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Ezra Klein notes Hastert and Frist trying to blame Democrats for the House GOP passing a breathtakingly reactionary immigration bill. Good luck with that.Serious question: How do we account for the puzzling phenomenon that is the House GOP in 2006? Specifically, why is it they vigorously...

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Yglesias:Ever since 9/11 he's been generating words as a fantastical rate the overwhelming plurality of which are based on pretty clear-cut misreadings of Thucydides such that a book about how.

Lest We Forget…

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Belle Waring:No, the thing that strikes me as funny is that everyone who supports was with Iran is all about the “mad mullahs” and how they can’t be deterred by normal deterrance because they’re crazed jihadis content to incinerate their own country, plus OMG THE HIDDEN...
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The dreadnoughts of the High Seas Fleet had two notable characteristics. First, they were well armored and have excellent survivability characteristics. These qualities extended to German battlecruisers, most of which took brutal damage at Jutland yet survived. On the downside, German dreadnoughts tended to be poorly...

The Mythical Ticket/Payroll Connection

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It's nice to see King Kaufman tackle a particularly stupid element of sports labor-bashing, the idea that increasing ticket prices are due to high salaries:A Sox fan named Don Watts made the old connection between salaries and high prices to a reporter from the Fitchburg Sentinel...
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