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Populism fee-vah: Iceland to draft ordinary citizens to write new constitution
Hmmm. It’s not quite the Buckleyan dream of being governed by the first 400 names in the phone book, but it’s as close as we’ll ever get. On Twitter, Karl suggests a name for the project: The Iced Tea...
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Quotes of the day
Unification. “President Obama should be vulnerable in the next election given the current arc of the economy, but his personal popularity and the power of incumbency still make him a formidable...
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Somali-Born Teen Arrested After Attempting to Detonate a Car Bomb in Oregon
“...it’s in Oregon; and Oregon like you know, nobody ever thinks about it.” It’s not just high-profile targets that are at-risk, folks. PORTLAND — A Corvallis teenager was arrested Friday in connection...
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Mad about Four Loko
Safe if only if you make it yourself? Might be worthwhile to see if one can buy Four Loko stock – the drink’s about to reach cult status: A fizzy drink with alcohol and coffee, Four Loko has some...
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Drug war in Rio’s slums
Slowed down, for now. The slums of Rio de Janeiro have been a festering wound of crime, drugs and violence for a very long time. However, with the upcoming 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, the...
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The Fuss Over ID
Your papers, please Bill King trots out another old favorite, conservative chestnut this week by once again suggesting that perhaps people who show up at the polls to vote should bring along some sort...
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GOP Gaining Ground With Hispanics?
Viva La Revolución! Remember all the hand-wringing from those smart “conservative” pundits (you know who they are) who, after the 2008 election, argued that the GOP had to moderate or else risk...
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DOJ seizes domain names of more than 70 websites suspected of piracy
Grabby. The good news? If Ed’s post last week about the COICA bill pending in Congress had you worried, you can rest easy. A day after he posted that, Democrat Ron Wyden vowed that he’d put a hold on...
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Krauthammer to liberals: Conservatism is bigger than just Sarah Palin
"Perfect evidence of how liberals are obsessed with Sarah Palin." Via the ‘Busters, here’s the first and last time that a Krauthammer critique of the left will end up irritating more conservatives than...
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The Mid-East Peace Process
Why? The term “peace process” is one I have come to despise. (I hate it even more than “exit strategy”.) This idea that American can find, or impose, some sort of peace agreement between the Israelis...
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When “I Can” Becomes “You Must”
It Isn't Fairness if You Have to Coerce It. Breitbart’s news site has an interesting article about how nearly 2000 very rich people are lobbying the Democrats to raise taxes on “the rich”, defined as...
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Stuxnet: The second-greatest story ever told
"[T]he worm was designed to allow the Iranian program to continue but never succeed, and never to know why. I know, I know — you already know the basics about Stuxnet. No matter. So do I, yet this is...
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Quotes of the day
The great debate. “The message of the prophet Mohammed, saving one life is as if you’re saving the whole of humanity, the Hindu searching after selflessness, the Buddhist concepts of Kuruni … which all...
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Goodnight Sweet Prince
A huge loss If progressive pundits are to be believed, the only thing Washington cares about is taking care of the fat cats on Wall Street. But apparently their influence does not extend across the...
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NFL week 12 open thread
Believe. Yes, I know this is an NFL thread, but I have to spend at least a moment savoring the Notre Dame win over USC at the LA Coliseum yesterday evening, because I was there. This was actually the...
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McCain: It’s time to start talking about regime change in North Korea
Hmmm. Not through military means, he’s quick to add, but through … what, then? Diplomacy? John Bolton floated this idea in an op-ed the other day but there’s no reason why either North Korea or China...
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Wikileaks servers under DOS attack ahead of diplomatic document dump; Update:...
Hmmm. It’s probably not the feds who are responsible, simply because knocking the servers offline at this point achieves nothing. Wikileaks gave the documents to newspapers weeks ago; the first stories...
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Quotes of the day
Whither centrism? “In a political culture where moderation is the new heresy, centrism is fast becoming the new black. “Political outliers – not quite Republican, not quite Democrat – are forming new...
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Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
Beastly travel. We’re voting on the OOTW today because I was traveling yesterday, unfortunately without my huge carbon-footprint vehicle. Be sure to say “Yes, you did!” when people ask you whether you...
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Yes, it really was this easy to get to diplomatic cables; Update: 3 million...
Scandal. This may be the biggest actual scandal of the Wikileaks document dump. So far, the big headlines have gone to such surprising factoids as the State Department conducting intelligence at the...
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