Tom Sullivan
| Hometown: | Asheville, NC |
| Interests: | Take Back America, Progressive Vision, Revitalizing Democracy |
| Honors: | 5 |
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- August 17, 2008 - 8:18pm
The Market helps those who help themselves. The free-market faithful, upon hearing Its name, cross themselves, then help themselves to the public purse without fear of judgment for breaking the rules. They swept away the old ones and wrote their own, which they disregarded.
- Commented Warren's presentation in a discussion on New Signs Of A Middle-Class Collapse (Blog entry) | August 15, 2008 - 11:04am
- August 10, 2008 - 10:11pm
The trajectory of nascent political campaigns is not unlike that of indie rock bands once they get popular enough to attract the attentions of recording industry slicks. The price the big boys extract for their financial backing is creative control over the music. Caution sets in. Experimentation is out. Fans complain they sold out. Sound familiar?
- Commented Now is later in a discussion on Why We Don't Shoot Back (Blog entry) | August 7, 2008 - 8:29pm
- Commented Amen, Sara in a discussion on Why We Don't Shoot Back (Blog entry) | August 7, 2008 - 11:23am
- August 3, 2008 - 6:02pm
Don't you see how you're misreading me? I am not a victim. I used to be a victim, but now I'm not. Can't you see the difference?
- Commented Hell to pay in a discussion on Progressives: Stop Being Suckers (Blog entry) | July 21, 2008 - 11:19am
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- August 17, 2008 - 8:18pm
The Market helps those who help themselves. The free-market faithful, upon hearing Its name, cross themselves, then help themselves to the public purse without fear of judgment for breaking the rules. They swept away the old ones and wrote their own, which they disregarded.
- August 10, 2008 - 10:11pm
The trajectory of nascent political campaigns is not unlike that of indie rock bands once they get popular enough to attract the attentions of recording industry slicks. The price the big boys extract for their financial backing is creative control over the music. Caution sets in. Experimentation is out. Fans complain they sold out. Sound familiar?
- August 3, 2008 - 6:02pm
Don't you see how you're misreading me? I am not a victim. I used to be a victim, but now I'm not. Can't you see the difference?
- July 20, 2008 - 10:04pm
Part and parcel in the offshore/ANWR drilling debates are several under-discussed and unchallenged assumptions. Some were addressed in last week’s discussion of the oil crisis. Let me add to them.
Faulty assumption: Oil produced here stays here.
- July 15, 2008 - 10:40pm
Listening to Marketplace on Tuesday evening, the American echoes in two separate stories caught my attention. [audio]
- July 13, 2008 - 8:52pm
"This is one emergency we can't drill our way out of," conservative oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens says in his new TV ad promoting his Pickens Plan. The ad neatly eviscerates the rationale for drilling in ANWAR and off our coasts in just 60 seconds.
- July 8, 2008 - 10:37pm
[via Atrios] Bloomberg reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission found that credit-rating companies “violated internal procedures” and played fast and loose with conflict of interest guidelines, setting the scene for what came next.
- July 6, 2008 - 7:48pm
Media heads exploded all over America last week in response to Gen. Wesley Clark’s Jun 29 Face the Nation comments. TPM posted an excellent compilation of the pre-July 4th fireworks here.
- July 1, 2008 - 11:19am
Conservative spokesmen have been throwing hissy fits since Sunday, when Gen.
- June 25, 2008 - 8:00pm
The power of identity politics is underappreciated by technocrats and policy wonks on the left. Among the biggest pitfalls we face is becoming tone deaf to the very people we represent. Two recent experiences highlight the problem.
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- Commented Warren's presentation in a discussion on New Signs Of A Middle-Class Collapse (Blog entry) | August 15, 2008 - 11:04am
- Commented Now is later in a discussion on Why We Don't Shoot Back (Blog entry) | August 7, 2008 - 8:29pm
- Commented Amen, Sara in a discussion on Why We Don't Shoot Back (Blog entry) | August 7, 2008 - 11:23am
- Commented Hell to pay in a discussion on Progressives: Stop Being Suckers (Blog entry) | July 21, 2008 - 11:19am
- Commented I love accepting conservative frames in a discussion on Lessig at Netroots Nation (Blog entry) | July 19, 2008 - 5:41pm
- Commented Now there's a talking point in a discussion on Wall Street Socialism (Blog entry) | July 16, 2008 - 11:20am
- Commented Perhaps you missed in a discussion on Leadership Secrets of George W. Bush (Blog entry) | July 14, 2008 - 3:53am
Broadcast
- Broadcast Learning from the Cultural Conservatives, Part II: Talking Up The Worldview (Blog entry) | March 5, 2008 - 6:18pm
