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Paul Krugman ends this morning column with a question: Put it this way: Are you worried about a “Greek-style collapse”? Well, these plans would slash spending in the near term, emulating Europe’s catastrophic austerity, even while locking in budget-busting tax cuts for the future. The question now is whether someone offering this toxic combination of [...]

Michelle Bachmann is taking a little bit of heat for the rapidity with which she signed that Family Values oath, with its statement that black families were better off under slavery, and for her general propensity to compare everything she doesn’t like to the imposition of slavery: – Health Reform: In a 2009 speech in [...]

We were in Boston today, and the Greeks were having a parade. This float celebrates some overlooked achievements of Alexander the Great. I suppose the French might say the same things about Napoleon.

There’s nothing new under the sun. The year is 1834 A religious structure, erected by a despised religious minority, and built too close to “sacred ground”, is attacked by an angry mob. Full disclosure, the erudite historian (despite his use of the word “anyways”) is my son.

My wife informs me that a certain corner of the tweetosphere is -well, all a twitter- about this post at the Atlantic. Everyone who’s anyone is linking to it. This has raised our ire, or at least our suspicions, because it is ever so similar to this post, to which I’ve linked in the past, [...]