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  • Why the killing of Mark Carson matters

    Mark Carson was shot in the face because he’s gay.

  • Photos All of a sudden, tea partyers take issue with profiling

    Pretend you work at the Internal Revenue Service. Actually, let’s make this exercise even more terrible. Pretend you’re an underpaid, low-level clerk working in the understaffed IRS backwater of Cincinnati. Every day, a big stack of files lands on your desk.

  • Redacted truth and some subjunctive outrage

    Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don’t know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn’t meet presidency-breaking standards. Third, focusing on the political effects simply plays into the hands of Democrats desperately claiming that this is nothing but partisan politics.

  • Whether malevolence or misfeasance, IRS stepped in it

    Well, this is a fine mess.

  • Someone needs to turn the tables and audit the IRS

    Suppose that the Environmental Protection Agency were to admit offhandedly that the fluoridation of water had only modest communist mind-control effects. Or the United Nations were to concede it has been running fleets of black helicopters over American cities, but only in the course of conducting extensive goodwill tours.

  • A good person caught in the political crossfire

    Twenty years ago, when she was a young Foreign Service officer in Moscow, Victoria Nuland gave me a dazzling briefing on the diverse factions inside the Russian parliament. Now she is a friend I typically see a couple of times a year, at various functions, and I have watched her rise, working with everybody from Dick Cheney to Hillary Rodham Clinton, serving as ambassador to NATO, and now as the spokeswoman at the State Department.

  • America’s military injustice can’t be perpetuated

    Along with a boosted Buick LeSabre, another incident listed on a crime report Sunday in Arlington County, Va., was a creepy attack by a man on a woman.

  • Immigration reform opponents are after control

    The opponents of immigration reform have many small complaints, but they really have one core concern. It’s about control. America doesn’t control its borders. Past reform efforts have not established control. Current proposals wouldn’t establish effective control.

  • Austerity serves only to drive economy into recession

    At this point the economic case for austerity — for slashing government spending even in the face of a weak economy — has collapsed. Claims that spending cuts would actually boost employment by promoting confidence have fallen apart. Claims that there is some kind of red line of debt that countries dare not cross have turned out to rest on fuzzy and to some extent just plain erroneous math.

  • Syrian intervention: Some questions to ponder

    For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions:

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