Author: TerranceDC

Why Stop at Waterboarding?

This is getting ridiculous. Now conservatives are volunteering to be waterboarded. Now? Seriously? Where were they for the past eight years, when we were doing that and much, much more to people, many of whom weren’t...

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An Ounce of Prevention, Pt. I

Hillary Clinton surprised me when she said, on a recent trip to Mexico, "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade." Strong words, and more intentionally honest than George W. Bush’s...

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Peggy Noonan’s Long Walk to Nowhere

She did it to me again. Every time, I tell myself that I’m not going to let the mindless blather that dribbles from Peggy Noonan’s lips set me off. Every time, I tell myself it’s going to be the last time....

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A Dead-End “Road to Recovery”

I don’t know whether to praise the Republicans or pity them. On one hand, they’ve been given chance after chance to "bring it," in term of ideas to address the crises we face — an act of astounding...

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Time To Deliver

(Crossposted from the day job.) Last week, when the fury over AIG bonuses was just peaking, I read something that jolted me out of own anger and into a realization: After a transformational election and at the beginning of a...

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