Month: August 2013

It’s Always Overblown

I don’t know. In the comments of the last thread, TarheelDem said that Mr. Miranda was an employee of The Guardian but it appears that the British paper merely paid for his flights. He was acting as a courier and carrying...

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The Greenwald Drama Ramps Up

Things are getting really weird. But let’s go back to something Glenn Greenwald said in late June: For now, Greenwald said he is taking extra precautions against the prospect that he is a target of U.S. surveillance. He...

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No One At the Wheel

RNC chairman Reince Priebus won a lot of applause at the committee’s summer meeting when he announced that NBC and CNN were cut out of any future Republican debates, but the rest of his message fell flat: In contrast,...

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Clean Up the Lead Dust

I’m glad that Kevin Drum is pushing the lead-reduction explanation for the drop in juvenile violent crime. He’s right; the statistics suggest that the best crime reduction policy we could pursue is an aggressive...

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