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Wednesday, March 15. 2006

Wednesday Coffee-Break Links

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How Chavez is helping the Colombian economy by destroying his own: Publius

The War amongs the Pacifists: I always believed that the Leftist Pacifists have the goal of being subjugated by anybody, in the hope that things would be better, somehow. Neo-Neo

A nice cheerful rant against teacher's unions.

Hitchens does Flashman: Part James Bond, part Bertie Wooster: Good stuff.

The You Can't Make This Up Department: Graffiti at DePaul leads to prayer session. What idiots.

A few blogs I have come to enjoy lately:

Rantings of a Sandmonkey - entertaining Egyptian rants from a smart   
and clearly highly immature Sandmonkey

Always good for a laugh, even if a laugh of despair for the Commonwealth: MassBackwards

Legal Beagles: Overlawyered is worth a regular read. Orin Kerr has a new blog - a spin-off from Volokh.

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You Maggie's Farmers might want to respond to this piece:

http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=0078

You hardly ever discuss Iraq - why is that? I think your readers would appreciate a thoughtful analysis/reflection on the biggest policy issue of the last 10 years. Thank you.
#1 Anonymous on 2006-03-15 10:45 (Reply)
a few reasons:
1. everybody else talks about it
2. it's a minor war - more of an extended police action -which will be over soon, if it isnt already over
3. it's boring

but we'll try to do better
#2 bird dog on 2006-03-15 11:16 (Reply)

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