is in retreat. The iron is hot – now is the time to strike. Unfortunately, it appears that the congressional ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: Who Lost New Orleans?
Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 4:16 pm | Ernest Partridge
“If some people are foolish enough to live below sea level, or in flood plains, or in earthquake zones, why should the rest of us bail them out when an expected disaster strikes?” More >>
E. Partridge: Randville Rawlsburg & New Orleans
Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:04 am | Ernest Partridge
In his second debate with Al Gore, candidate George Bush said “I think you can spend your money more wisely than the federal government can.” You think? Ask the survivors of the New Orleans Super Dome and convention center. More >>
Ernest Partridge: The Bombs in the Basement
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 4:23 pm | Ernest Partridge
By all outward appearances, the Busheviks and the Republicans have it made. They are, as the late Red Barber used to say, “sitting in the catbird seat.” They own the White House, the Congress, and soon the Federal Judiciary. More >>
Prices and Values
Monday, 15 August 2005, 11:05 am | Ernest Partridge
The economist . . . keeps the motivations of human beings pure, simple and hard-headed, and not messed up by such things as goodwill or moral sentiments... [T]here is ... something quite extraordinary in the fact that economics has in fact evolved in this ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: GOP Will Win In '06, Unless...
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 12:16 am | Ernest Partridge
I have frequently been accused of being hopelessly optimistic. Perhaps so: that’s what keeps me going. But now, for those who thrive on gloom and doom – it's your turn. More >>
Ernest Partridge: The Wayward Media
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 2:54 pm | Ernest Partridge
Its no secret: the former watchdogs of the American media have been transformed into Bush’s lapdogs. Whenever a potential White House or GOP scandal rears its ugly head, you can count on the news media to be otherwise engaged. More >>
Ernest Partridge: Hinges of History
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 1:04 pm | Ernest Partridge
History teaches us that “the course of human events” has many surprises, born of random chance and simple luck. History’s “winners” are those who are alert, flexible and creative in the face of these surprises. And that fact should lend comfort to ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: The Fall of the House of Bush
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 2:09 pm | Ernest Partridge
It is inevitable: sooner or later the Bush Regime will fall. Perhaps next month; perhaps after the end of the Jeb Bush Administration in 2016. The essential question is whether it will take down the rest of us with it. More >>
Ernest Partridge: What a Friend We Have in Jesus!
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 11:47 am | Ernest Partridge
Face it: progressive Americans are in a desperate struggle with religious-right fundamentalists. Moderate Christians and Republicans should join this struggle, for the survival of our democracy is at stake. More >>
