So I was watched a bit of the John Birch Society sponsored Republican Debate in South Carolina. The competition to earn approval from the 27% fringe that controls the party’s base was really something to see. This word seemed to best describe it: The event was live blogged here and here and over here (last …
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SiubhanDuinne sends this gem to start your day: A 46-year-old minister pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Savannah to a wire fraud scheme in which he stole at least $200,000 from the church where he was the pastor. […]At the same time, Terrell also is awaiting trial on charges that he molested a young …
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat Edition
No gardening for me right now, until the wound on my palm closes up. And now that it’s forbidden, weeding & mowing suddenly seem much more attractive. The cherry blossoms have fallen, the lilac trusses are starting to open, and with any luck there will still be a few six-paks of pansies and allysum available …
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Well Then, This Clears Things Up
Some days, I really think he is trolling us: I think it’s fairer to say it was about both. I do believe that the reaction to the end of the cold war was a classic moment in conservatism’s divide. I was relieved we no longer had to fight a global war, with all the draining …
Supermarkets Are Educational!
Tom Scocca, at Slate: In today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription only), George Mason economics professor Donald J. Boudreaux defends the greatness of the free market, and argues for privatizing education, by posing a thought experiment: “Suppose that groceries were supplied in the same way as K-12 education.” __ The result, according to Boudreaux, would be …
I think this litigation will create jobs in the private sector
Now that Mitch Daniels has blocked access to basic health care for 20,000 people in Indiana on orders from a powerful constituency within the GOP, he’s heading out to launch his national career. While he’s doing that, I’d like to go back to Indiana for a moment and look at some uncomfortable facts that contradict …
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What we’ve got here is more than failure to communicate
Doug Mataconis thinks that convincing the public to gut Medicare may be as simple as putting together a Draper-worthy PR blitz: Republicans may find that they are losing the public relations battle over entitlement reform and deficit reduction… [….] For better or worse, the public has become used to these programs in their present form, …
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