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Temporary Amnesia Strikes Some upon Death of Nelson Mandela
December 06, 2013
Our major publications were ready for the death of Nelson Mandela. When it came yesterday, at age 95—probably later than many, including Mandela himself, expected—we got to see the editorial plans they’d had for years in the making move into action. Time has ...

British Government Has Pinpointed the REAL Problem
December 05, 2013
News flash: Hapless, blundering, useless fools think it’s very dangerous to tell the public what they actually do. Al-Qaeda is a healthy, thriving, voting-age young adult. Born in the late 1980s, the movement bombed American embassies in 1998, attacked an American warship ...

The Swan Song of the Neocon
November 27, 2013
A diplomatic deal with any terms of any importance anywhere in the world has been made, and so the neoconservatives are in full force to cry “Munich.” Good for them. If that’s what they enjoy, let them enjoy themselves. Because they matter not in the slightest ...

Many Opinions but Little Nuance on Iran Deal
November 26, 2013
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) can move the world, if you give him a big enough lever and a place to stand. Just ask him. Objecting to the interim deal with Iran that trades modest sanctions relief for limits on that country’s uranium enrichment, Graham told CNN that the Obama ...

Don’t Say the Magic Word
November 25, 2013
The Obama administration is scared, oh so scaredy scared, of a word. It’s a big mean word, and all of liberalism must tremble in its wake: “redistribution.” The New York Times reports that, among other things, the administration in 2011 bypassed a qualified ...

Adult Babies React as Expected When Favorite Toy Taken Away
November 22, 2013
So the Senate minority is no longer able to filibuster the nominations of all executive and judicial branch appointees for shits and giggles anymore. No longer, to use the most recent example, can it block votes on three judges appointed to a circuit court because, as the excuse ...

Business Is Booming in the Halls of Government
November 21, 2013
Lobster and oysters? Oh, how I hate this buffet—so hard to decide. I guess we’ll just talk over our choices with the buffet concierge, again. What a rough life. Congressional aides are also struggling with the health care exchanges, the poor things. They are, the New ...

HULK SMASH Not Actually Effective Solution to Civic Issues
November 20, 2013
What’s the next logical step for a country that’s just slashed SNAP benefits during a period of high, sorta-becoming-permanent unemployment, and plans to cut even more benefits in the near future? The War on the Hungry must move the ball down the field. What can be ...