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Here's What China Thinks of the 1st Amendment

Evan Osnos offers very sharp observations at the New Yorker about China's hacking of the New York Times.Among other points:

He's Got a Little List

Who on earth numbers the following among its enemies?

The Not So Different Contraceptive Mandate

The Obama administration is enacting changes to the ACA in order toclarifywhich religious institutions will be exempt from paying for women's contraception. The new policy broadens the exemption of a religious institution that is a "house of worship," by adding groups that do charitable work for the public. This announcement, however, is not too different than the administration has been hinting for some time:

Kids With Guns: Must We Live Like This?

There surely are cases where a "good guy" with a gun saves the day by shooting a "bad guy." However, the most tragic gun incidents are those where the "bad guy" turns out to be a kid with weak impulse control. It's a pretty poor outcome for society and humanity if our only way to prevent and dissuade him (or her) is by shooting him down after he's already shot one or two people. Fortunately, yesterday's gun-fight at an Atlanta middle school ended w...

Why Chuck Hagel is Wrong on Israel

Jeffrey Goldberg dismantles Chuck Hagel's view that the Israel/Palestine conflict, like a "stone dropped into a placid lake," is an unsettling force for the entire region:

The Marine Response to Women in Combat

What do Marines worry about if and when women enter all combat roles?

Cato's Bloody Example

Barry Strauss reviews Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni's Rome's Last Citizen for City Journal. The similarities between Cato's world and our own are striking. (David's book club review of Rome's Last Citizen here.)

The Difference a Gun Makes

Violent rampage in Vancouver. The suspect was carrying only a knife, however, and so while seven were injured, none was killed.

Limbaugh: Difference Between Cubans and Mexicans is...

During Rush Limbaugh's radio program on Wednesday, he made one of his infamous and rambunctious rants, this time saying that within the hispanic community, Mexican workers were somehow lazier than their Cuban counterparts.

A Few Questions About the Right to Vote

Very much enjoyed Jamelle Bouie's call for a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. It may well be necessary, and I'm not one to instantly bag on putting rights into writing.