Month: July 2014

When the End Comes, It Will Be Sudden

Polls this far out from an election aren’t dispositive of much of anything, but it’s telling that Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma has only a narrow lead over her Democratic challenger while Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York...

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Some People Cannot Be Satisfied

Thomas Frank’s latest column for Salon is a perfect example of the kind of leftist anti-establishmentarianism that I always rail against. President Obama is faulted for nothing more than his willingness and success in...

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The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process

I’ve grown so frustrated with the Middle East and the Israel-Palestine question in particular that I’ve had to fight the urge to just tune it all out. But I sucked it up and read Ben Birnbaum and Amir Tibon’s...

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Odds & Ends

Wait a second. California has more people than Canada? I hadn’t even thought of that possibility. Republicans like Two and a Half Men. Democrats like Divorce Court. At the Washington Post, Matea Gold profiles Art Pope. Sad...

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Everything is Entertainment

Huffington Post reports on the latest in bad taste from a Rupert Murdoch outfit. Sky News has apologized after a reporter began digging through the luggage of a passenger killed aboard Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 on air. The...

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