China in Lebanon

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You heard it here first....BBC:China will increase its peacekeeping presence in Lebanon to 1,000 troops, Premier Wen Jiabao has confirmed. The move would make China one of the largest contributors.

Our Shrill Constitution

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Greenwald on John Yoo.I used to finish discussions of Yoo by pointing out that the Constitution did not, in fact, inscribe 18th century conceptions of the British Monarchy into American law. But as Pithlord reminded us, this was actually unfair...to Blackstone: "Blackstone did not claim that...

Making Disastrous Ideas More Disastrous

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DeLong, invoking Daniel Davies, makes the first obvious point about Jon Chait's attempt to mount a "liberal" defense of the Iraq War. Chait wasn't just defending some abstract Iraq War--he was defending George Bush's war. A war in which the ruling administration wasn't run by the...
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