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Thinking as a Wonk

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This guy Matt Drudge is linking to says human beings soon will live 1,000 years or longer. We really, really have to get going on Social Security reform ...
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Do They Not Bleed?

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I was glad to see this conclusion to John Fund's excellent Wall Street Journal piece on the Harriet Miers nomination today: The damage to [President Bush's] relations with his conservative base would blow over quickly if Mr. Bush were to ...
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LiLPoH: Icing the Cake

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Jack Rich says the support of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-in-Polite-Conservative-Circles for Harriet Miers is just "icing on the cake" for her opponents. Increasingly, that's hard to argue ...
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Nuts and Sluts: North County Reviewed by Power Line

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Regarding the Anita Hill "nuts and sluts" reference John Hinderaker is wondering about on Power Line this evening as he previews the film North County: The reference presumably is to David Brock's 1992 description of Anita Hill as "a little ...
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Vote on Bridge to Nowhere

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KTVA Anchorage has posted a poll: Are you for or against the bridges? No registration, nor local residency, is required to vote. The "bridges," of course, refers to the Congressional allocation of $452 million in tax funds for two bridges ...
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Trafalgar 200: “England Expects That Every Man Shall Do His Duty”

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Two hundred years ago today, 27 ships of the British Navy under the command of Admiral Lord Nelson won a decisive victory at the Battle of Trafalgar over a combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships. 22 French and ...
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Internal Washington Post E-Mails Show Paper Editors Wary of Web Success

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Based on these internal e-mails, it looks like some editors at the Washington Post dead tree edition aren't very happy that the web version of the Post is doing well. The web version, apparently, is outside their control. It's also ...
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Congressional Action: Hurricane Katrina Relief Problems

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On October 21, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) shared on the Senate floor a summary of a diary kept by a constituent who observed serious command and control problems during Hurricane Katrina relief operations: Mr. President, I rise to discuss the ...
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Stop Congressional Spending Now

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Mark Tapscott is covering the Senate reaction to Tom Coburn's anti-pork amendments, while Power Line reports that Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) is threatening Senators who vote against pork. At about the same time as the Senate vote, a new "Stop ...
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Fred Barnes on Childish Conservatives

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Fred Barnes had to know his criticism of conservative Bush critics as "in some ways childish" (especially as he had it published in a conservative journal and declined to back up the insult with examples), would create at least a ...
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