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(The original version of this was ambiguous. This is the new! improved! version.) When you're near-broke, and having money problems,...

I wonder if Ebola is being kept in the news partly to distract the public from the election. With lower voter attention comes lower turnout...

When there are terrorists in charge of both sides of a fight.

As a result of difficulties explaining my previous remarks over at Balloon Juice, I have this thought: I think what I am writing about in t...

I recently wrote an exasperated reply to a libertarian friend some time back, explaining that Social Security and Medicare do not enrich the...

The equation is simple: Those who have power get to censor, and those who lack power get silenced. If you find yourself in a position to dem...

Contains spoilers for the 1977 Racoona Sheldon story, "The Screwfly Solution." If you want to avoid them, don't click on the l...