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The George Pataki Story

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On September 25, 2015
This is a great line, on the next “contenders” likely to drop out of the GOP race: “There comes a point when his irrelevance becomes crystal clear even to him” Beside Pataki, the Iowa GOP insiders picked Jindal and Paul. The former is interesting because Five Thirty Eighty just published a piece that was relatively […]

Trade vs. Climate

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On September 25, 2015

Any international treaty is going to consist of tradeoffs and choosing priorities. This is what foreign policy is made of. For the Obama administration, when its free trade agenda comes into conflict

Speaking of the Second Amendment

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In General
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On September 25, 2015
Kay Daly is running for Congress in North Carolina. She has a son named Jack Reagan and a daughter named Reagan Joy. The family’s recently adopted albino cat is named Goneril.* *The assertions in this sentence are products of ethnographic research rather than journalism or social science. . . . Her webpage is what Stanley […]

Trolling the NCAA

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On September 25, 2015

I can’t say much for the design of the t-shirts, but I love how former University of North Carolina quarterback Caleb Pressley is trolling NCAA president Mark Emmert on the amateurism issue. He&

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Fishing For Kim Davis

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In General
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On September 25, 2015
Who will offer a contrarian defense of Kim Davis? Why, Mr. Stanley Fish, of course: Obviously, these two decisions (and there are many more on either side of the divide) offer different templates for determining how to think about Kim Davis: from the perspective of Smith, Judge Bunning got it right; from the perspective of […]

Boehner

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On September 25, 2015

Resigning not only the Speaker position but his seat in Congress. Wow. Whoever takes over as Speaker is likely to be even more nuts. Presumably this will be someone who actually has the power to steer

Friday Links

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On September 25, 2015

ACA trooferism never dies, it just takes different forms. The President-to-adjunct ratio. Another victim of CTE. The trials of Ed Graff. Against equality of opportunity.

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