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Politico writer Lisa Lerer unabashedly characterizes Elizabeth Warren, the gal Congress appointed to oversee trillions in financial rescue funds, as “brilliant.”  Lerer therefore appears genuinely perplexed that Warren is “the scourge of conservative Republicans, who question her panel’s exploration of more-liberal approaches such as nationalization and bank liquidation.”  At a policy level, I’d almost certainly [...]

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The Obama Department of Homeland Security has a report out that targets what is described as Right Wing extremism. In the report there are discussions about radical Right wing groups like returning veterans and skinheads. The definition of a radical Right wing group can be a single issue thing like those opposed to abortion. I [...]

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Beck is too silly and not worth your time. So Neiwert says, in this busy, busy weekend; not just in one article, but two.
Back early last year when I was busy critiquing Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, the question came up frequently: Why would I bother? Isn’t it a problem to be treating a book of [...]

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You are sitting in your office, going about the business of your business, when someone presents themselves at reception, saying they’ve come to confiscate your hard drive, your hard files and any peripheral e-storage devices. They have no warrant to back them up, and they don’t need one. They are from the government. They are [...]

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I grew up in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s.  I have vivid memories of the brief, highly middle class era right before the hippies came (when houses and people looked liked sets and actors from the Dick Van Dyke Show); of the be-ins in Golden Gate Park; of the incredible human degradation that [...]

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The title of this post could have been a handy, six-word summary applied to any one of a number of metropolitan areas throughout the country last year: San Francisco, the Chicago From Whence Our White House Messiah Cometh, Detroit, DC, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Now, it applies to the nation as a whole. [...]

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In the old days, when someone was a substance abuser, the entire onus for the abuse lay with that person.  At a certain point, however, someone figured out that, in many relationships, the abuser’s partner was part of the dance of drug or alcohol dependency.  A new term entered the pop culture vocabulary:  “codependent.”
The theory [...]

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The fifty-fourth Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) award goes out this morning to Ann Coulter for the uppercut at the end of her latest column, Liberal Victimhood: A Game You Can Play at Home. She makes the case that for half a century or more, liberals have energized their supporters, and even [...]

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As I discussed before. They’re at it again.
After generations of finding their voice in dissidence, some Americans on the left wing are adjusting not only to a new postelection comfort with patriotic symbols, but also to the political reality they represent. Believing in Obama after Inauguration Day will mean identifying with the machinery of U.S. [...]

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Rick, we learn of Nicholas Kristoff’s latest column, which isn’t news at all…the findings have been found, many times before.
And for reasons I shall explain later, it will continue to be this way.
Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes [...]

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