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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Sadly, Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota underwent a stroke while speaking with journalists this afternoon. This has cued plenty of wistful skylarkings about ‘the balance of power in the Senate’ being up for grabs, since, should Johnson’s seat go…
Senator Bill Nelson, who is not an appointed representative. With Assad. (Reuters/Sana) When the United States transacts politics with other sovereign states, it has one face and one voice: President Bush, or any plenipotentiary he may choose. No matter how…
Durham County district attorney Mike Nifong, who has conducted a many-ways illegal crusade against the Duke University lacrosse team, is coming under the microscope of North Carolina congressman Walter Jones, who is urging the Department of Justice to take up…
For those interested, the Academic Blog Portal is a new wiki that attempts to catalog and link to all the blogs in the academy. A nice idea, and I see that under the Dartmouth entry, this humble page is already…
In a throwaway one-line post yesterday afternoon, I used the expression “the damn thing,” as in, “I created the whole damn thing because I was hoping we’d have grammar and vocabulary debates.” I was referring to Power Line Forum, the…
The Chronicle of Higher Education has just published a capital essay by Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University, called “How Academe Shortchanges Conservative Thinking.” (The article is only temporarily in front of the pay wall. For a PDF…

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