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Amanda's Hat-Trick

By clock on October 30, 2006.

Three-in-a-row for Amanda Marcotte, on what liberalism is, totally brilliant (can someone hire her, please, for an editorial page?):

The non-ideological era
Liberalism in ascendance
Who Counts?:

...what conservatives mean when they say they're for "small" government and liberals are for "big" government--those adjectives describe the size of the number of people that count as worthy of government attention, protection, and assistance in their view.

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