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July 4th, 2008 in Featured Posts by Rider Strong

Off the Road

With gas prices soaring, Bush and McCain are trying to push the oil agenda again. It’s a very simple (i.e., simplistic) argument: you’re paying too much for gas so you should allow them to drill for more […]

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July 2nd, 2008 in Featured Posts by Hillel Aron

Altered States

I had a history professor who once said, matter-of-factly, “No one really believes in states rights — they just use it as a soft way of making an argument.” In other words, if you’re a racist and you want to argue against integration without sounding like a racist, you say that integration should be left up to the states.

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June 25th, 2008 in Featured Posts by Rider Strong

Looking Forward

My father was a Marine pilot in the Vietnam War. A couple of years ago, members of his unit contacted him.

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June 23rd, 2008 in Featured Posts by Hillel Aron

Screw Public Financing!

On Thursday, to the surprise of pretty much nobody, Barack Obama decided to opt out of public financing for the general election.

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June 20th, 2008 in Featured Posts by Hillel Aron

War Ink

The trailer for War, Inc. was all over the place. And indeed, so is the film, playing as a sloppy mix of hyper-kinetic farce, on-the-nose political satire, and Gen-X dark comedy.

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