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In the last couple of days, there have been a number of articles (see here or here) about how Republicans, having finally gotten something that resembles an Obama administration scandal, are already worried about overplaying their hand. The sober ones are concerned they might make more of things than the facts merit, lest their nuttiest colleagues grab the spotlight, and head down a dangerous road as they did in 1998.
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I stole the title of this post from an essay Mark Crispin Miller wrote 25 years ago about the effects of television, in which he argued that instead of a totalitarian government forcing us to submit through fear and oppression, we'd happily voluteer to be anesthetized by our TVs. Today though, the more proximate danger involves the rise of a kind of universal surveillance where we're being watched through much of our days, by governmental authorities, corporations looking to part us from our ... Quick Read |
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In case you've forgotten, what took Benghazi from "a thing Republicans keep whining about" to "Scandal!!!" was when some emails bouncing around between the White House, the CIA, and the State Department were passed to Jonathan Karl of ABC last Friday. The strange thing about it was that the emails didn't contain anything particularly shocking?no crimes admitted, no malfeasance revealed. It showed 12 different versions of talking points as everybody edited them, but why this made it a "scandal" ... Quick Read |
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I was at an uncle?s house in Peshawar a couple of months ago when the windows began to rattle. One of my youngest cousins walked towards them, pe ... Quick Read |
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Angelina Jolie?a woman with one of the world?s most famous breasts?has explained in a thoughtful New York Times op-ed this week why she's had them prophylactically removed and replaced. Jolie?s mother died young, after a decade living with ovarian cancer; when Jolie herself got genetically tested, she learned that she had a BRCA1 genetic mutation that gave her an 87 percent chance of getting breast cancer. To protect her children from losing their mother too young, she opted for surgery, which ... Quick Read |
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This week, the Senate and House committees in charge of agriculture passed farm bills?mammoth bills that will last for five years if passed and signed?and sent them to their chamber floors. The bills handle farm policy, but the vast majority of their spending goes to a program that has proven a rich target for a Washington drunk on spending cuts?the food stamp program. The House bill would lower benefits across the board, cutting a fourth of the program?s $80 billion budget. The Senate bill ... Quick Read |
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The root of the recent scandal at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)?in which the agency admitted to singling out Tea Party groups for special scrutiny?is simple: terrible campaign-finance laws.
Here?s the story: The IRS must determine whether organizations applying for 501(c)(4) non-profit status?a classification that exempts you from paying taxes?meet the requirements. As election-law scholar Rick Hasen explains, the central criterion is that ? ... Quick Read |
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As any parent knows, small children often believe that when you've been denied something you want, repeating your request over and over will eventually produce the result you're after. It works on occasion, if the stakes are low enough, the parents are weak of will, and the child is particularly exasperating. Fortunately, this behavior usually disappears around age eight or nine.
Today, President Barack Obama held a joint press conference with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a ... Quick Read |
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From American Prospects
Tomorrow, the public interest will take a loss and the largest banks will chalk up a win.
The shadow market for derivatives was at the heart of the financial crisis. By far, the largest component of this market was the $60 trillion per year swaps market, with more than $700 trillion of swaps outstanding. Compare that with the 2012 U.S. GDP of about $15 trillion. These markets influence interest rates, currency values, credit costs, share values, and commodities, including food, fuel and ... Quick Read |
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Here?s the thing about Virginia gubernatorial contests: More so than even midterm elections, they have abysmally low turnout. From 2008 to 2009, for example, more than 46 percent of voters left the electorate, and overwhelmingly, ... Quick Read |
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