Month: April 2010

Stupid Journalism

Daniel Indiviglio of The Atlantic asks Did Porn Cause the Financial Crisis? and then asks us not to consider it a joke question. Sorry, it is a joke question. I don’t care how much porn people at the SEC were watching at...

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Serious Questions

So, who do want to see Obama nominate to the Supreme Court? Someone conventional? A particular judge? A governor or former senator? Someone from academia or the business world? I’m kind of hoping it is someone I’ve...

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P.J. O’Rourke’s Insecure Mind

Back during the transition and early days of the new administration, when Obama was announcing the names and qualifications of his first nominees, I complained that he seemed to restrict his choices to people who had graduated...

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Free the Sorcerer

From the New York Times: Published: April 24, 1692 April 24, 2010 SALEM, MASS. CAIRO — The sorcerer still has his head. But for how long? For more than two years, Ali Hussain Sibat of Lebanon has been held in a prison in Saudi...

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Lindsey Graham Pulls the Climate Football Away

No one could have predicted that Lindsey Graham would play Lucy to John Kerry’s Charlie Brown. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) abandoned his effort to push a climate and energy bill Saturday, saying he would continue only...

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