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Entries from August 2009

August 31, 2009

What We’ve Built Today

The Last Updates Of August

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Filed under Smatterings Of Nothing

August 31, 2009

The Year Of The Tiger May Bring Elephants To The District

What will the 2010 elections bring?

Filed under Political Figures, Politics

Tags: Allah Pundit, Politico, Commentary, Jennifer Rubin, Political Figures, Flopping Aces, Patterico, Politics, Rick Moran, American Spectator, Josh Kraushaar, David N. Bass

August 31, 2009

Playing Poker With The Gang, Sending Your Ante By Air-Gram

Health care post of the day

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Filed under Health Care

Tags: Joe Klein, Swampland, Ezra Klein, Talking Points Memo, Brian Beutler, Washington Independent, David Weigel, Time, Greg Sargent, Wonkette, Health Care

August 31, 2009

Three Men And Afghanistan

What to do, what to do, what to do

Filed under Af/Pak, GWOT

Tags: Washington Post, Atrios, Ann Althouse, Ezra Klein, Spencer Ackerman, National Review, The New Republic, Ed Morrissey, Allah Pundit, Politico, Commentary, Peter Wehner, Dave Schuler, Foreign Policy, Isaac Chotiner, Hugh Hewitt, Marc Ambinder, Rich Lowry, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Dday, The Guardian, Max Boot, Wonkette, William Kristol, Christian Brose, George Will, War On Terror, Mike Allen, Afghanistan, Mark Tran, Anthony Cordesman, Frederick Kagan

August 31, 2009

“I’m Peggy Olson And I Want To Smoke Some Marijuana.”

Weed, TV, and upset mothers

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Filed under Books, TV, War On Drugs

Tags: Adam Tschorn, Ann Althouse, Books, Conor Friedersdorf, Dominique Browning, Gawker, Hamilton Nolan, Jonah Lehrer, Los Angeles Times, Maia Szalavitz, Margaret Wappler, Matt Welch, New York Times, Patricia Cohen, Reason, Rod Dreher, STATS, Television, The American Scene, War On Drugs

August 31, 2009

We Gave Out The Underpants And Now We Collect Them

We’re in the money. The US Government is, that is.

Filed under Economics, The Crisis

Tags: Arnold Kling, Daniel Gross, Derek Thompson, Economics, Financial Crisis, James Kwak, Justin Fox, Kevin Drum, Matthew Yglesias, Meg Marco, Naked Capitalism, New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, The Consumerist, Time, Zachery Kouwe

August 31, 2009

Cohabitators, Homosexuals, And Fornicators, Oh My!

College thesis in the news

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Filed under Families, Feminism, Political Figures

Tags: Washington Post, Steve Benen, Reihan Salam, Ramesh Ponnuru, The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Ezra Klein, Talking Points Memo, National Review, Politico, Kevin Drum, Redstate, Feminism, Families, Political Figures, Ben Smith, Human Events, Erick Erickson, Jim Geraghty, Will, Hanna Rosin, Legal Insurrection, Wonkette, Gateway Pundit, Eric Kleefeld, Double X, Amy Gardner, Christian Toto

August 31, 2009

He Thought He Was The King Of America, Where They Pour Coca Cola Just Like Vintage Wine

American royals

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Filed under Families, Go Meta

Tags: Adam Sewer, Andrew Sullivan, Dan Riehl, Families, Glenn Greenwald, Go Meta, James Joyner, Jules Crittenden, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tapped, Wonkette

August 30, 2009

What We’ve Built This Weekend

To update or not to update: ’tis a really stupid question

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August 30, 2009

The First Rule Of The Conservative Movement Is That Everyone Gets Read Out Of The Conservative Movement, Eventually

Reagan not a conservative?

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Filed under Books, Conservative Movement, Go Meta

Tags: Andy McCarthy, Books, Conservative Movement, Daily Beast, Daniel McCarthy, Front Porch Republic, Go Meta, James Piereson, James Poulos, Jon Meacham, Lee Siegel, Mark T. Mitchell, National Review, Newsweek, Peter Lawler, Postmodern Conservative, Richard Gamble, Sam Tanenhaus, The American Conservative, The New Criterion