Moderate drinkers make me jealous.

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A socialist–even a French one–calling for an armed strike against Iran should surprise no one. I hate to burst the limousine left’s bubble on college campuses yet again, but socialist regimes have a storied history of belligerent military actions. Just like our history. That green grass on the other side looks a lot like bullshit […]

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I’d let Iran’s President visit ground zero as long as he shaved beforehand. During solemn moments in this country, we demand that our men shave and somehow act manly while emasculating themselves at the same time.

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The reality program “Kid Nation” violates child labor laws, as do most Hollywood sets, as do most youth-oriented Broadway productions, as do the janjaweed and private preschools in midtown.  

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Will Jefferson, Louisiana Congressman caught with 100-grand from a lobbyist in his freezer last year and awating trial, did some expert PR yesterday by bussing himself down to Jena, LA to protest the biased sentencing of five black youths. Words to live by: work from your strengths, no matter how obvious.

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The Academy of American Poets lost Paul Auster to mystery novels. They should bring him back into the fold before he keels over.

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Andre Dubus and Dave Eggers take short fiction out of its doldrums, Dubus because he doesn’t force his naturalism and Eggers because he doesn’t force his syntactical hijinks. I, however, do precisely that. Witness the preceding.

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Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, functionally illiterate, had his most trusted advisers read his security briefs out loud. His regime fell before craigslist, but I can imagine his aides posting ads on the site for readers if he remained in power.

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The Boston Globe reviews a lot of techno in its arts section. I don’t know how many middle-aged Irish state reps. listen to techno, but I should always let people surprise me…and pick up my tab.

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Hillary will assemble a team of foreign policy realists, but Rudy will assemble a group of ideologues. Realists postpone the nuclear holocaust to generations beyond our ken. Ideologues will bring it to the front door of Gen Y’s nursing home.

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MoveOn takes a Cub Scout’s approach to a Scout Leader’s problem.

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The invasion violated international law in 2003. The occupation violates international law. An immediate withdrawal of US forces from the region allows President Bush to commit a more egregious violation of international law by attacking and occupying Iran.

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I think leftist elementary school administrators, if forced to choose, would rather prevent child obesity than child abuse. They regard obese children as lepers. They chastise parents at the poverty line for bringing home McDonald’s take-out after a double-shift. They contain masses with their rhetoric, while fiscal conservatives take care of the other end and […]

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Fred Thompson’s top donor over-billed Medicare by millions as a pharma-rep…another example of the Senator’s familiarity with big gub’ment’s “wasteful” social programs.

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Today I spoke with a young woman from Bulgaria who insisted that Montana drivers could drink beer behind the wheel. I called her to task. She said she’d seen the story on the news while studying abroad in Brazil. I suggested that news outlets in other countries distort the truth just like Fox n’ Brian […]

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