Month: January 2014

Learning Empathy

Let’s talk about empathy: House Republican leaders sent a memo this week to the entire GOP conference with talking points designed to help rank-and-file Republicans show compassion for the unemployed and explain the...

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Wanker of the Day: Jonah Goldberg

Setting aside the appalling squalor that is detailed in the opening of the profile on Dasani, at no point in his USA Today column does Jonah Goldberg deal with the following reality: In the short span of Dasani’s life, her city...

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Libyan Leader Aims for Separate Cyrenaican State

. One of the many arms merchants roaming troubled areas to sell Israeli goods and buying loyalty. His legacy began with Israeli intelligence, the October Surprise in 1990 and the Israeli link in Iran-Contra Affair. Jadhran hires...

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Sabato’s Bleak Predictions

Larry Sabato’s analysis of the midterm elections is pretty much rock-solid from an historical perspective, but I think history is not particularly useful in this case. At least, I don’t think history that goes back...

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