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Month: September 2009

That Doesn’t Sound Very WASPy…

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On September 30, 2009
Seriously?[Robert] Gates doesn't travel much on the Beltway's social circuit, instead spending off-hours with his wife and a small cadre of aides. He smokes cigars, drinks Belvedere martinis with a twist (the first President Bush weaned him from gin to vodka), and watches trashy movies—Transformers...

Au revoir, les enfants

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On September 30, 2009

This reads like a wingnut parody of degenerate France and degenerate Hollywood engaging in an orgy of amoral pomposity. (As a lawyer I confess ignorance regarding the principle of immunity.

Clutching at Straws

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Gordo lays out his vision for the next Labour government.Most of it is the typical Labour shopping list (and the Tory critique that it hasn't been costed out does ring true). I am intrigued by the long awaited constitutional / electoral system reform.Two suggestions stand...

Blue Dog Votes

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On September 30, 2009

In addition to the fact that Blue Dogs who won't allow up-and-down votes are pretty much entirely useless, it seems to me that Blue Dog votes on cloture provide a.

One Last Thing

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On September 29, 2009

I will hopefully leave this subject for a while, but before I do, for those who haven't seen Wanted and Desired I can't recommend Lauren Bans's post more strongly:Excepting the.

You forgot about Keyes!

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On September 29, 2009
Perhaps it's the fact that I've got two children currently being leveled by illness, or that I haven't had a decent night's sleep in -- I dunno, months? -- but this paragraph keeps making me laugh today:Sarah Palin is done with her memoir, which will...

Crime and punishment

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On September 29, 2009

Several commentators in the Polanski thread are apparently taking the view that if a particular exercise of criminal punishment is unlikely to deter crime or rehabilitate the offender, then punishing.

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