Archive for August, 2007

Meet Rudy

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

“Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.” Rudy Giuliani occasionally looks like a reasonable man. He’s [...]

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Patterns

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Sorry in advance for being depressing first thing in the morning. Pakistan’s president cancels a meeting with Afghanistan’s president about trouble along their border–but is it because Musharraf can’t stand Karzai, or because he’s afraid of losing power if he’s out of the capital? A US warship arrives in the Ukraine to conduct operations with [...]

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