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I realize this is a pedantic complaint, but would it be possible for Sarah Palin to launch her chapters with epigraphs that aren't of dubious origin? The first chapter, for example, opens with a quotation from Lou Holtz that the former football coach apparently wrote exclusively for this book . ...
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From the "subplot excised from The Road for being too disturbing and creepy" file: Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. The gang allegedly targeted people on remote roads, luring them ...
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Via Berube , Dean Dad uses the fact that a recent Supreme Court decision has been interpreted by lower courts in ways that have undermined the academic freedom of public university professors to...argue against tenure. Now, there are certainly good arguments to be made against the tenure system ...
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The esteemed Dr. Noon is not the only blogger to be studying Going Rogue in depth. See also Going Commando, who supplies indispensable detail on the naming conventions within the Palin family...
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I'm assuming that she failed to fulfill all of the duties of the position at the high standard demanded by the National Organization for Marriage, and that the crown will now pass to the first runner-up...
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The European Union selected its President and High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy and Vice President for External Affairs. In the classic stereotype of the dull gray bureaucrat, they've selected a couple of relative lightweights (given the nature and stature of the position) whom ...
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The funniest sentence thus far in Going Rogue occurs about a third of the way through the second chapter when our heroine -- speaking through the Palinese translator Lynn Vincent -- declares that "life is too short to hold a grudge." This is a warm piece of advice that Sarah Palin predictably ...
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Sarah Palin
Stephen Walt, following a rundown of ten "scary monsters" of foreign policy: First, we are often told that international politics is a dangerous business, and that it makes sense to prepare for the worst case. This is nonsense, because there are real costs to exaggerating various potential ...
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France 1 (1) - 1 (0) Ireland. AET. France qualify for the 2010 World Cup. I recall watching the 1986 World Cup on TV, which was a rarity at the time from the United States. I vaguely recall watching the Argentina v England quarter final match as well. However, not being an England fan, and ...
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Proffer theories as to avocation I undertook presently . You guessed it! I spent the day marking papers, which, means I had, many reminders of why teaching Writingstudents, even at the Universitylevel , can make even the most mild-mannered academic want to JAB IN EYES JAB IN EYES . (Actual ...
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A great catch by Cole , who notes that a new CNN special should remind us that one of the chief witnesses in the extremely thin and frequently illogical witchhunt against Scott Beauchamp, First Sergeant John Hatleywas convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in cold blood: 1SG Hatley and the other ...
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I assume that the fact that the latest ad hoc conservative arguments that following the rule of law is a luxury the United States just can't afford are illogical isn't news to most of you, but Lithwick provides an excellent summary: Opposition to the Obama administration's plan to try alleged ...
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Barack Obama
9/11
This comment from Dave's thread (also appearing here ) deserves the full blog treatment: First let me say, great blog! Second, let me say I wish I had read it first before buying this book. I stood in line to get my copy of this book from the local bookstore fearing it might be sold out early. ...
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I should note at the outset that Going Rogue is substantially worse than even I could have predicted. The opening chapter is clearly supposed to bear several loads, including (1) establishing Palin's geographic and cultural bona fides ; and (2) conveying her abiding love for Jeebus, family and ...
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I endorse most of what Gian Gentile says here about the Vietnam War, especially in the context of this quote from George Herring: …the war could [not] have been ‘won’ in any meaningful sense at a moral or material cost most Americans deemed acceptable. Gentile is a pretty harsh critic of the ...
