May 2013
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“President Obama raised the question of whether the long-term costs of drone...”
– Shreeya Sinha, Digital Editor, Foreign Desk, the New York Times
May 23rd
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'This...again goes to a basic fact about today’s... →
May 23rd
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May 21st
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'Too bad that Republicans don’t sing the praises...
…In fact, they did the exact opposite when the Republican administration does the exact same thing that is now at the center of the Obama scandal involving the Associated Press—that is, seizing phone records of reporters. (Please note: The issue here isn’t whether they are right or wrong. What I’m talking about is the utter hypocrisy of the G.O.P. on this matter.) Let’s take the most...
May 21st
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“I increasingly think of Obama as walking a tiny, little rope suspended across a...”
– James Fallows, at the Atlantic
May 21st
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'Americans moved to the suburbs after World War II... →
May 21st
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'...every Republican on the House Agriculture...
While less devastating than turning the program into a capped block grant to the states, which the House Republicans have previously endorsed, the cut is nearly five times the reduction approved by the Democratic-controlled Senate Agriculture Committee, which already is too much. The House bill’s cuts would end food-stamp assistance for nearly two million people, with the pain falling mainly on...
May 21st
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'For three years and more Beltway politics has... →
May 20th
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[re last night's episode of 'Mad Men'] 'Burglar... →
What the hell was that?
May 20th
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“…no real connection has been directly made between these scandals and the...”
– Andrew Sullivan, at TDD, in regard to the fact that CNN finds what Gallup does: no impact on the president’s approval ratings, even as Americans do take the current scandals seriously
May 20th
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'By suicide-bomber standards, at least, it was a... →
May 20th
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'... [there are] questions...including how Google... →
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