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re:ratiocination: mexican drug insurgency edition IFRL-TLC-Scenery-34594058095_1e6a7eb443_o

Freddie January 20, 2009

C. Augustin Dierkes post on the Mexican drug war to me highlighted one of the many downsides...

Chris Dierkes January 20, 2009

My namesake, the great detective C. Auguste Dupin, who was himself an extraordinary gentlemen (I a member...

our changing media and the future for Israel IFRL-NaPP-Space-14761953564_b243b392a2_k

Freddie January 20, 2009

Although I richly deserve a reputation as something of a polemicist, I’d like to think that I...

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David TC in reply to DensityDuck on The Department of Good Things…which raises the immediate question of “why is this something the Department of Education is expect…
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