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02 May 2009
None dare call it . . . what is that word again?

It’s a word I associate with the McCarthy era and patriotic fanaticism; its commission is the...
25 April 2009
“Frankly, this does look a lot like Jimmy Carter. Carter tried weakness, and the world got tougher and tougher, because the predators, the aggressors, the anti...
13 April 2009
As our warrior robot drones eradicate evil — or at least “militancy” — from above, the Suicide Army of the East vows to keep blowing itself up until we call...
19 March 2009
“But administration officials also worry that taking too hard a line with AIG and other companies could discourage top financial experts and institutions from...
24 February 2009
A number of bad ideas and virulent trends in American life converge, it seems to me, in the unfolding scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., known as “kids for cash.”...
19 February 2009
“Down the long lane of the history yet to be written, America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful...

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