Month: March 2010

Hating Congress

I keep seeing polling that shows that people aren’t just dissatisfied with Congress (which is normal) but that they are angry with their own representatives (which is not). Yet, I don’t see a whole lot of vulnerable...

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It’s All Lady Gaga’s Fault

Bret Stephens takes disingenuousness to a new level today in the Wall Street Journal. Stephens examines some of the writings of Sayyid Qutb and concludes that Lady Gaga is much more of a security threat to the United States than...

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The US is a broken state. Bet on it.

Booman wrote recently in his post Shooting Yourself in the Foot: For decades conservatives have worked to see that blacks and latinos are undercounted in the Census. Now they are voluntarily disenfranchising themselves by...

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The US is a broken state. Bet on it.

Booman wrote recently in his post Shooting Yourself in the Foot: For decades conservatives have worked to see that blacks and latinos are undercounted in the Census. Now they are voluntarily disenfranchising themselves by...

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1,000 Words About Mauritius

Crossposted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Full disclosure: We had never heard of the Republic of Mauritius until the day we bought a ticket to go there. Our pathetic excuse: Lonely Planet...

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