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Acting Like You Mean It: Show Your Work IFRL-NaPP-Asia-01581v

Acting Like You Mean It: Show Your Work

Mark of New Jersey June 18, 2009
To a certain extent, I think Freddie’s being too harsh on Reihan in this post.  But at...
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on healthcare IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-doors-1767562_1280

on healthcare

Erik Kain June 18, 2009
I think the one thing that free-market health care advocates have yet to illustrate is, as Freddie...
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support for the VAT with caveats

Freddie June 18, 2009
Health care reform is capable of whittling out some inefficiencies and could, in the long run, save...
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Will the Real Conservatives Please Stay Where You Are? IFRL-TLC-Scenery-val-vesa-159846-unsplash

Will the Real Conservatives Please Stay Where You Are?

Chris Dierkes June 17, 2009
Davey over at Theopolitical has a very sharp post up analyzing the epic (can I call it...
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Let Me Love– Til Death Do Us Part IFRL-NaPP-Asia-rawpixel-id-426271

Let Me Love– Til Death Do Us Part

Freddie June 17, 2009
So I wrote this piece last year for Culture11. I wanted to link to it in response...
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why are we asking for health care reform?

Freddie June 17, 2009
Reading Reihan’s post on the costs of health care reform today gave me what has become a...
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Same old, same old Neocons IFRL-NaPP-Asia-rawpixel-id-426213

Same old, same old Neocons

Chris Dierkes June 17, 2009
A reader writes Andrew: In their desire for Ahmadinejad to succeed, today’s neocons are in complete opposition...
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a quote for the afternoon

Erik Kain June 17, 2009
“If Nixon could go to China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, which was a hundred...
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The Comforts of Myth IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-nationalgallery.summer-264

The Comforts of Myth

Mark of New Jersey June 17, 2009
I wish that I had something worthwhile to say about Ta-Nahisi Coates’ reaction to completing McPherson’s “Battle...
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“the big lie” IFRL-NaPP-Retro-14342049131_fc60e02f34_b

“the big lie”

Erik Kain June 17, 2009
I wondered about this the other day.  While I commend Obama’s restraint and am glad that he...
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kindle v twitter

Erik Kain June 17, 2009
I suppose the difference for me between the adopting of these two technologies – Twitter and Kindle...
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talk radio for the kids IFRL-Plague-AngelOfDeath

talk radio for the kids

Erik Kain June 17, 2009
Conor revisits the talk-radio conundrum at his new Atlantic digs.  I was thinking about this the other...
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working outside

Erik Kain June 17, 2009
So something that’s been on my mind lately is just how much I loathe sitting at a...
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“breezy with freedom”

Erik Kain June 16, 2009
That’s how Joe Klein describes Iran – at least compared to the Soviet Union back in the...
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I’ve lost many books… IFRL-NaPP-Space-nasa-nightlife

I’ve lost many books…

Erik Kain June 16, 2009
…but never one that cost $400.  And usually I lost them by loaning them out.  May as...
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(Not) Disproving Public Choice IFRL-TLC-War-GAPD-tretyakov.the-fresh-cavalier-the-morning-after-of-an-official-who-has-received-his-first-state-order-147

(Not) Disproving Public Choice

Mark of New Jersey June 16, 2009
Last week, the Blogger Still Known As Publius wrote a nice piece arguing that the potential-to-likely passage...
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on the fly vs fly on the wall IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.rear-view-of-the-houses-at-schlobfreiheit

on the fly vs fly on the wall

Erik Kain June 16, 2009
Scott is right, of course.  The blogging community functions more like a sawed off shotgun than one...
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The Role of Shia Theology in The Revolt IFRL-NaPP-Asia-Japanwest-Carlyle

The Role of Shia Theology in The Revolt

Chris Dierkes June 16, 2009
Andrew writes: It seems clear that the protesters have shrewdly as well as sincerely adopted mass peaceful...
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a quote for a cloudy summer morning

Erik Kain June 16, 2009
“Moussavi passed through this system of ideological control; he’s no radical reformer. But what’s happened is that...
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don’t just do something, sit there IFRL-NaPP-Space-14761953564_b243b392a2_k

don’t just do something, sit there

Erik Kain June 16, 2009
Props on the title go to Eunomia commenter Grumpy Old Man who was commenting on the second...
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