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My weekly article is up at The Free Liberal.
It had to be written up in article form.

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Seems other people are concerned about Conservative power besides David Brooks.
I know more about Derbyshire than Ponnuru, though Ponnuru gets lumped in with Brooks’s Reformers.
But I prefer Ponnuru to Brooks.
We’ll just leave it at that.

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Have you read “The Article” yet?
One thing is clear from it: Brooks sees Conservatism as a group, not a belief system.
Thus, the survival of the group is more important to him than whether the group is right about what “it” believes.
Conservatives should change not because they are wrong, but because they can’t win if they [...]

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It’s article time once again over at The Free Liberal.
Today, I’m arguing that the common good and equality are at odds for our government, and that they might just have to start bailing out religions.

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Missouri has still not been called.  Take a look at the map, and have a good, quizzical, scientific chuckle.
I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah. -Abe Simpson

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(I think the “w” in “Without” should be lower-case, but it was late when I titled the article.)
My latest article is up at The Free Liberal.
In it, I wish for everyone’s sake that the Dems had gotten to 60 votes in the Senate.
And that is confusing.

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A County-by-County Vote Map

Looks very red.
Which, given the fact that Obama actually won, tells me that when people get together in large groups, they become Democrats.  When they spread themselves out, they become Republicans.
I guess.

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There is something to be happy about, after all.

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The Wife was musing aloud earlier this evening about the bizarre nature of the roughly 50-50 split on votes (when choosing between a Republican and a Democrat) overall here in the States.
Is this normal? she asked.
My theory is that it’s some kind of proof of randomness, and that the only way it is possible for [...]

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“Trash of the Titans” (season 9, episode 22)

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