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Empty chairs at the Inauguration
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 20 at 2:46:00 pm | 3 commentsToday, amid the justifiable joy at the true milestone we mark, I want to spend a little time noting the absence in DC of people who were prevented from seeing this day. Each of them is owed a place on the dais.
A woefully incomplete list:
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On centrism
By Chris Clarke on 2008 11 06 at 4:45:33 pm | 0 commentsLast night, as some in the blog wannabe-pundit world blamed African-American voters for the passage of California’s Proposition 8, a couple of African-American guys struck up a conversation with me in front of CNN’s Los Angeles headquarters on
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Saul Alinsky wins election
By Chris Clarke on 2008 11 05 at 3:54:37 pm | 0 commentsRegardless of how one feels about the candidate - I myself am shelving my cynicism about centrism, for a couple of days, out of respect for the historical milestone we witness this week - the election was a stunning affirmation of the power of a
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