Why You Are Rooting for the Seahawks

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Sure, some of you might want to root for Denver. But then realize that you would be on the same side as John Podhoretz, who just tweeted this about Richard Sherman: Richard Sherman. What a role model for today's Taliban youth.— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) January 20,...

The World’s Worst Deliberative Body

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Hopefully this kind of thing will start to erode Leahy's sentimental attachment to the blue slip, just as it eroded his attachment to the filibuster: In 2009, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) wrote a letter to President Obama recommending that he nominate Jennifer May-Parker, a federal prosecutor...

But We Have Our Love to Pay the Bills

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Speaking of conservatives who want to pretend to talk about inequality while not actually talking about it, Edroso finds this gem from Kathleen Parker: Obviously, marriage won’t cure all ills. A single mother could marry tomorrow and she still wouldn’t have a job. But in the...

The Next Maritime Strategy

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My hopes for the updated Maritime Strategy: Chatter suggests that the U.S. Navy will soon release an update to the Cooperative Strategy for 21stCentury Seapower.  The Cooperative Strategy envisioned the maritime commons as a space for collective action, in which productive rules of the road could lead...

Undue Burden

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Pennsylvania's vote suppression law has been ruled unconstitutional by a state court: A Pennsylvania judge on Friday struck down the state’s voter ID law, which was signed in early 2012.

American Hustle

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“American Hustle” is a film that lingers on your palate like that last sip of that flowery, chocolatey Beoujolais you had that one time. It’s sweet and it’s sophisticated It.

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