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March 25, 2013
David Cameron Loses Tim Montgomerie
Wow. Like Lyndon Johnson losing Walter Cronkite over Vietnam, it's big news that David Cameron has lost Tim Montgomerie: Conservative intellectual-activist, founder of the popular ConservativeHome website, and newly appointed comment editor of the London Times.
The Republican Party Enters Its Own McGovern Era
More thoughts on this after Passover, but for now … just read it and weep. Andy Kohut, director of Pew's public opinion program, summarizes his polling of the huge gap between the Republican rank-and-file and everybody else in the country.
To Honor Canada Hosting Two Giant Pandas, Here's Ten Beautiful Photos of Pandas
China has sent two giant pandas for a 10 year visit at two Canadian zoos, Toronto first, Calgary second.
End Big Sugar's Government Handouts
The Wall Street Journal reported late last week that a group of Senators were working to initiate the process of cutting government subsidies for corporate sugar.
How Do We Fix Straight Marriage?
From my CNN column: the marriage crisis of the 21st century isn't that gay couples want to get married. It's that straight couples aren't marrying.
The First Seder is Tonight
In honor of the first Seder tonight, a re-link to a tough review by Leon Weiseltier of a new translation of the Passover Haggadah.
Who Killed Paul Klebnikov?
In the early 1990s, I worked at Forbes magazine, occupying the very next office to Paul Klebnikov, a reporter who specialized in the story of Russia's market opening (as we then hoped it would be). Paul spoke Russian, cared passionately about the country. When Forbes launched a Russian-language edition, Paul was the natural choice to head it. In Russia, Paul showed himself as fearless and energetic as in New York City. Only … in Russia, those qualities in a journalist marked a man for sa...
March 24, 2013
Ten Amazing Faces Painted on Buildings in Russia
Maybe Russia is cool after all. From the blog
Nomerz
, ten amazing photos of buildings painted to look like graffiti faces.
Rapists Don't Deserve Our Sympathy
In Canada's Globe & Mail, Tabatha Southey responds from the heart to the bizarre media coverage of the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case. No, the rapists are not the people deserving of sympathy here.
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