Month: November 2011

Civil War In Libya is Not Over

We have no clue how to deal with this, and we have even less inclination to try to deal with it. Maybe I just have a different definition of humanitarianism, but creating a country of disparate and hostile militias who have no...

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Why Bother, Ruth Marcus?

There is not a whole lot that I actually disagree with in this Ruth Marcus column, I just wonder why she bothered to write it. Her thesis is that the Obama reelection campaign is going to be mean and nasty, and that it will...

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Our Mineral Wealth for a Song

The House of Representatives today voted to pass the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act. Or, as the Miami Herald put it: House OKs massive copper-mining land swap in southeast Arizona. I don’t think the...

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Money Buys News Print

The New York Post and New York Daily News are hardly less alarmist about the Wall Street protests than Andrew Breitbart. And they are definitely no more honest. I’ve rarely seen such a stark example of the power of the...

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The Worst Political Party

In 2009, New Jersey voters went to the polls to elect a governor. Their choices were not promising. On the Republican side was a former U.S. Attorney who had done enough of Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzales’s bidding to avoid...

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