Carnival of Political Punditry – May 25, 2008
Welcome to the May 25, 2008 edition of Carnival of Political Punditry. I won’t be doing any commenting this week because I am trying to get some of my own writing done and looking for ways to get more than 30 people a day to look at this blog. I’m guessing that I would get a bigger audience if I would tell everyone that Bush is Hitler, but I prefer to talk about things that make sense. Enjoy the carnival.
Mark Koester presents Daniel Kemmis’s Communitarianism: Towards the ‘Human Enterprise’ of Community and Community Building posted at The Mystic Atheist, saying, “This post critiques our individualist, liberal conception of self and community and, in turn, attempts to formulate a communitarian alternative of community as a shared activity.”
Ashok presents On Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: Liberty and Equality and a Few Notes on Vol. 1, Pt. 2, Chp. 5 posted at Rethink..
Current Events
Michael Bass presents The End of White Tyranny posted at Debt Prison, saying, “Though whites have the ability to create wonderful societies, we do not possess the cleverness to maintain them.”
SjP presents Sojourner’s Place posted at Sojourner’s Place, saying, “Darfur, China, and should Bush Go.”
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Dear Supreme Sacrificer posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.
Evelyn Hunter presents My Country Lied To Me! posted at Homespun Honolulu, saying, “I put this under Current Events and because, although it has been going on for some time, it still continues today.”
Edmund Ross presents So what are you going to do when gas hits $12/gallon? posted at Political Bull.
Sammy Benoit presents Where in the World is Muhammad al-Dura? posted at YID With LID.
Economy
NotYourDaddy presents How Do You Repeal a Law of Nature? posted at Government is not your Daddy., saying, “The law of supply and demand is not something economists invented; it’s an observation of the way a natural law applies to the principles of economics.”
Immigration and the Border
NotYourDaddy presents Illegal Immigration: A Supply Side Solution posted at Government is not your Daddy., saying, “To arrive at a sound solution to a problem, we need to analyze its root causes. Addressing the causes of a problem ultimately eliminates (or significantly reduces) the problem; addressing the effects is a never-ending battle. As long as the underlying causes remain, the problem will keep reasserting itself, circumventing whatever solutions are implemented.”
Presidential Candidates and Campaign
The Prudent Babbler presents Democrats: Rocky Mountain Apocalypse posted at Prudent Babbling.com, saying, “Will this be a fight to the finish at the podium on the floor of the Democratic Convention? Will Hillary and Obama go toe-to-toe on nation-wide television? Or are we about to see a highly improbable event take place which Nassism Nicholas Taled describes as a “Black Swan” in his New York Times Bestseller “The Black Swan-The Impact of the Highly Improbable”.”
Leslie Carbone presents Tennessee GOP: Reason to be Proud posted at Leslie Carbone.
Neil Benson presents President Bush’s History of Appeasement posted at SENSE AND NONSENSE, saying, “The real story of where President Bush stands on appeasement.”
SjP presents i’m sorry ~~ but i just can’t stop laughing! posted at Sojourner’s Place, saying, “Clinton’s winning coalition is broader than Obama’s. Anyone can see that…right?”
John Phillips presents Presidential Politics and Gender posted at The Word On Employment Law, saying, “The role of gender in the campaign and how it relates to the workplace”
Eli presents Hillary Should Denounce Racism in Presidential Choice posted at We Op-Ed.
Geoffrey presents Military Credentials and the Presidency posted at We Op-Ed.
Sammy Benoit presents Obama’s Urges Don’t Believe My Supporters posted at YID With LID.
Ian Welsh presents Cutting Through Primary and Election Crap posted at The Agonist, saying, “Ten ways that Obama will lose to McCain.”
NotYourDaddy presents Goldilocks Doesn’t Vote posted at Government is not your Daddy., saying, “I picture McCain climbing a tree, reaching for an apple on the outermost branch, while the trunk bends and groans and finally splinters beneath the awkward distribution of weight. That’s what’s happening to the entire Republican Party. If it leans any further to the left, it’s going split its core right down the middle.”
War on Terror
Jason Hughey presents Part 1: The Truth Behind Kosovo – Introduction posted at Logical Consistency, saying, “A lot hangs in the balance when government policy ignores hard questions and/or answers them with lies. It’s time to revisit the United States involvement in the 1999 Kosovo intervention and find out what really happened.”
Shan Siddiqi presents The President pretends to care posted at Globally Rational, saying, “This is what we get when we vote for a President who doesn’t know anything about world issues… please don’t do the same thing again this November.”
Actual Politics presents Indepth Look at Hugo Chaves Pt – 1 posted at Actual Politics, saying, “A little history on Hugo Chaves”
Madeleine Begun Kane presents War, Inc. Interruptus posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.
NotYourDaddy presents When is a Lie Not a Lie? posted at Government is not your Daddy., saying, “As history unfolds, it’s starting to look like, not only did Bush not lie, neither was he mistaken. There is new evidence that Iraq did, in fact, have WMDs, which it was systematically transferring to Syria all the while it was stalling the U.N. inspectors.”
Michael Snyder presents How Far Do We Take This “War On Terror”? posted at Shattered Paradigm.
Environment
Michael Snyder presents Radical Depopulation Of The Earth – The Solution To Mankind’s Problems? posted at Shattered Paradigm.
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- May 25th
Re: 30 people a day.
If it weren’t for the fact Google picked up on my poetry entries, I wouldn’t get 100-200 hits a day, and that’s from people typing in “free Shakespeare essay.” – My audience has been a bunch of terrible ungrateful [redacted], and it’s all thanks to Google. -
I notice this page was stumbled. I just stumbled it myself, but stumbleupon is full of spammers. Reddit actually gets a few of my entries some hits, Digg is a place I had an audience once but still managed to get drowned out. Propeller is full of crazy Leftists, as is Clipmarks.
The services I recommend to you:
1. Mahalo Follow – if you’ve got an entry or two on something specific, try to get it in their search listings. This might be essential long term
2. Free Republic – I despise the commentators there. I mean, if those people ever showed up in a classroom of mine I hope I’d have a taser on hand, or a cattle prod. They’re coming close to giving Kos a run for his money. Still, if you post articles there, it’ll get attention. Good attention? Lemme put it this way: if you’re not convinced the world is fallen…
3. Myspace – Add me, I’m http://myspace.com/in_excelsis – I’m using the forums to try and find active myspacers, add them to friends, and slowly build up the fan base that way. The sheer number of accounts on myspace makes it invaluable – if you go to the forums, there are plenty with anywhere from 5-20 thousand registered users.
Hope that helps.
thanks for the advice.
Right now I am using digg, stumble, and newsvine. I do get some hits from digg, but most of the people on there are very childish and only want to see articles that do the Bush-Hitler thing.
Free Republic is a strange sort, you may be right on the Kos comparison.
Thank you, New Pundit, for including everyone.
I understand your need to look for more visitors, trust me on that one! Enjoying the articles and trying to leave comments where I can.
You don’t give yourself enough credit, my friend. I “Stumbled” over you this morning and I hope that at least a few more people will find you!
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