In Other News, Matt Damon Wants Us to Know About his Bowel Movements, and Justin Bieber is Kind of a Punk.

So Matt Damon seems to have just found out that not everyone in the world has access to a flush toilet. His response, well then he won’t use one either, then.  Apparently until johns are provided for the 2.5 billion people who lack them. “Does anybody have any idea what invention has saved more lives than… Read More In Other News, Matt Damon Wants Us to Know About his Bowel Movements, and Justin Bieber is Kind of a Punk.

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The Civil War Has Begun

So Sayeth Breibart. What Karl Rove and company did last week in the New York Times, claiming that their new “Conservative Victory Project” would cure the ills of a disappointing campaign cycle, is laughable. The so-called “Conservative Victory Project” is nothing more than an attempt by establishment Republicans to cull the conservative movement. Why does Rove think he has… Read More The Civil War Has Begun

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Moats dug round Chinese villagers’ houses to drive them out

 This is the Kind of thing you expect to read about in Dickensian portraits of 19th-century capitalism. Yangji village in the southeastern city of Guangzhou has reportedly existed for some 900 years. As China’s economy exploded and the port city’s population ballooned to more than 12 million, real estate developers moved in and Yangji’s 4,000 residents found… Read More Moats dug round Chinese villagers’ houses to drive them out

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Rand Paul Suggests the Containment Strategy for Islamic Terror

It’s not a bad idea. Containment was more than just a military strategy; it was a holistic assessment of the weakness of the Soviet Union, an assessment that turned out, on the whole, to be right. In Kennan’s famous X article he argues that containment meant the “application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical… Read More Rand Paul Suggests the Containment Strategy for Islamic Terror

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