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Hitchens Unjumps Shark
It therefore seems to me that the Republican Party has invited not just defeat but discredit this year, and that both its nominees for the highest offices in the land should be decisively repudiated, along with any senators, congressmen, and governors ... |
Oct 14, 2008 |
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stem-cell research breakthrough
Stemming the controversy: Scientists announced Tuesday that they've discovered a way to cultivate stem cells using skin cells instead of embryos. This could mean that potential cures for everything from Parkinson's disease to Alzheimer's might circumvent ... |
Nov 23, 2007 |
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African family to adopt Britney's kids.
A Malawi couple has completed adoption paperwork for Sean Preston Federline, 2, and Jayden James Federline, 1, after their mother, Britney Spears, lost custody of the children Monday. From African family to adopt Britney's kids. - By Ellen Tarlin - ... |
Oct 5, 2007 |
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Why Bush stands by his incompetents
The more radioactive his aides become, the more Bush embraces them. With Gonzales, the president was particularly alone in this stance. Conservatives who might otherwise defend Bush against Democrats were appalled by Gonzales' incompetence and the utter ... |
Sep 2, 2007 |
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The Al Qaeda Reader
These are not real grievances for al-Qaida (it does not bear mentioning that Bin Laden is probably not very concerned with campaign finance reform). They are a means of weaving local and global resentments into a single anti-American narrative, the ... |
Aug 9, 2007 |
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why she banned Paris
A prominent and rich family. A drunk-driving arrest. Serious doubts about intelligence. A misspent youth. Sudden inspiration through the Bible. It's interesting how two of the most unpopular and divisive figures in America today—George W. Bush and Paris ... |
Jun 29, 2007 |
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It's only illegal when the president agrees it's illegal
We now know that in 2004 Gonzales and Andy Card raced to the hospital to try to get a very sick John Ashcroft to certify the legality of the president's secret NSA surveillance program going over the head of Comey, the acting attorney general while ... |
May 18, 2007 |
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The successful Iraq
Interestingly, many of the same issues that have dogged the current American campaign in Iraq dogged American efforts in the Philippines. These include the inability to recognize that the war was not over simply because we thought it should be over, the ... |
Mar 21, 2007 |
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The 40-year-old secondary virgin
For the past 40 years, the conservative movement has welcomed only one kind of person: the true believer. Iconoclasm in the pursuit of moderation was no virtue; orthodoxy in the name of conservatism was no vice. But this weekend, Grover Norquist—the ... |
Mar 1, 2007 |
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A New Yorker's case against Rudy Giulian
the presidential bid Rudy announced last week is staked on more than that Churchillian moment. It is also based on the notion that he is an effective manager who tamed an out-of-control metropolis and ran it efficiently. The real picture is somewhat ... |
Feb 22, 2007 |
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There's trouble brewing in Tunisia
If you wanted to support democracy in the Arab world, why did you begin with your enemies instead of your friends? Why Iraq and Iran? Why not us? From Slate Magazine A must read. As a progressive and a fan of Karl Popper, I've long felt that the ... |
Feb 13, 2007 |
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The Masons make a bid for NASCAR
By appearing on the hood of Conz's car, the Rite will reach millions of viewers during ESPN's race coverage. (Up to 30 million "impressions" per race—a figure that calculates the number of people watching, and the number of times a portion of the car ... |
Jan 30, 2007 |
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Dinesh D'Souza's Mullah Envy
The heart of D'Souza's book isn't his libeling of the American left, but rather his libeling of the American right. D'Souza notes, correctly, that al-Qaida's hatred toward the West in general, and the United States in particular, is animated to a great ... |
Jan 12, 2007 |
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Bushenfreude
And yet Bushenfreude—the phenomenon whereby high-income beneficiaries of the Bush tax cuts use their windfalls to fund Democratic candidates—is still raging this election season. If anything, it's more intense than in 2004. Around the country, high ... |
Nov 2, 2006 |
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Kissinger's back in the White House
Bob Woodward's disclosure of the influence of Henry Kissinger on the Bush administration's Iraq policy both is and is not a surprise. After all, we have known for a long time that the bungling old war criminal has his admirers within the White House. ... |
Oct 9, 2006 |
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Why is Washington exaggerating the pirate threat?
Despite their impressive exploits of late—seizing oil platforms off the coast of Nigeria and, memorably, firing rockets at a cruise ship off Somalia—modern maritime pirates have been robbed of the mystique that once made them stars of the criminal ... |
Sep 14, 2006 |
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network television in its underpants
The fascination of raw feeds—the useless video stream bounced off satellites before and after the "real" video stream appears on live programming—is an old story. As long ago as 1985, the writer David Owen marveled in the Atlantic about a phenomenon he ... |
Jun 21, 2006 |
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the tip of the freakberg
On a projection screen at Stanford Law School, an auditorium full of nerds stared at a picture of a guy who'd done himself up like a cat—not with makeup, but with tattoos and surgery. The guy's whiskers were implanted. His nose had been converted to a ... |
Jun 6, 2006 |
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John McCain's unique gift for politics. By Michael Kinsley
In a presidential run, he would have the votes of millions who disagree with him on major issues but like him anyway. His challenge is to get the votes of more people who agree with him. The fact that his base of support is people who disagree with him ... |
May 19, 2006 |
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2005's most appalling corporate tax giveaway
"It basically gave money to corporations in return for corporate contributions," says Bob McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice. As for the law's name, McIntyre says that Congress was "just kidding." From Slate Notice how the GOP can't think ... |
Apr 13, 2006 |