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    0 starsdrew_s | Shared With: Everyone - 7 days ago | politics, michigan, lansing, Art IV, section 4
    Web site: State Dems behind sweeping ballot effort - Crain's Detroit Business

    This is going to be a very interesting fight. It might be telling that this is the worst these opponents can say of the proposal. It would also mean across-the-board pay cuts for state judges, which could hurt quality.

    Quoted: "The most important features of the scheme are the redistricting commission and the removal of two Republicans from the Michigan Supreme Court. Nearly everything else in the proposal seems to be calculated to make the entire package more attractive to voters," he added.

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    0 starsdrew_s | Shared With: Everyone - 14 days ago | calvin college, politics, religion, election, michigan, grand rapids, education
    Faculty profile: Corwin Smidt

    I caught him and Prof. Penning on CSPAN the other day too. Nice to see him getting big attention after being at the forefront of research in this area for so long. He's also a very cool guy, and is no doubt enjoying all this.

    Quoted: Recently, reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Christianity Today, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today have sought the opinion of Calvin professor of political science and director of the Paul B. Henry Institute, Corwin Smidt.

    Quoted: For the first time since the New Deal, the percentage of mainline Protestants who identify as Democrats is the greater than the percentage who identify as Republicans.

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    0 starsdrew_s | Shared With: Everyone - May 01 2008 | canada - us relations, economics, foreign policy, news, politics, canada, michigan, detroit
    Strict new border policies are turning Canada into a foreign country | Salon News

    This is an issue near and dear to my heart, and there are lots of good points in this article. There are also lots of unsupported conclusions though, and the author ignores the fact that our trade relationship is, overall, wildly successful for both parties.

    Perhaps the reason Windsor isn't doing well compared to 1999 is that the Loonie is no longer a joke and Detroit built casinos of its own. In which smoking is allowed. And our own state, particularly the SE region, is falling apart and so we have less to spend and we consciously choose to spend it here.

    There are perfectly good reasons for enhanced security that can and will help both nations in the long run.

    Quoted: Strict new border policies are turning Canada into a foreign country. Is this any way to treat our neighbors?

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    0 starsdrew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 26 2008 | obama, politics, funny, is this over yet?
    Barack Obama Is So Weird

    Are these photo-shopped? I don't think so. Nothing like gas prices to make politicians act silly. Still got his back, but this is a little embarrassing.

    Quoted: Obama is such a snob about motorcars that he didn't know the car had to BE THERE for him to fill it up. He has never driven a car in his life. He rides a velvet-seated flying pineapple that runs on Dom Perignon champagne fuel.

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    0 starsdrew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 23 2008 | obama, famous dotters, politics, faith, calvin college
    Calvin College - Spark - Spring 2008 - John Zwier

    We know him too! Congrats, John. They did a very nice job with this.

    Quoted: Hard at work in the national campaign headquarters of Barack Obama, John Zwier '05 still believes God is not a Republican—or a Democrat.

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    0 starsdrew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 09 2008 | liberia, africa, politics, news, race, african politics
    In Search of a Lost Africa - Helene Cooper - Africa - Liberia - New York Times

    I haven't made it all the way through this yet. What I've read so far is great. Dad, you might want to pass it along to Mom (and Leah, since she doesn't appear to spend much time here anymore) (both of whom are also returning to Liberia after a long time away).

    Quoted: I was going back, finally doing something I should have done a thousand different times since that night, May 16, 1980, when my mother, my younger sister, Marlene, and I got on a Pan Am flight at Robertsfield and fled the place that my great-great-great-great-grandfather helped found.

    Quoted: Because of him, I would not grow up, 150 years later, as an American black girl, burdened by racial stereotypes about welfare queens. Nor would I have to deal with the weights of a sub-Saharan African girl, with a life expectancy of about 40 years, yanked out of school at 11 to fetch water and cook over a coal pot and rear children barely younger than herself.

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    0 starsdrew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 03 2008 | obama, news, politics
    Hillary’s Wrong Numbers: Obama Polls Up, Clinton Funds Down -- New York Magazine

    Let's hope Pennsylvania is close and that Hillary withdraws with grace. If she does, she might just end up on the ticket after all.

    Quoted: Fifty-one percent negatives among white voters, no cash — and now a lead in Pennsylvania that has dwindled to five points: They don’t come any more stalwart than Hillary Clinton, but the next three weeks are going to be one long death march.

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    0 starsdrew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 28 2008 | politics, race, news, barack obama
    Rice hits U.S. 'birth defect' - - The Washington Times

    Quoted: But she spoke forcefully on the subject, citing personal and family experience to illustrate "a paradox and contradiction in this country," which "we still haven't resolved."

    I'm not one to cite the Wash. Times, but it was their interview and the headline definitely caught my attention.

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    0 starsdrew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 24 2008 | government, history, the american presidency, politics
    John Adams: Inaugural Address

    Liz and I are totally hooked on HBO's John Adams miniseries. This is a great site for satisfying curiosity about his and other presidencies.

    Quoted: The American Presidency Project contains the most comprehensive collection of resources pertaining to the study of the President of the United States. Compiled by John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California.

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    0 starsdrew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 28 2008 | media, politics, dynasties, famous kids, news
    The Evolution of Chelsea Clinton -- New York Magazine

    Chelsea: The Clinton Everyone at Work Can Agree On.

    Quoted: In the past few weeks, Chelsea has become perhaps her mother’s most effective and mistake-free surrogate, sometimes even drawing bigger crowds than her father, whose ability to attract attention, sometimes for the wrong reasons, is decidedly a mixed blessing for his wife.

    Quoted: “Another person might have gone through the same things and come out extraordinarily bitter,” says Clinton loyalist Paul Begala. “Does she strike you as a woman who got bitter or got better?”

    I really liked this story. It's hard to know whether all the happy childhood stories are true, but her dedication to her parents is obvious.

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