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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Or, more broadly, the paradox of "libertarians" in general:
On the one hand, they can turn a free trade agreement into "oligarchy!", a tax-funded health care system into an "Orwellian superstate!", and generally regard any democratic state that actually exists today with extreme paranoia.
On the other hand, they can speak of their candidate-of-the-hour in adulatory, messianic terms that would have embarrassed a paid flatterer at the court of Versailles.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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