Beer, Boots and the GOP Base

May 15, 2011 By

I always figured I appreciated a tragic female — Mary, Queen of Scots, the Black Dahlia, Edie Sedgwick — as much as the next ghoul. But when it comes to Sarah Palin, I seem to have overlooked a deep seam of tragedy that my colleagues in the Fourth Estate have been mining for years. Quite [...]

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A World Without Bin Laden

May 2, 2011 By

What’s it going to look like? More to the point, what’s in it for us? How much safer can we expect to be? In Slate, David Byman sounds a note of cautious optimism. Without bin Laden’s “star power” to help in raising funds, al-Qaeda and its affiliates will suffer a significant hit in the finance [...]

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Live Birtherism!

May 1, 2011 By

Even though President Obama released his long-form birth certificate on Wednesday, America’s favorite conspiracy theory is clinging — bitterly clinging, the president might say — to life by its fingernails. Less than two hours after the document appeared on the internet, the Drudge Report posted a link to the blog of Bryan Michael Nixon, art [...]

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