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Iowa

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On August 21, 2005
This strikes me as nonsense:The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered one of the nation's most deadly military...

Gas Tax

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On August 21, 2005

Responding to this post, Andrew Cox of the Roosevelt Institution points me to this Roosevelt Review article on gasoline taxes and their effects on conservation and revenue. A plausible case.

s.z. on Coyote Ugly. The even more heart-warming ending is that David McNally would go onto to direct Kangaroo Jack, the La Regle Du Jeu of crudely animated faux-hipster kangaroo movies.In other bad movie news: Among the general hilarity of TBogg's account of a wingnut...

Gibson of the Day

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On August 20, 2005
Moving the goalposts is one thing. Playing a different game after halftime is another. Then there's John Gibson, for whom no sports analogy is appropriate. At the risk of opening this wound again and having the Democrat and liberal blogs flay me again, let me...

Four Outcomes

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On August 19, 2005
Ted Barlow's latest post on Iraq is quite good, based as it is around Orin Kerr's "four outcome" model of US behavior in Iraq:1) The U.S. beats back the insurgency and democracy flowers in Iraq (call this the "optimistic stay" scenario), 2) The U.S. digs...
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