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If you're wondering where health care dollars go in this country, the invaluable Phil Klein reminds us :
Raymond Raad, a resident in psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and co-author of a new Cato study , presented evidence showing that the United States ...
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I'm posting this one just so I can use a sentence I'm sure I will never use again:
I prefer the Raffi version to the Bob Dylan version.
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*Lots of interesting stuff out there on Sarah Palin and her book tour. the Daily Beast looks at how Palin's book and tour are a one-woman economic stimulus package . Obama's organization wants a part of that action too: Organizing for America says Palin's book tour is "dangerous," so please ...
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An interesting look back at the demise of large North American mammals and its impact on the ecosystem .
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baseballcrank.com - 42 hours ago
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I have a lot of respect for Fred
Thompson, and in this particular case I think his
point is precisely correct on the merits, but there are just some things that opponents of the President shouldn't say during wartime, and maybe it's just bad phrasing ...
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WAR: Dear Fred Thompson: Let's Not Do This Again
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The baseball writers for once got both Cy Young Awards right. One thing that jumps out as a sign of the times: neither 15-game-winner Tim Lincecum nor 16-game-winner Zack Greinke (both of whom were "supported" by weak offensive teams) had so much as 25 decisions .
Looking at Greinke's ERA+ ...
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Lindsey Graham exposes the extent to which Attorney General Holder simply doesn't have a well-thought-out plan for how to handle interrogations of captured enemy combatants in a way that makes a rational distinction between those who should be given Miranda and other warnings in preparation for ...
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I had the pleasure of hearing Justice Alito speak at the Federalist Society Convention a few years back; I didn't make it this year, but apparently he was again both entertaining and insightful, and Above the Law has a recap . H/T . A highlight:
Referring to [then-Judge Sotomayor's] opening ...
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The second of my posts to get picked up at CBS News is up, this one the item on the polls on the terror trials .
Also, we're ramping up a new foreign policy blog, "Hegemon," over at the New Ledger. Not much content yet, but my first post is up , on whether it matters if the President has ...
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Add New York Governor David Paterson - surely, no right-winger - to the list of critics of trying Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in Manhattan , and he adds an additional concern, that the expense and additional security will interfere with the endlessly-delayed plans to rebuild on the Ground Zero site: ...
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Here in New York, the Obama Administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Al Qaeda terrorists in the civilian justice system in downtown Manhattan has garnered plenty of well-earned criticism, including from New York's leading anti-terrorism experts like Rudy Giuliani, ...
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baseballcrank.com - 3 days ago
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The death of Detroit continues, as the Potiac
Silverdome, onetime home of the Detroit Lions, sells for
a mere $583,000 to an unidentified Canadian company : The sale of the Silverdome takes a large financial burden off the hard-hit city of Pontiac, which has fallen on hard times, with budget ...
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FOOTBALL: Silverdome Fire Sale
President Obama, February 24, 2009, justifying his "stimulus" plan to a joint session of Congress :
I know there are some in this chamber and watching at home who are skeptical of whether this plan will work. I understand that skepticism. Here in Washington, we've all seen how quickly good ...
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I haven't watched Sarah Palin's Oprah interview yet, but the Anchoress has and is unimpressed , specifically regarding Palin's attitude towards her media antagonists (including the AP, which assigned 11 reporters to come up with some fairly flimsy "fact-checks" of Palin's book ):
I know ...
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baseballcrank.com - 3 days ago
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Somewhere in these 57 states, there exist Congressional
Districts between sight and sound, in which Barack Obama
is "creating jobs" that do not exist for constituents of Congresspersons who do not exist either, reports Jonathan Karl of ABC News : ...
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POLITICS: The Meaning of Jobs "Created," Part II
baseballcrank.com - 4 days ago
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The Washington Examiner spots the pattern from multiple
news reports : More than ten percent of the
jobs the Obama administration has claimed were "created or saved" by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to ...
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POLITICS: The Meaning of Jobs "Created"
baseballcrank.com - 7 days ago
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Pardon me if I am seeing red this
morning : Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and four others accused in the attacks will be put on criminal trial in New York, Attorney General Eric Holder is ...
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WAR: The Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Lower Manhattan Reunion ...
The latest Quinnipiac poll of Connecticut voters is out , and while it is (standard disclaimer) only one poll, it shows bad news for Chris Dodd, good news for his strongest challenger, Rob Simmons , and bad news for President Obama's health care plan.
Here's the topline result on Simmons vs ...
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I had assumed that Ken Griffey jr would retire after hitting .214 this season, to preserve some dignity, but apparently he not only wants to return in 2010, but has convinced the Mariners he's enough of an asset to give him a contract comparable to his 2009 salary of over $3 million Why?
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