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Robert Gates: Republicans’ grasp of national security is at a child’s level | The Guardian – h/t @AkhiPill

CK MacLeod January 27, 2016

An ex-CIA director who first joined the White House under Richard Nixon, Gates joked that if frontrunner...

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A Better Way To Do Campaign Finance Reform

Guest Authors February 21, 2012

~by Dan Miller Elias wrote a great post about campaign finance reform, and I think it raised some important...

Nothing’s ever certain except race and taxes. IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-6bbd42777eb1081b1ff565907daf69c7

Nothing’s ever certain except race and taxes.

Erik Kain November 2, 2009

Andrew Sullivan has this map posted at the Dish today, which he found via Open Left. What I...

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Rewriting the conservative narrative

Erik Kain October 26, 2009

“While I agree that it’s fairly pointless, as a tactical matter, for dissidents to attack the talk...

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all the president’s spies

Erik Kain April 25, 2009

John Judis would like to have more discussion about the possibility of ditching the CIA, or at...

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What the Iraq War Is and What it Isn’t

Erik Kain April 16, 2009

Let’s start with “isn’t” first: ________________________________________ It’s not a war just about spreading democracy. It’s not a...

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The Business of Conflict

Erik Kain April 7, 2009

“When conflict becomes a business, a nation’s business becomes conflict. When mighty industries are built on war,...

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This is good…

Erik Kain April 7, 2009

…but it seems like a lot of trade-offs rather than any real measure to slash the slush-fund...

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pillsy in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Every criticism of Republicans invites whataboutery For example, if you straightforwardly condemn Gr…
Jaybird on Pope Francis Dead at 88A much-needed skinny Pope after the previous fat one. Betting markets for the next Pope are open. Lu…
Jaybird on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?AI Not Kill Everyone Memes points out: In ONE year, the smartest AI jumped ***40 IQ points*** from 9…
InMD on Pope Francis Dead at 88I was very much saddened by the news of his passing this morning. Approaching the role as a servant,…
Jaybird in reply to pillsy on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Maybe stop defending the indefensible actions of the worst, least honest people alive because the op…