Glenn Beck

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Jonathan Schwartz makes an important point about the bigot Glenn Beck's meretricious "documentary," which aired twice last week on Headline News. Theodore N. Kaufman was a 31-year old owner of a theatrical ticket agency in Newark, New Jersey who published at his own expense a 100-page...

Pushing…

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Matt makes a good point; the idea that "one last big push" will make a difference in Iraq is absurd on its face. The basic problem of counter-insurgency warfare is.

A Funny…

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Heh.I'll just note how ironic it is that the man who popularized the term "no free lunch" proved that if you were willing to argue against taxation and government regulation,.

The Collapse of the Post-Brown Dream

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This story reminds me of something I've been meaning to talk about. Some New Jersey legislators are proposing that the state end "the special financing given to the state’s poor [school] districts." Since this funding exists because the New Jersey courts found unequal school funding to...

Observations on the Big Game

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Ivan Maisel:Eight times in the 10 years (1969-78) that Hayes and his protégé, Bo Schembechler, glowered at each other across the sideline, their teams played for the Big Ten championship. Each coach took his team to the Rose Bowl five times. Hayes went 1-4, Schembechler went...
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