Month: April 2014

Warren & Springsteen Speak the Same Language

It’s a slow news day, so I thought I’d put a little Elizabeth Warren to music: “I’m worried the power in the financial services industry. I’m worried about the fact that cops were taken off the beat...

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Palin’s Cosmic Torment of John McCain

I have a theory that Sarah Palin has the intent to humiliate John McCain as often as possible. Maybe it’s because McCain wouldn’t let her give her own concession speech. Maybe it’s some of the things...

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Andrew McCarthy is Clueless About Crack

I wish the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy would stop to consider the implications of his own words. As he acknowledges, under The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, possession of 5 grams of crack or 500 grams of powder...

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Orwellian Piece By Ian Morris

Ian Morris, a professor of Classics at Stanford, argues in the Washington Post that, in the long run, wars make us safer and richer. Perhaps it is just too difficult to make such a counterintuitive argument within the limited...

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Obama’s Middle-East Policy In A Holding Pattern

. Obama brings curtain down on Mideast peace process (Haaretz) –  U.S. President Barack Obama started bringing down the curtain on the American peace initiative spearheaded by his secretary of state, John Kerry, since...

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