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Good Ideas in History: November 2

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On November 2, 2006
In the middle of a 1959 game against the New York Rangers, Jacques Plante, Hall of Fame goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens, returned from the locker room with a mask after being hit in the face with a puck shot by Andy Bathgate. Although Plante...

Walker, Texas Wanker

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On October 31, 2006
Via Whiskey Fire, we learn that Chuck Norris now has a column at World Net Daily. It's worse than you can possibly imagine. For instance, in his response last week to the circulation of satirical (and profoundly boring and un-funny) "Chuck Norris Facts" on the...

Elections

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On October 30, 2006
Since at least 1980 -- with the infamous Reagan campaign ad claiming that that Ayatollah Khomeini wanted Carter to win a second term -- it's become an article of faith to some that Islamic fanatics want nothing less than Democratic hegemony over all branches of...

Defeatists

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On October 29, 2006

Via Juan Cole, we read of a minister from Houston who is running around the country insisting that Republicans need to be defeated because George W. Bush is delaying the.

Birthday Boy

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On October 28, 2006
I think I can speak for nearly everyone in wishing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a happy 50th birthday (which he would be celebrating, of course, if he abided by the Gregorian rather than the Islamic calendar).
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