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Wow. Amazing.
With Dubya, you always wondered if the government was doing stupid stuff just because it was run by stupid people. I don’t think he chose to sit around reading My Pet Goat while we were attacked, or...
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Nice to Think So
Sy Hersh – the guy who broke the My Lai story – is now claiming that there was/is a military unit that reported(s) directly to the Sith Lord, Dick Cheney himself: Under President Bush’s authority,...
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You Dick
“Attacks since 9/11″? Did you guys get sworn into office on September 11? Why does the clock start then? Did Emperor Hirohito claim to be undefeated in battle after 1945? Since Cheney does not...
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Other People’s Money
The House has decided to move forward with health care reform on pace for the August recess. It is an compelling outline, with a public option, individual and employer mandates, and sweeping...
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I’m with Stupid
Arthur Laffer has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal discussing health care: Implementing Mr. Obama’s reforms would literally be worse than doing nothing. Breathtaking, really. Laffer has impressive...
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Uncomfortable
I hate Dick Cheney. I cannot imagine a more disgusting combination of power and venality in American politics. We have more than our share of scum over the years, but whether by luck or by horse...
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Reform Week: Foreign Policy
Eight years. Many nations celebrate their defeats. The heroic but doomed resistance, the noble stand, the day the walls were breached. Not the US. For a century it was the great distinction of the...
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Perspective
Undeterred by his own attorney general and common sense, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon intends to prosecute Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, Douglas Feith, William Haynes, Jay Bybee, and David Addington...
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Home Court Advantage
Once upon a time, there was a hedge fund named Hermitage Capital. Its head was Bill Browder, and it had the clever idea, back during the Yeltsin Administration, of investing Western capital in Russia....
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The Fierce Urgency of Something
Even by off-cycle election standards, this was an odd one. Perhaps it’s just payback for such a good election last year. I’ll trade watching Chris Christie do his Sopranos impression for never having...
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