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Simon Johnson’s… IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-44925486531_c5ecc1a80e_o

Simon Johnson’s…

Erik Kain May 4, 2009
…Quiet Coup, over at the Atlantic, is excellent.  I read the print version because I can’t read...
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Response o’ the Day to the Line o’ the Day

Chris Dierkes May 4, 2009
Jaybird in response to greginak’s comment: A well regulated Argument, being necessary to the security of a...
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Poulos on Taylor on Re-Structured University Education

Chris Dierkes May 4, 2009
James Poulos points to this Mark C. Taylor op-ed in the NyTimes on ending the university as...
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Line o’ the Day

Chris Dierkes May 4, 2009
“I’m all for control of analogies. They are like guns, they should be legal but with strict...
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Hate Crimes (III)

Will May 4, 2009
Andrew Breitbart takes a flying leap over the shark with his latest bit of commentary (emphasis mine):
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State of Print

Erik Kain May 4, 2009
Resting at the heart of  State of Play (2009) is not so much the personal relationships of...
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Look Back in Anger

Will May 3, 2009
I suspect the debate over torture, atomic weaponry, and morality is rapidly reaching the point of diminishing...
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Hate Crimes (II)

Will May 3, 2009
National Review’s David Freddoso raised a few smart objections to pending hate crimes legislation:
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Sunday Celebrity Spotting Roundup

Chris Dierkes May 3, 2009
Vancouver where I live is known is kind of the Canadian Hollywood as it were.  Lots of...
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Dirty, dirty hands.

William Brafford May 3, 2009
“He orders the man tortured, convinced that he must do so for the sake of the people...
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I don’t own a tv…

Erik Kain May 2, 2009
…but I do own a computer, and these days you can do almost anything on a computer,...
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Down with the ship….

Erik Kain May 2, 2009
One thing that’s always funny to me about judicial nominees and the whole messy, partisan process of...
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2M4M

Erik Kain May 2, 2009
Via Cascadian in the comments:
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The New Face of Empire

Erik Kain May 1, 2009
Then again, simply because the United States ceased to be a ‘real’ republic does not mean that...
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a quote for the afternoon

Erik Kain May 1, 2009
“I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling...
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Not Knowing the Meaning of Words: Magic Negro Edition

Chris Dierkes May 1, 2009
Via HuffPost: CALLER: It’s just like the LA Times said last year, or two years ago —...
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One way forward for the West Bank

Guest Authors May 1, 2009
by max socol In the bowels of ED Kain’s most recent Israel prophecy, there’s a (pleasantly civil)...
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quote for the morning

Erik Kain May 1, 2009
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. ....
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A great headline…

William Brafford May 1, 2009
A.O. Scott’s review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine is headlined, “I, Mutant, Red in Face and Claw,” which...
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War Crimes, Then and Now

Will April 30, 2009
In the course of a very thorough fisking of Michael Goldfarb’s latest attempt to justify torture, Julian...
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