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Once more into the hip-hop irony breach, dear Republicans, or close the wall up with our comedic dead: “Control your party man! Spending is out of hand! … ” Ho ho ho… This morning, that clip was played at the Republican Party’s weekly conference by Rep. Dave Reichert, who reportedly wanted to show that anti-bailout [...]
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Ideas as Weaponsis the title of a new book, a collection of essays edited by two Marine Corps officers, G.J. David Jr. and T.R. McKeldin (the publisher is Potomac Books). Subtitled “Influence and Perception in Modern Warfare,” the volume is dedicated to exploring the aspect of war most neglected by the Second Generation American military, [...]
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Online gambling has broken another glass ceiling. Are you a parent who chooses to stay at home to raise your kids? You can now get in on a poker game—and use your winnings to feed the kids. The Poker Players Alliance is on Capitol Hill this week, lobbying for a regulatory scheme that online gamblers [...]
Joe Biden is in Kiev. He has again pledged Washington’s support for NATO expansion to include the Ukraine. Why adding a nation to an already meaningless alliance that will only serve to anger Russia and increase the risk of war is being pursued at all is a mystery to me. Will the US be forced [...]
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When Republicans were warned not to give Sonia Sotomayor the drubbing Democrats gave Robert Bork and Sam Alito — lest they be perceived as sexist and racist by women and Hispanics — the threat was credible, for it underscored a new reality in American politics. The Supreme Court, far from being the last redoubt of [...]
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Embedded video from CNN Video On Fareed Zakaria’s “GPS,” TAC contributing editor Andrew Bacevich deems Afghanistan only “of marginal interest to the United States.” Pakistan is the real center of regional gravity. Thus we must ask whether deploying thousands more troops in an Afghan surge strengthens of destabilizes that more vital security concern. Bacevich answers, [...]
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Maybe it’s just me, but people seem curiously put out about the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11′s landing. One small step for man … one giant yawn for his children. Space, or at least man’s ability to travel in space, doesn’t excite anymore. The older crowd seem especially dejected. The great Tom Wolfe says that [...]
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Does anyone else think it odd and just a bit mission creepy that “the most prolific expansion in DEA history” would occur on foreign soil? This expansion, or “surge,” will come in the form of “dozens of DEA agents” descending on Afghanistan, because, as one DEA official pointed out, after eight years of fighting to [...]
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Score one for Gutenberg. The New York Times reports that Amazon.com deleted books from Kindles that weren’t supposed to be sold. I am probably the millionth person to note the irony that the books deleted in such a Big Brother fashion are George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. I checked, and I have copies of [...]
Why is Obama so eager to have his healthcare “reform” voted on before members of Congress go home for their August recess? Because this advocate of “representative government,” like many others, is a big fraud. He wants the vote to occur before the members go home and get an earful from their “constituents” about how [...]
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