17 December 2012

Not fun for everyone

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Getting drunk and driving 100 miles an hour is also fun, but it’s still illegal. Same with crystal meth. The point is there is a social cos...
15 December 2012

Sandy Hook

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I continue to be amazed that people's commitment to orthodoxy, against all available evidence, comes before their commitment to their c...
02 December 2012

Of Fiscal Cliffs and Talmudic Interpretations

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Classic Josh , but I'm not sure he should leave the   Jesuits   out of this.
21 November 2012

No Comment Necessary

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18 November 2012

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Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi! Beirut! The 1983 attack on US Marines barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 Americans. (Two hundred and for...

Was There an Election?

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04 June 2012

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Haven't Checked in with the General Recently Forgive me, General, for thou art always entertaining .
03 June 2012

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Biggest Mistake of Obama's Presidency Selecting a bunch of anti-Keynesians and following their advice early on was a bone-head move...
06 May 2012

It's not so funny when you start to think about it

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. . . and realise just how accurately it describes the state of our democracy.

Yawn . . .

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This evidently comes as a surprise to people . Who ever could have guessed such things go on in the halls of power ? Meanwhile, back ...
18 April 2012

Wanker of the decade

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Congratulations, Tommy - no-one deserves the honour more than you .
07 April 2012

"The legal opinions have grave weaknesses"

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So, belatedly, a memo is now in the public domain . In truth I can't understand why this makes much of a difference. Okay, yes, per...
31 March 2012

Unravelling

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Thoughtful essay from Edward Luce . The money quote: In daggers-drawn Washington, Democrats and Republicans have been able to agree only on...
29 March 2012

Abiding genius

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. . . I continue to wonder at how he gets away with it . . .
21 December 2011

Oh, Tommy . . .

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You really should have kept your trap shut . You really have nothing to say about Iraq that has any credibility , unless, perhaps, it's...
02 October 2011

We're getting closer to the day . . .

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. . . when someone actually writes a book about what actually happened during the Bush administration . I hope I live to see it.
29 August 2011

Just like ancient Rome

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Paul and his whining : Mr. Perry, the governor of Texas, recently made headlines by dismissing evolution as “just a theory,” one that has “g...
24 August 2011

Finally . . .

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Someone makes the connection : "If James Murdoch was giving his lecture this year," Thompson writes, "I'd suggest he amen...
17 August 2011

Best Fiscal Policy Proposal Yet

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To end our long-term fiscal crisis I'm with Paul. I, too, believe that our only option is commence sub-orbital hostilities against the...
13 August 2011

Go back to law school

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Ain't it the truth - commentary on the 11th Circuit travesty from an always-thoughtful commenter on TPM : I'm a lawyer. It's ha...