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It's been 24 hours since Bush said this, regarding the Iraqi government:"We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation. Twelve million people went to the polls to approve a constitution. It's their government's choice. If they were to say,...

Niall Ferguson, Wanker

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Fergie, 9 February 2005That is why the president is more right than he knows to reject calls for an arbitrary departure date. The price of liberty in Iraq will be, if not eternal vigilance on the part of the United States, then certainly 10 years' vigilance.Fergie,...

Degrading

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On May 24, 2007
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Via Kay Steiger, an excellent COHE article about U.S. News and World Report's ludicrously arbitrary university ranking system. The rankings, created with formulae that have little internal logic, are worse than useless. First, because the apparent certainty of quantification gives them an authority they don't remotely...
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