A popquiz; identify the source of the included quotes. Here’s the punchline — they are all empty platitudes from the 2000 Republican Party Platform. “In light of the behavior and policy choices of the Bush Administration in the nearly four years since the platform was written, most are laughable.” —Thomas Schaller, The Gadflyer

The Gadflyer is

a new progressive Internet magazine. As the name implies, The Gadflyer will be provocative, critical, and iconoclastic. It will cover politics and public affairs from a fresh perspective, offering journalism, analysis, and commentary from a new generation of writers. The Gadflyer will bring together the brightest young progressive voices to provide unique and compelling stories that can be found nowhere else.

The Gadflyer will be unabashedly progressive, but not doctrinaire; pugnacious, but not shrill; lively and entertaining, but substantive. [thanks, dennis]