David Weisman

Hometown: Freeport, NY
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  • Commented States in a discussion on Are We Moving Ahead -- or Heading Back? (Blog entry) | October 15, 2008 - 6:50pm
  • Rated Ratpucking (Blog entry) | October 9, 2008 - 5:47pm
  • Shared Conservative newpaper republishes mistake (Fast Fact)
    April 13, 2008 - 11:40pm

    James Lyons of the Washington Times makes the same mistake that was found in a previous commentary again.

  • Shared How to Rig an Election (Progressive Opinion)
    April 10, 2008 - 12:47pm

    Another take on Allen Raymond's new book on his Republican campaign work before he went to jail.

  • Rated How to Win Like a Republican (2) (Blog entry) | April 10, 2008 - 12:43pm
  • Rated One in Ten (Progressive Opinion) | March 7, 2008 - 5:49pm
  • Shared A Recent Falsehood in the Washington Times (Progressive Opinion)
    March 6, 2008 - 2:08am

    Sometimes the most dangerous falsehoods are ones believed by the people spreading them. As far as I know, the author of the Washington Times editorial referenced here is just repeating what he has heard from other conservatives.

  • Shared Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Progressive Opinion)
    March 6, 2008 - 1:10am

    This is a Buzzflash.com book review of a book by Ha-joon Chang, the reviewer Thom Hartmann is knowledgable about the subject as well. The book is about how industrial powers have actually grown, as opposed to the mainsteam economic theories about how they should.

  • Rated Learning from the Cultural Conservatives, Part II: Talking Up The Worldview (Blog entry) | March 5, 2008 - 6:17pm
  • Published It takes two to pretend they didn't tango (Blog entry)
    March 1, 2008 - 7:11pm

    I've been reading Rick Perlstein on the forgotten movement of the sixties, both online and in Before The Storm. When I got over the idea that conservatives in the sixties were merely a counterrevolutionan rather than a full fledged movement, I began to think about something else. We can easily understand why liberals would give short shrift to the idea of such a movement.