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The Right’s Failure of Imagination

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So Grover "Drown the Government in a Bathtub" Norquist looks forward to the possibility of depicting Barack Obama as a "shady Chicago socialist" in the general election. An impressive and original strategy, but really -- why stop there? I suggest trying to cast Obama as a...

V-2

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Brad has a good post on the Freeman Dyson review of Michael Neufeld's new biography of Werner Von Braun. Essentially, Dyson makes the argument that the V-2 was a poor.

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"Popularity Contest"

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John Dickerson, while ruminating on the possible limits of Barack Obama's "hipness," asks a profoundly stupid question:More generally, shouldn't Democrats who have complained that George Bush was elected on the.

The Mind Boggles

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Like a moth to the flame, I followed Scott's Paglia link, finding this:A quite different film that I've recently enjoyed re-seeing and studying is "Revenge of the Sith" (2005) from.

Why Is Salon Publishing This Person?

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Yet more evidence for the proposition that the answer to the question "Who's worse, MoDo or Paglia?" is "whoever you've read most recently." I won't even get into Paglia's fulsome praise for the cinematic genius of George Lucas...

Lessons in Diplomacy

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From Vanessa at Feministing:In the midst of a trade discussion in 1973 with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Chinese leader Mao Zedong offered sending Chinese women to the United States.

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The Ja Rule of the Foreign Policy Clerisy

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Spencer Ackerman:Michael O’Hanlon is a Brookings Institution defense expert who doesn’t actually know anything about defense. He does, however, know how to be a reliable barometer of what very-slightly-left-of-center establishment types believe should be said about defense. If anyone in the foreign-policy community respects O’Hanlon, I...

So Much Wrong

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Here's the synopsis: In Oxnard, California, a 14-year-old boy is being charged as an adult (and with a hate crime enhancement) for the shooting murder of a gay classmate [as.

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