Month: April 2011

Casual Observation

No one could have predicted that giving the president of the American Enterprise Institute a billion words in the Washington Post would result in both a column on why rich people deserve to keep all their money and a colossal...

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The Year of Hating Women

I knew that I was seeing a ridiculous number of reports about state legislatures attacking abortion rights and introducing other crazy anti-women bills, but it’s good to see it collected in one place. So far, there have...

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Facts Don’t Matter

When he was just a fairly senior member of the House of Representatives it probably passed most people’s notice that Neil Abercrombie was actually friends with the president’s parents when they all were students at...

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John Bolton: Chicken Warrior

John Bolton in today’s Boston Herald: Of course, Vietnam became a “quagmire” because of U.S. unwillingness to persevere to reach our objectives. Obama ignored the critical point that Gen. Creighton Abrams’s strategy had...

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We Won’t Have Ensign to Kick Around

Sen. John Ensign has finally, finally, finally decided to resign in disgrace. It took him so long that Eliot Spitzer practically rehabilitated his career in the interim. Ensign strikes me as a near-perfect politician. He looks...

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