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Memo From Turner’s Diary

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On August 20, 2006
Shorter various blogospheric wingnuts: the government's appalling lack of racism gives people no recourse but to take racism into their own hands....UDPATE: via Roy, I see that Glenn Reynolds concurs that the racist harassment of the passengers is explained by "excessive political correctness on the...

A Really Dark Alliance

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On August 18, 2006
Roxanne directs us to this excellent story in the L.A. Times about reporter Gary Webb. Webb , who committed suicide in 2004, wrote a series of stories about the CIA's connections with Nicaraguans who were dealing drugs north of the border. What followed his reporting...

Old Skool

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On August 18, 2006

Ah, nothing better than a consequential August doubleheader. Well--something could be better; the Red Sox could be starting a major league pitcher instead of Jason Johnson. I actually had a.

...makes another appearance in the august pages of the Wall Street Journal. Most of the truly bad arguments made by the forced pregnancy lobby result from an understandable unwillingness to apply one's purported principles with even a modicum of consistency. The "but would you have...
Jeff Goldstein, responding to Andrew Sullivan's point that reactionary bloggers were yet again gratuitously bringing his sexuality into a political discussion:Still, with this--his latest attempt to silence his critics by appealing to victim group emotionalism and then playing the implied homophobe card against me--Sullivan has...
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