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The Wages of Socialism Are Greece
3 comments on The Wages of Socialism Are GreeceLook to Greece, the cradle of democracy, to see what happens when the people no longer are able to vote themselves bread and circuses. From the Voice of America: Workers in Greece are in the…
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On Gay Marriage, NY vs. NJ, and the Maplewood Bubble
Same-sex marriage is a basic civil rights issue, and the only acceptable outcome is full marriage equality. With every passing year America will bend further in that direction. Faster, please.
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Obama Swats the Gay Ping-Pong Ball
While I was at the Karen Armstrong lecture last night, President Barack “Marriage is between a man and a woman” Obama was walking back his position on one of the few issues where I have…
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Karen Armstrong Preaches Compassion in Morristown
I tried to bait the famous author into a partisan screed, but she was having none of it. “America is at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now our Nobel Peace Prize winning president is…
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Quick Take: VDH on Obama’s Afghanistan Speech
Victor Davis Hanson on last night’s presidential speech about Afghanistan: “We are on the hinge of history, unsure whether we swing to 1974 and give up, or swing back to 2006 and win.”
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You Go Girls! Saudi Women Risk Jail to Drive
But the 21st century’s most dangerous strain of barbarism has its center of gravity in a culture that produced 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers. A culture whose organizing figure consummated his “marriage” to…
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Lemme Get This Straight — BILL Clinton Thinks Weiner Should Resign?
Bill Clinton — he of the cigars and the perjury and the finger-wagging and the 14-month impeachment ordeal and the professed ignorance of the meaning of “is” — should leave it to his wife to…
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There Are a Billion Muslims — We Better Make Friends With Some of Them
America is at war with a global enemy motivated by Islam — but if Islam itself is the enemy, we’re all in trouble. Father Butler should be commended, not attacked, for working to build bridges…
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A Random Tweet That Caught My Eye
@iowahawkblog David Burge Did you know @RepWeiner uses the same brain when he’s in Congress? I don’t spend much time on Twitter — none, actually, although I flirted with it for a while — but…
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Strange Bedfellows: House GOP Leadership Has Obama’s Back in Libya Showdown With Kucinich
When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama launched an air war against the Libyan regime without Congressional approval in March, he said he expected the action to last “days, not weeks.” In a post about…