Time for a Litmus Test -- or Three

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Friday July 01, 2005 · 9:37 AM PDT

2005/07/01 · 09:37

[Cross-posted at The Broad View]

Sandra Day O'Connor has resigned as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. And as we gear up for the confirmation hearing for her successor, let's steel spines and confront the absolute necessity for a litmus test or three.

The first, of course, is Roe v. Wade. That's been the subtext of every confirmation hearing in recent memory. Time to make it text, period.

Then there is the slipperier but equally crucial test of the nominee's stance on the wall between church and state. Read More

An Invitation to Participate in the Framing of the Future

Ellen Dana Nagler

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Tuesday January 18, 2005 · 1:24 PM PST

2005/01/18 · 13:24

As of this morning, The Principles Project is officially online. It is an ambitious undertaking -- nothing less than the creation of a constitution for progressives. And the mechanism for producing it is an Internet Constitutional Convention -- with all of us as delegates -- working through a series of drafts to refine the philosophy and language.

The Project is supported by a strong core of progressive organizations: 2020 Democrats, 21st Century Democrats, the Rockridge Institute, Cosmopolity and others. The steering committee has paid me the great compliment of inviting me to help moderate the discussions.

Please read the "formal" invitation to participate from Jean Paul Rollert, Chair of the project. It's below. Then forward the information to your various lists, and plunge right in! Read More

Do you blog in your jammies?

Ellen Dana Nagler

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Wednesday December 22, 2004 · 10:51 AM PST

2004/12/22 · 10:51

TIME Magazine says we blog in our jammies. (It also says we make money. Hah!) Newsweek says we blog in our jammies.

Once again we must fact-check the Mainstream Media.

Take the poll, please, so we can confirm to our MSM brethren the true state of dress in the blogosphere.

(Though Shakespeare told us that "brevity is the soul of wit," Blaise Pascal famously said, "I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter," and Strunk & White add that "when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus brevity is a by-product of vigour" -- in spite of these words of the masters, dKos insists on a minimum of 300 characters for a diary entry, text of poll doesn't count, and I've had to add this thoroughly irrelevant paragraph in order to be able to post.)

Stirling Newberry's diary of today's date

Ellen Dana Nagler

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Tuesday May 04, 2004 · 10:24 AM PDT

2004/05/04 · 10:24

"Howard Dean Goes to War" http://stirling-newberry.dailykos.com/ is essential reading.

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