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Body Politic

Spy Agency to the Rescue

November 05, 2013

If the NSA snoops on everyone, and no one knows enough to complain, does it still make a stink?

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Citizen Keynes

October 22, 2013

To modern eyes, economics may seem sociopathically amoral, if not deeply immoral. That’s an unfortunate, though forgivable, association. A pernicious glorification of wealth has attached itself to the discipline, crowding out its deeper moral ideas.

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October 22, 2013

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My Old Kentucky Home

October 08, 2013

How a party irrationally committed to the sabotage of a secret, socialist scheme to make Americans live longer could possibly seem unworthy of respect befuddles Rep. Stutzman. Better that the government remain closed and the Treasury careen towards default while Speaker Boehner figures out what goody bag he can scrape up to appease the Tea Party.

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The Moral Crusaders

September 24, 2013

Granted, some insanities are worse than others. Casual conspiracy theorists are a tolerable mainstay of nearly every Thanksgiving dinner after all. It’s less amusing when loony Uncle Bobby is elected to Congress (Louie Gohmert, I’m looking at you).

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