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I got the Kindle. It looks terrific.
*I am not complaining* but want to mention that ALEC seems to be one outcome of a process possibly traceable to Lewis Powell's memo of 1971, credited with 1/
sparking an era of corporate judicial activism. Mentioned in bibliography but not in text.
Good opening!--
“Pssst . . . Wanna Buy a Law?” teased the normally staid trade publication Bloomberg Businessweek in 2011 .2/
... [on how] a relatively unknown group, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), could turn one bill idea from a business into “many, many, many laws” in exchange for hefty membership dues. “Corporations drop bills off at one end,” concluded the journalists, “and 3/
they come out the other, stamped with the imprimatur of a non-profit, ‘non-partisan’ group of state legislators.”

Some may gripe that this text relies too little on Jane Mayer's *Dark Money.* But Hertel-Fernandez' research (w Skocpol) *came first* 4/
and Mayer had used and cited *it.*
Both books seem quite valuable.
On the Powell Memo: it is quite a document. Mayer does discuss it. One study among many: repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewconten… . 5/
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The Manichean threat of "authoritarian" regimes has roots in FDR's "No end save victory," then in the Truman Doctrine: "Truman ... hailed the US and its unnamed adversary into stylized roles, one democratic and free, the other authoritarian and coercive. Greece & Turkey 1/
were lacking in agency; they were passive, acted-upon ... victims of predation, prospective beneficiaries of US protection..." US and its rival not nation-states, "but embodiments of larger historical forces, 'ways of life' that acted through and upon them." RK uses "way of 2/
life" 10x in this book.
FDR was right. Kennan regretted Truman's strident binarism. But these white-hat black-hat formulations remain persuasive if misleading. Marusic's rev is worthwhile; also Ronald Krebs, Narrative and the Making of US Nat'l Security, my source above. 3/
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Dan Tompkins
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Pleiku: as news comes in from Hormuz, worth recalling:
Bundy later acknowledged that Pleikus were like ‘streetcars’. He could count on repeated Viet Cong attacks to provide him with the pretext he needed at the opportune moment to sell escalation to the president.
and 1/
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it might have been [South Korea's] Paek and his merry men attacking … It’s been said they attacked and NK responded.” Peach went on to say that he didn’t think this version held much water…. There is no evidence to back up the North’s claim that the South launched a 3/
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Dan Tompkins
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Here is a further thought on this book, which the editors may well have covered -- I have not read through it yet -- but that I think merits attention.
The selection of texts is crucial, since it establishes the "world" the coders are left to analyze. One example of POTENTIAL 1/
risk is revealed by some current discussions over whether USA is a "democracy" or "republic." People (often with their own agendas) who insist on the latter. And Madison certainly was influential in cementing that notion.
But now comes Matthew Rainbow Hale, Journal of 2/
History (March 2017), who uses new databases to access newspapers from 1790-1800: "Regenerating the World: The French Revolution, Civic Festivals, and the Forging of Modern American Democracy, 1793–1795." Tea Party et al "fail to understand," he says, "to understand how a 3/
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Iowa voters! The Iowa House has passed Joint Resolution 8 calling for an Article V Convention of States to amend the US Constitution-as desired by #ALEC & #Kochs! The senate will vote ANY DAY! Tell ur state senators 2 vote NO! Contact info & more below #NoConCon #KochBrothers 1/
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