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Hardee-Har-Har

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On November 5, 2006
The Weekly Standard's parody page features the following knee-slapper as a "Kids' letter to Barak Obama":Dear Senator Obama,I'm a student here at Harvard and my mama tells me there ain't no way a person of color be treated fair in Amerika even if they go...

Charles Johnson, Genius

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On November 3, 2006
As a follow-up to Dave's post, get this from reactionary fusion jazz musician and Trainwreck Media founder Chuck Johnson. The New York Times article says this:Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations...

Tort Deform

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On November 2, 2006
I've neglected to say that the Drum Major Institute has a terrific new blog intended to counter the rhetoric of the "tort reform" movement, to which I will be an occasional contributor. With respect to my prediction that Roberts and Alito would join the moderate...

Feminism: Still Necessary

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On November 1, 2006
The Happy Feminist and Jessica Valenti draw our attention to a remarkable-in-a-bad-way ruling by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. The court threw out a rape conviction because the judge failed to instruct the jury that a woman could not legally withdraw consent after...
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