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Great.Nice to see Pedro get #200 last night. (Oddly, it's the second time I've seen a pitcher named "Martinez" win his 200th win live; I saw Dennis' in Florida in 1993.) You'll see that Pedro's most comparable pitcher right now is Sandy Koufax. This, however, is...

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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 9/11 Bedwetter Hawk Defined

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In the Vodkapundit thread cited by Belle, I believe we have (4/7 6:39 AM) the definitive example of the wankosphere's vast strategic acumen:With respect to what else....Every play Civilization?I think Syria and Iran are next on the list. I've mentioned this before, but We should take...

Sicily

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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.

The Real M/W Problem

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Via Henry comes the good news that Jacob Levy is back to at least intermittent blogging, with a definitive take on the Mearsheimer/Walt controversy. Levy notes that "Mearsheimer and Walt are among the country's leading scholars of security and of international power relations...it's very far afield...

Slate: Lords of the Realm of Illogic I

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William Saletan's latest piece comparing the "war on smoking" to an upcoming "war on obesity" rests on two clearly erroneous underlying premises, one of them fatal. The somewhat less important one is the uncritical relating of the claim of "federal officials" that "would soon surpass tobacco...
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