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Omar Khayyam (492) “What’s with your supposed zodiac?”
What’s with your supposed zodiac, then, that it is so helpful to the nasty? It bestows on them palatial baths, and mill works, and long walkways to their mansions– […]
Libya’s Elections Hold Vast Promise, Pose Hard Challenges
Libya goes to the polls on Saturday for the first time since 1965. Since in that 1965 election parties were banned, and since King Idris’s […]
States with fewest Passports most Opposed to Obamacare
Only about one third of Americans have passports, and if it weren’t for the post- September 11 requirement that one travel to Canada and Mexico […]
Romney Praised Individual Mandate in 2010
Andrew Kaczynski points out at Buzzfeed that in a 2010 interview, Mitt Romney compared his Massachusetts universal health insurance plan to that of President Obama, […]
Ghoul’s Glossary
Offshore account: Something that a gentleman creates, puts in his wife’s name, and carefully hides when he goes into politics because good breeding forbids him […]
Against War (George Washington Poster)
Real Patriotism is Recognizing the Cost for Vets of War (Jamiol Cartoon)
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The Arab World’s Fourths of July
Young Americans followed the events of 2011 in the Arab world with great interest and remarkable sympathy, such that a real difference now shows up […]
Omar Khayyam (170) “For a hand … which always grips a wine glass”
For a hand like mine, which always grips a wine glass, it would be a shame to put scripture or a rosary in it. You’re […]
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