Month: May 2014

Midday Roundup

Ezra Klein says you should blame the Chinese for the high price of ground beef. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina had his hind quarters handed to him by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Unsurprisingly, the president used his...

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Some Dude Wrote a Manifesto

I have mixed feelings about how to discuss mass killers who leave manifestos explaining their behavior. In a way, I wish we could all collectively ignore their writings and never even mention their names. For example, in all my...

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Don’t Call it ObamaCare

It’s depressing that so many red state citizens tell pollsters that they oppose ObamaCare even as they report liking their state’s health exchanges. I suppose, however, that this is an area ripe for investigation by...

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The NSA Is Not On Your Side

Quinn Norton has written an interesting article on how insecure our online communications are and why we seem culturally incapable of doing anything about it. Part of his explanation is that the Intelligence Community is itself...

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VA Scandal Bolsters Case for Socialized Medicine

As Tim Noah points out at MSNBC, people wait at least as long, and probably longer, to get a doctor’s appointment in the private sector than they do at the Veterans’ Administration. Directly comparable data for the...

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