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Eddie Thomas writes about those who forget history.

Michael Blowhard asks "Is Bush a conservative?"

Clay Shirky notes that people participate on-line for different reasons and with a different intensity than how they participate in real life, and suggests that the success of Howard Dean's Internet campaign blinded Dean's people to the impending failure of their real-life campaign. (UPDATE: Shirky adds further comments about the Dean campaign here.)

An alternate explanation for the crash of the Dean campaign: The active participation of my United States Representative.