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Los Angeles Times: The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Blog. One of your more erudite former athletes. Bruce Schneier: The Security Mindset. I envy it, but it’s not how my mind works. The American Prospect: The Obama Doctrine. An attempt to discern Barack Obama’s general philosophy on foreign policy. Jim Henley: Henley Everywhere 2008alt. When you were as right as he [...]

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Emily Yoffe: Forget Juno. Out-of-wedlock births are a national catastrophe. Seeming fact-based defense of marriage. I don’t have strong opinions on this either way, but it certainly seems like marriage is to be encouraged for people who would be parents. The number that stands out to me is that only 4% of mothers who are [...]

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Exposure: Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris on the photographs from Abu Ghraib in the New Yorker. Morris has a new documentary on Abu Ghraib coming out on April 25 called Standard Operating Procedure. It’s tough to believe that Donald Rumsfeld and George W Bush will never go to jail after reading this article. Marginal [...]

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The senselessness of war: A World War II German fighter pilot just learned that he shot down and killed his favorite author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wrote The Little Prince. Dave Shea on Mediatyping. Presenting the right markup for the user’s device. John McCain seems to have run into the Shiite/Sunni confusion that plagues so many [...]

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Robert Weintraub in Slate: How have the Houston Rockets won 20 games in a row? - He’s wrong about the absence of Yao helping the Rockets. The Rockets won 12 in a row with Yao before winning 8 in a row without him. I think the secret has been adding Rick [...]

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One thing that has annoyed me over the past year or so has been the persistent and perhaps willful misunderstanding of why violence is down in Iraq. There’s no question that the presence of more US soldiers has the effect of diminishing violence to a certain degree, but the real key has been co-opting the [...]

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