Month: June 2014

Casual Observation

This comes up from time to time, but Erick Erickson has some really weird religious beliefs. I guess they are kind of consistent with the cosmology and theology of Christianity, but they’re basically unreconstructed from...

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You Killed Iraq

The nation-state of Iraq was never a particularly good idea, but it plodded along for most of the 20th-Century with a series of kings and dictators at the helm. President George W. Bush killed that Iraq and it cannot be saved no...

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Leave Malia and Sasha Alone

When I was growing up, I worked in a grocery store, as a bus boy, bar back and waiter, and as a house painter. My parents reside in an assisted living community and our family likes to go out for ice cream on the weekends, so a...

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Who is Steve Scalise?

I don’t know much about House Majority Whip-Elect Steve Scalise. There’s not much information about him at his Wikipedia page. He graduated from LSU with a major in computer programming and a minor in political...

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