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http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2010/12/charles-krauthammer-is-the-fraud/ Dear Mr. Crook, Mr. Krauthammer has set the level of debate at the level of the schoolyard taunt and you have followed suit. ‘Stupid Democrats’ has the intellectual patina of Mr. Thomas Friedman’s ‘suck on this’. A  strategy  that … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/opinion/12rich.html?_r=1&hp# Frank Rich is an indispensable ethical voice in American civic life! 

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/soft-drinks-sandwiches-and-kleptocrats/?src=twt&twt=NytimesKrugman An American Public Intellectual with the cosmopolitan courage and understanding that an artist, too, has the capacity and the obligation, through their work, to illuminate all aspects of the human endeavor. That Mr. Krugman has the sagacity to remind … Continue reading →

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Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court and the law.

By Ashby Jones From where we sit, the most interesting component of the most interesting Supreme Court case of the term — McDonald v. Chicago — involves this Privileges or Immunities Clause issue.

http://www.youtube.com/v/CIfEw1V8_Ls?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata via politifact.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120904472.html  Here is The Good Doctor (TGD) doing his Peronist caudillo turn, for our intellectual edification! The aimless political world needs the interpretive brio of our little authoritarian, to explain the political prestidigitation, of the master politician Barack Obama, who … Continue reading →