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    I have noticed a number of books recently about how slavery never really went away, and is still very much…
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    • This diary sounds just like what Miss Burke used to tell us back in High School Civics class in 1952.…
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    • Maybe not quite so simple. The judge will hold a hearing to determine whether prosecutorial misconduct was intentional, and if…
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    • How much of this list is a plan, a program, canny politics, and how much is just blundering in the…
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    • shared sacrifice, equality, and shared responsibility... too defensive. Liberalism is generosity, outgoing, giving, Americans are naturally generous, except when they…
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    • Have any of you guys read "The Places In Between" by Rory Stewart ? It is a journal of his…
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    • Yesss !  And thanks for giving Jesse "Big Daddy" Unruh his quote back. Maybe the Left should spend more time…
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    • I know this is a lost cause, it is so thoroughly embedded in the folkways, but I think WC Fields,…
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    • Problems of actual governance are never going to be solved by reductive simplification. Philosophy used to do this, until Wittgenstein…
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    • Let's see now.  A clown with a firecracker in his shoe stimulated our wise securitizers to check out all our…
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    • I was born and raised in Southern Ohio, in a place i  call Dwindle City.  Somewhat like Lake Wobegon, but…
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    • Well, OK, I'm willing to "pardon your French', but should not the focus be more on the true representatives of…
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    • Disheartening, isn't it. Come rain, come snow, the status will be quo. Of course, I knew I would be disappointed…
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    • Good speech, the pulpit was used to good effect, to reframe the issues. I now see the public option as…
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    • Chief, it seems to me that your comment is Punishmentarianism stretched to the limit. Anyone who makes a mistake should…
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    • Ron Kessler was on The Daily Show last night, talking about the deficiencies of secret service protection, and was certainly…
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    • I was in Korea for 13 months, most of 1958, and we understood perfectly well that we were just there…
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    • I agree with SFHawkguy. While I would not personally not miss Harry, before we throw out this bath-water, I want…
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    • Not much has  changed since the Civil War. 19 April 1866, The Independent, pg. 4: But these states are not…
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    • Our new Undersecretary for Bank Rescues has just finished reading the results of the Bank Stress Tests, and is here…
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