Month: August 2014

Things Are Bad in Iraq, Middle East

Regardless of their religion, I cannot stand religious fanatics. The scope of ISIS’s victories and the way they treat the people they subjugate are both appalling and terrifying. The American in me wants to do something...

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Seeing the Central American Migrants

I am grateful to Alfredo Corchado for doing an important piece of journalism for the Dallas Morning News. He went down to Mexico and followed the path of the Central American migrants who are trying to move north and enter the...

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Choose Your Grifter

Steve LaTourette used to be a congressman from Ohio who was closely aligned with Speaker John Boehner. Now he runs a Super PAC called “Defending Main Street” that tries to serve the Chamber of Commerce’s...

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Norquist at Burning Man

Okay, this is weird. Grover Norquist is going to Burning Man: There’s no government that organizes this….That’s what happens when nobody tells you what to do. You just figure it out. So Burning Man is a refutation of...

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