Negative Space: politics
- Advise & Consent
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This Senatorial procedural could be straight from Dumas, and the themes hidden in the action are timeless.
- Anti-War Fliers
- If you want to end the war and shit you’re gonna have to sing louder! Anti-drug war and anti-gun control fliers and posters.
- Attack the policy, not the person
- You can save yourself a lot of embarrassment if you make it a point to debate the policies you dislike about a politician, rather than making fun of the politician’s looks, mannerisms, or family.
- Boss
- From 1955 to 1976, Richard J. Daley was the mayor of Chicago and the undisputed boss of Chicago politics. In 1971, reporter Mike Royko published a book about Daley’s rise to power and his firm grip on it. Boss is a fascinating story of the Chicago machine that still in some form exists today.
- Career politicians game the system in NY 23
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Take a look at those claw marks torn out of New York’s 23rd congressional district!
- Catch-22 government
- People who recognize that government is not the right tool to fix all problems, don’t run for political office. The kind of person who wants to be a politician is going to be the kind of person who wants to use government as a hammer on all nails.
- The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert
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Sad, autumnal reminiscences of power.
- East is East
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East to the East, and West to the West, and never the twain shall meet. Although, since Hotel Circle is in fact a loop you can go either way and as long as you don’t get impatient you’ll come back around to whichever direction you wish.
- Editorials
- Where I rant to the wall about politics. And sometimes the wall rants back.
- ElectedNet!
- As of November 5, 2020, ElectedNet! is no more.
- The endless campaign
- Should we have endless political campaigns? That’s the Barack Obama plan, but is it right for American politics?
- The Federalist Papers
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Politics/United States/Federalist Papers/
- For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko
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This collection of Royko columns is basically the leftovers from the previous collection, from the sixties on up, and worth getting if you’re a Royko fan.
- I voted against it when I voted for it
- When “yes” and “no” have no meaning, we need to reform how DC does business. They’re creating a system where incumbents don’t have to answer for their votes, because the same vote can mean different things depending on who you talk to.
- In Your Face
- How to break laws and proposed laws on the Internet without breaking a sweat (depending on what makes you sweat). I’m not sure how much of this is actually illegal any more, but I’m leaving it up as a reminder of a time when it was a big deal to initiate a transmission across a telecommunications network.
- The Library of the Future
- As near as I can tell, the “net of the future” is a Santa Claus that’s supposed to give us whatever we want whenever we want it. But can it really be that simple?
- Mimsy Were the Borogoves
- The official blog of Jerry Stratton.
- Nobody’s Banners and Marks
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Show your support for “Nobody” for President.
- Painfully thoughtless politics
- Televised debates discourage intelligent, thoughtful discussion in politics: a few seconds of thinking is ridiculed in DC.
- Political Police
- Diane Feinstein’s list of bureaucrats who oppose self defense.
- Politically-Oriented Organizations and Groups
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Politics/Organizations/
- Politics
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Politics/
- The Powers That Be
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David Halberstam’s tome about the growth of media power is repetitive, burdensome, it circles itself like an overweight prizefighter attempting to gain the advantage of the mirror, but like the aging boxer is filled with anecdotal glory.
- Second look at Chance the gardener
- Is President Obama really a mentally-challenged private gardener who has never left his DC townhouse?
- Short-sighted supermajorities
- Some partisans are incredibly short-sighted. Will Thomas Geoghegan really be saying that supermajorities are unconstitutional when another party is in power? Does Geoghegan really want Republicans do be able to do whatever they want?
- Strange Bedfellows
- Politics makes for strange bedfellows, and virtual sex in defense of liberty is no vice...
- Strong Drink, Strong Drinkers
- High taxes on alcohol first created rebellion; when rebellion ended, the black market began.
- Take the Congressional Drug Test!
- The Third Annual Drug Test for Members of Congress and Other Drug Fiends
- Throw Them All Out
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IPO nowadays stands for Invest in Politicians Often. Investing in politicians brings huge returns.
- Truly principled politicians don’t split the baby
- Too often in politics, we pretend that the principled act is to cut the baby in half. Governor Sarah Palin refuses that compromise. Her ambitions for success were for the success of reform in Alaska. She did what she needed to do to ensure that those reforms survive.
- United States Politics
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Politics/United States/
- Usenet
- Usenet is the AM radio of the information highway. When people talk about the discussion groups on the net, they’re usually talking about Usenet.
- The Walkerville Weekly Reader
- In the end times, one newspaper dared to call God to task for His hypocrisy. That newspaper was not us, we swear it. Not the eternal flames!
- World Chancelleries
- A collection of interviews in 1924 and 1925 with an aim toward world peace.
More Information
- Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do
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Peter McWilliams died in defense of freedom: this book, an incredibly well-written and well-researched book about “the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society” was probably his death warrant.
- Public Health Pot Shots
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How the CDC succumbed to the Gun ‘Epidemic’ (Reason Magazine, April 1997) Can bad science make good policy?
- Sarah Palin Announces Resignation as Governor, Part 2
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"There is where truly the worthy causes are in this world and that’s where our public resources should be, our public priority. We have time and resources spent on that, not on this superficial, wasteful, political bloodsport."
- The Ruling Class Hits Christine O’Donnell
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“The question for conservatives must always be: victory to what end? Codevilla illustrates in vivid fashion that for the Ruling Class the agenda is always about one thing: power. Power for itself. The prospect of a ‘Senator O’Donnell’ utterly terrifies the Delaware Ruling Class. Not to mention some Ruling Class members who’ve never set foot in the state. That, when you really get down to it, is what this election is really all about.”
- The Undocumented Mark Steyn•
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This is a great collection of Steyn’s writings from 1987 to 2014. Which means it references everything from books (Salman Rushdie, 1990) to politics (most of the book) and back to music (Stephen Foster’s Beautiful Dreamer, Steyn’s 2014 song of the week).
