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The Year in Political Idiocy
December 30, 2013
On September 16th, hours after a man had killed a dozen or more people a couple of miles away at the Washington Navy Yard, a middle-aged fellow in shorts and a t-shirt lit a couple of firecrackers and threw them over the White House fence. An eyewitness likened his action, and ...

Pot, Meet Kettle
December 27, 2013
Self-awareness: it helps. Sort-of-recently discussing the contemporary political scene with Politico’s Glenn Thrush, Obama administration macher John Podesta was sufficiently obtuse to warn that his boss faced “a cult worthy of Jonestown in charge of one of the houses of ...

Enjoy Your G-Rated College Learning Experience
December 17, 2013
I’m going to dress you up like a “whore,” and then we’re going to do it in front of an audience—wait, no, you misunderstand. It’s educational. The strange case of Patricia Adler, a respected and widely published sociologist who teaches at the ...

“Selfie” Non Scandal Proves Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
December 13, 2013
In an event that was not at all controversial this week, and barely, maybe for a hot second or two while cruising through Twitter, counts as interesting, President Obama was photographed taken a “selfie” of himself and the British and Danish prime ministers at Nelson ...

Changes in Drone Policy Starting to Show Effects
December 10, 2013
George W. Bush’s fourth term is going about as well as could be expected. The United States is finalizing an agreement — not without some obstacles — to keep troops and the federal checkbook in Afghanistan through at least 2024. The military tribunals at ...