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Tag Archives: Weekly Standard
Media Mattis
Tuesday’s dead-tree New York Times piece about new CentCom commander James Mattis: Petraeus’s Successor Is Admired on Front Lines, but Known for Impolitic Words WASHINGTON — To those who have served under him, Gen. James N. Mattis is the consummate Marine … Continue reading
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Tagged Gen. James Mattis, New York Times, The Scrapbook, Weekly Standard
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Columbia’s Gem
From our Late To The Party desk: Friday New York Times headline (dead tree edition): Victory for Columbia In Eminent Domain Suit Lede: New York’s highest court handed Columbia University a major victory on Thursday for its $6.3 billion plan to build … Continue reading
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Tagged Columbia University, Elaine Kagan, eminent domain, Harlem, Kelo, satellite campus, Supreme Court, Weekly Standard
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Cass Distinction
From our Forewarned Is Forearmed desk: The New York Times Magazine cover story this Sunday features Cass Sunstein, director of “the White House’s little-known Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs” and a leading apostle of behavioral economics, the “libertarian paternalism” … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Ferguson, behavioral economics, Cass Sunstein, New York Times, Nudge, nudge-ocracy, Weekly Standard
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The Weakly Standard
Leave it to the neocon newsletter to imply that it had eight – count ’em, eight – writers assigned to the Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-Drop Dead Gorgeous) beat. In reality, only three pieces (here, here, and here) actually dealt … Continue reading
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Tagged Drop Dead Gorgeous, neocon newsletter, Scott Brown, Weekly Standard
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The Weakly Standard
The current edition of The Weekly Standard includes a piece headlined, “The Facilitating Leaks Act.” Lede: The title of the legislation is innocent enough: the Free Flow of Information Act. The motivation behind it is a seemingly worthy one. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Free Flow of Information Act, Standardniks, Weekly Standard
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Grand Old Party Poopers?
The (left-leaning) mainstream media would have you believe that the Republican party is engaged in an ideological civil war. So said The Weekly Standard recently in a Scrapbook entry headlined “A Dysfunctional GOP?” Nut graf: A supposed civil war in … Continue reading
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Tagged Dysfunctional GOP, Lindsey Graham, New York Times, Weekly Standard
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Fun Facts to Know and Tell Update
More fun facts about medical malpractice, this time from a recent Weekly Standard editorial: Studies of the effects of [defensive] medicine put its price tag at a minimum of $100 billion a year and probably more than $200 billion . … Continue reading
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
Finally got around to reading “The Cocktail Renaissance” by Robert Messenger in the August 3rd edition of The Weekly Standard. It’s a little arcane for me – witness this bit of business early on in the piece: We’ve forgotten where … Continue reading
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