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I Can’t Believe I’m Writing About Obama’s Birth Certificate
9 comments on I Can’t Believe I’m Writing About Obama’s Birth CertificateThe predictability of the birthers’ reaction serves only to validate Obama’s refusal for two years to seek a waiver to permit the release of the long-form birth certificate.
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Why Libya But Not Syria? For That Matter, Why Iraq But Not Libya?
How do we justify allowing Assad to kill his own people after taking up arms against Gadhafi for doing the same thing? Syria — with its ties to Iran, its support for Hamas and Hezbollah,…
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Preparations for Easter at St. George’s
Much thanks to Maplewood Patch editor Mary Mann for taking the visual images from St. George’s Palm Sunday observance and turning it into a spritely and thorough announcement of the upcoming Easter services. Cranky political…
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The U.S. Debt Bubble Will Make Sub-Prime Mortgages Look Like a Picnic
Just how bad is the U.S. debt problem? Jim Manzi spells it out at The Corner: … we are sitting on the mother of all bubbles. Many, probably most, Americans anticipate a stream of consumption…
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In Search of A Thoughtful Liberal Economist
A Facebook friend said Dean Baker is “a fine, clear-thinking economist, [and] he’s also an uncannily good press critic.” Sounds great — I’ve been looking for a source for regular commentary from a left-leaning economist,…
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How to Tell When They Get Serious About Deficit Reduction
“The joke re the original $38.5 billion deal was that, in the time it took to negotiate it, we added as much again in new debt (we’re borrowing about $4 billion a day). … At…
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A Brief History of Presidential Betrayal, Through the Prism of Andrew Sulllivan
If Obama has lost Andrew Sullivan, has he lost the Left, the Right or the Center? For reasons that will become clear, I’ve been watching off and on to see what might happen when Obama…
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Libya vs. Iraq: Geopolitical Insight in a Robotic Monotone
He: “So Obama is killing civilians in a pre-emptive, unfunded war for oil, promoted by the dictators of the Arab League along with the UN, in support of some unidentified rebels who he’s never met…
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Astonishment at Obama’s War-Making Overwhelms Consideration of the Merits of It
It was nearly three years ago that Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination, in part on the strength of having the purest “surrender-at-any-cost” position on Iraq. Who then could have predicted the following headline:…