Not for nothing, does Megan McArdle deserve the title, “Dumbest Blogger Ever”. Ezra Klein does a great job destroying a post by both her and her husband. The subject-health care reform and the lies that are consistently told about it.
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Heading home…..
Greetings from the lounge at Heathrow Airport. I’m sitting here cooling my heels waiting to catch my flight back to the US. I am happy to be going home. It did not dawn on me till yesterday-what day I had been booked to travel. Today is the 9th anniversary of
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Well the day I have been looking forward to-is getting closer. With luck I will be back across the Atlantic ocean this weekend. Romania has been nice-but ten weeks is about six weeks two much. I’ve seen the city pretty much through and through, driven around southern Romania and up
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The Republican party that is. This is a serious post-to try to explain why I feel as strongly as I do on several issues and why I feel abandoned by the political party I once considered my home. A post over at the League of Ordinary Gentleman by E.D. Kain
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Especially when you are incapable of telling the truth. The details of Sarah Palin’s contract were ordered released by a California judge who pointed out that University of California officials had violated state public records laws in agreeing with Palin to keep the contract secret. On top of a $75,000
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Some times a photo says it all: Make-up and Hair style…………..$1,500.00 New Dress for the show…………$2,700.00 Giant Stuffed Bear………………….$300.00 Not knowing how to hold the bear with a microphone in your hand…………Priceless!
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And acknowledging an inconsistency the Tea Party needs to get its arms around. Take it away Ron Paul: As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions
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Col Sellin is not going quietly into that great good night-as he returns to Finland and his job with an IT company ( where he was before he got ordered up to active duty). This post is right on the mark-as was his other one about the atrophy of our
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Good news for guys like me. But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that — for reasons that aren’t entirely clear — abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one’s risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part?
Continue readingThe end of Second Fleet?
Could be. More strangely, the lobbyist and his boss both declined to comment on the supposition just days after being widely quoted on the topic. The Navy said, essentially, “No comment.” But naval analysts and a retired admiral who commanded Atlantic Fleet surface forces say they’re hearing exactly what the
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