Connie Seré created Con's Stance in May of 2007 with a goal of critically examining current events for their historical value and pertinence to the members of her generation — Generation Y.
She is a third-year student at the University of Texas at Austin where she majors in Government and minors in Middle Eastern Studies. She lives in Austin with her fat cat, Hank.
Connie can be reached at constance.sere@gmail.com.
Constance Sere's blog is Con's Stance.
I suppose one explanation for this might be that people are more interested in gaffes than in policy wonkery. But that can’t be it. After all, McCain made a much more serious gaffe in his speech yesterday, but very few people noticed it.
Because it feels like a waste of time. Sometimes I wonder if what I spend energy caring about even matters. ‘It’s not the first time I made a misstatement that was mangled up, and it won’t be the last,’ said Obama, with refreshing candor. But candor is dangerous in a national campaign, what with network newsniks […]
Andrew Sullivan fleshes it out: I certainly find it hard to understand the rise of Islamism without understanding the abject political and economic failure of many Arab states to respond to the genuine desires and needs of their citizens. In fact, I thought this link between the bitterness created by unrepresentative political institutions, economic failure and […]
So, with the obligatory, yes, he could have worded it better, do I think it was offensive and condescending? No. I don’t. Do I think it can be spun into something offensive and condescending? Sure. That was obvious right off the bat. And how effective will it be against him or damaging to him? […]
And we’re still watching Britney Spears’ every move like hawks: The simple explanation for why we shun the war is that it has gone so badly. But another answer was provided in the hearings by Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, one of the growing number of Republican lawmakers who no longer bothers to hide his exasperation. […]
What is it, The New Republic ponders: Are young conservative writers more heterodox than their older peers? At least superficially, the answer seems like yes: If you compare the right-wing twentysomethings flitting around Washington D.C. to their elders in the world of magazines and think tanks, the younger set seems to include many fewer writers whose ideas fit […]
It seems that every time Barack says something truthful or insightful people get upset. I guess that’s how it works. Maybe he should be a psychologist instead of president. And maybe a good psychologist would make a good president.
The New York Times reports, […]
Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers who would be sent back to the front again and again under plans that call for troop numbers to be sustained at high levels in Iraq for this year and beyond.
Among combat troops sent to Iraq for the third or fourth time, more than one in four […]
Above black and white, it’s articulate, it’s real, it’s honest. Beautifully done: The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through – a part of our union that we have […]
“It’s just very important for us to make sure that conservatives and pro-life, pro-family people who want strong protection at the borders, who really do want to see this country have a policy that reflects, I think, the conservative values not just in Texas but America — that we have that for the whole Republican […]
