Is there anyone in public life more reviled than economic eminence and White House chief economic advisor Larry Summers? Liberals, moderates, women, academics, and now, with his hand in the financial crisis, Middle America: he’s managed to offend them all. But if there is any good still lingering anywhere in the vicinity of Summers, the [...]
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Jacob Laksin | December 4, 2009 | Posted in
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Mike Flynn thought it was a crazy idea. When James O’Keefe, a 25-year-old, self-styled investigative journalist, first approached him last August about promoting a series of candid-camera style videos on the community organizing group ACORN, Flynn, an old Washington hand and editor of the new libertarian-themed website Big Government, initially dismissed the project as far-fetched. [...]
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Jacob Laksin | December 2, 2009 | Posted in
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On Monday’s O’Reilly Factor, Mike Huckabee made his first television appearance since serial felon Maurice Clemmons (allegedly) murdered four police officers on Sunday morning. Since the murders, the media have lambasted Fox News analyst and former Arkansas governor Huckabee for having commuted Clemmons’ life sentence back in 2000. I had been curious as [...]
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JE Tabler | December 1, 2009 | Posted in
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We call them “deal breakers.” You ladies know what I mean. He tells you he loves model trains. Or Star Trek. He’s a part time clown or ventriloquist — or, heaven help us, full time. You fix a rictus grin on your face, silently morn the time you wasted shaving your legs, and scan for [...]
Tehran approves ten new uranium enrichment sites, ignores world condemnation.
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Stephen Brown | December 1, 2009 | Posted in
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