Month: August 2013

Another Tentacle of the Vampire Squid

Four years ago Mathew Goldstein at Reuters got the first part of this storyright, …a Russian immigrant living in New Jersey was being held on federal charges of stealing secret computer trading codes from a major New...

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How to Make a Bad Situation Worse

Jeré Longman’s long piece in the New York Times is important reading. It’s partly about the tragic budget cuts and job loss in the Philadelphia school system, but it is told through the prism of the closing of...

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You’ve Been Palinized

Alex Pareene understands that Ted Cruz is just a smarter, more cunning, version of Michele Bachmann. I mean, you know what a pain in the ass it is for Mike Enzi to raise enough money to fend off a primary challenge from Liz...

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Tough to Pick in New Jersey

The New York Times has endorsed Cory Booker over Rush Holt, Frank Pallone, and Sheila Oliver in the Democratic primary to replace Frank Lautenberg in the Senate. I’m kind of glad I don’t live in New Jersey anymore...

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The Clinton Juggernaut

With the exception of her tired complaints about liberal media bias, I largely agree with Myra Adam’s analysis about why Hillary Clinton will be elected president in 2016, albeit with the same caveats that Ms. Adams...

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