Behind the Albany Coup

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...is apparently Tom Golisano, who didn't like the fact that New York state tax polcies weren't being constructed for his personal benefit:Mr. Golisano, a billionaire business executive, had spent heavily to help Mr. Smith and other Democrats win control of the Senate in the November election,...

North Korea Nuclear News

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Fox News is reporting this morning that North Korea has declared the existence of its uranium program, and is threatening the weaponize its remaining plutonium. The New York Times confirms the latter, but not the former, and I can't seem to find the text of the...

Deep Thought

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On June 13, 2009

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Omar Minaya's failure to understand the concept of "sunk costs" and hence to not sign Orlando Hudson to replace Luis Castillo -- the gift that keeps on giving.

In search of lost Time

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Radley Balko and Jeff Winkler stroll down Memory Lane at Time magazine, where moral panic isn't a sociological concept -- it's an exciting brand of contemporary journalism. I was at the "obesity summit" Balko references in re the last cover, as pretty much the lone dissenting...

Iran Election Thoughts

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On June 12, 2009

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Mahmound Ahmadinejad is a billion times worse than Hitler, unless he loses the election, in which case he was always irrelevant.... each major candidate seem to believe that he won.

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