yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/4/2008
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I once had the unpleasant experience of being subjected to an unhinged attack from Cato’s Ilya Shapiro who’s apparently the kind of libertarian who sees dogmatic American nationalism and attacks on other people’s patriotism as the highest form of classical liberal values. ...
the-reaction.blogspot.com - 12/4/2008
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By Michael J.W. Stickings I just wanted to
mention that The Guardian asked me to write an...
article, for it's Comment is Free section, on the turbulent political situation here in Canada (which I initially wrote about here ). It was published this ...
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Bare Naked Politics: The ongoing situation in Canada
guardian.co.uk - 12/4/2008
cato-at-liberty.org - 12/4/2008
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Posted by Ilya Shapiro In these heady days
of hope, change, puppies, and rainbows, not too many...
people are paying attention to the political tableau playing out in our northern neighbor. Those wags who do remember that Canada had its own election in ...
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Woe Canada! (Cato @ Liberty)
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... Iraq and that undercuts his core supports, Robert Stacy McCain asserts. The decision to not directly adhere to plans on Iraq is the right decision, but must prompt questions as to whether Obama meant anything he said on the campaign trail, Gateway Pundit declares. Obama is shifting into Saturday Night Live parody mode as he is signaling “never mind” to supporters on windfall taxes for oil companies and other issues, Michelle Malkin writes. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Majority Rule: The New Coup – Matthew Yglesias [image] Health Care ...
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Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... government to avoid the confidence vote he would almost certainly have lost. So the opposition prevented Harper's overreaching but I'm guessing won't succeed in toppling his government in January, and anyway Harper will stay in power for the time being. I'm not sure that waiting until after the Liberals select a new leader in April is the worst thing in the world, although I would have liked to have seen Dion ascend to the PM position, if only temporarily. Meanwhile, via Yglesias this post is really priceless. Aside from the idiocy of arguing that coalition ...
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