Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
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Japan Syndrome
Posted on March 14, 2011
According to news reports, the latest earthquake pushed Japan thirteen feet closer to the United States. On an Earth that charts movement in millimeters, not yards, that is an amazing...
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Tsunami
Posted on March 12, 2011
I neglected to turn on the television this morning, and I read the paper oblivious to what was occurring on the other side of the earth. David Brooks wrote a...
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Democrats Launch Own Inquiry Into Extremists
Posted on March 11, 2011
(Washington DC) House Democrats, concerned that their performance in the King Hearings may expose them to charges of being needlessly and dangerously politically correct, have decided to launch their own...
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Buried in the News
Posted on March 10, 2011
The Space Shuttle Discovery completed its final mission yesterday and David Broder went to his final resting place. Somewhere in the future, some enterprising historian is going to write a...
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What To Do About Libya
Posted on March 8, 2011
The Romans twice ran Libya. The first time, they brought the Libyans a “Golden Age”. As Wikipedia put it: “As a Roman province, Libya was prosperous, and reached a golden...
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