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The Power of the SCOTUS II: "Release the Kagan!"

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They were only there for 3 years. They got better afterwards.

It's the faculty you have to watch out for.
"The more learned you be, the more fit to serve Satan you will be" -John Cotton
 
Re: The Power of the SCOTUS II: "Release the Kagan!"

Some of us have a crush on Rachel Maddow. Her uncle, though, well, he would be pretty manly. :p
 
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WeWantMore said:
Kagan's full thesis, for any masochists out there:
http://www.redstate.com/erick/files/2010/05/kaganthesis.pdf

Many passages are "troubling", I'm sure this one may be among them
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reading only the conclusion since this is where the writer is most likely to romanticize... it appears she's rather sympathetic to the movement and the cause and what she says is certainly what I got of my sociology class.

Successful movements are 1) unified, 2) strident, 3) unrelenting. Labor and socialist (communist) groups thrive on this but are also fearful in this... elements that serve to disrupt these keys to success are feared and so they seek out those that threaten the movement. Also, these movements are based foremost on morality and power. Everybody wants to rule the world or save it and so you get conflict. This is also probably why labor had more success than the socialists as in those cases you had a goal of more stuff for people as opposed to flipping the governing order... in the latter case you then deal with the issue of getting credit and spots in the hierarchy.

What I take from Kagan in the page or two that i read is that she's sympathetic... for a Democrat that's understandable though its still unacceptable. The socialists are those pure exemplars which they strive to be. This is why Dems always are on a leftward lurch. I'd have to read more to see if she's full in line with those whom she writes about... and I have no desire for that.
 
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Mmmmmmmmmmmm, troubling. :p

I don't think she's a communist. I think she's a witch.

Kissinger wrote his thesis on Metternich. Obviously he was a secret Austrian. And who else was an Austrian? Hitler!
 
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Kepler said:
Mmmmmmmmmmmm, troubling. :p

I don't think she's a communist. I think she's a witch.

Kissinger wrote his thesis on Metternich. Obviously he was a secret Austrian. And who else was an Austrian? Hitler!
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The main flaw of the thesis appears to be the author's neglect of footnotes.

Clearly, each mention of socialism should have been asterisked, with the footnote "1, 2, 3, 4, which worldview do we abhor?"
 
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I'll trade snark for snark, but on the off chance that an actual discussion is to be had . . . can someone explain in a coherent sentence what about that thesis disqualifies the author from public service?

Or

How Eric Erickson is not in violation of U.S. Copyright Law for disseminating it on a commercial website?
 
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