Politics

Gordon Brown launches tv station

In Britain, Media, Politics on 8 August 2008 with no comments

Gordon Brown attemps an end-run on the media gatekeepers by launching his own TV station, Number10T.
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Atlanta suburb elects white Republican to city council! Trust me, it’s newsworthy.

In Atlanta, Local Government, Politics, Social Progress on 28 November 2007 with no comments

Doraville [map, official, wiki], a suburb of Atlanta, has elected Brian Bates to city council. He meets three of the criteria for being a suburban politician in our state: he’s 1) white, 2) male, and 3) a Republican.
He’s also gay.
I’ve suspected real social progress would occur in Atlanta’s suburbs over the next decade, I just [...]

Why conservatives should heart NYC, too.

In New York, Philosophy, Politics, Rome, Urbanism on 16 November 2007 with 2 comments

I recommend reading this short essay imploring conservatives to care about cities.
“In Rome,” wrote the philosopher George Santayana, who spent his final years in the Eternal City, “I feel nearer to my own past, and to the whole past and future of the world, than I should in any cemetery or in any museum of [...]