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Panetta At CIA 
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Way, way better than Brennan, and, significantly, detached from the torture regime and its apparatus in a way that anyone involved in the CIA in the last eight years would not be. As my colleague Marc Ambinder just said, the man who has had every job in Washington now has the most thankless task in Was
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Blogosphere PSA
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Dan Drezner, Marc Lynch, Tom Ricks, David Rothkopf, and Stephen Walt have fancy new digs at Foreign Policy.
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The Downturn Diet
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Appleyard reports on the recession's silver lining: The strange thing is that people get healthier in a
recession, according to Chris Ruhm, an economics professor at the University
of North Carolina. Some years ago he decided to test the conventional wisdom
that hard times
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Win-Win
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Krauthammer proposes a gas tax, balanced by a payroll tax reduction. Joe Klein applauds:Krauthammer is, not surprisingly, more sympathetic to the national security arguments for higher gasoline prices than the env
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Some Data Points
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
This is instructive:In 2002, at the height of the second intifada, more than 1,000
Palestinians were killed, compared with about 400 Israelis. In the past
eight days of war, more than 460 Palestinians were killed, and four
Israelis died by rock
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Distinctions
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Conor goes out on a limb and makes one:Hamas is a despicable organization. That it triumphed in an election
speaks very poorly of the Palestinian polity. But that is different
from saying that everyone voted for Hamas because they want to blow
themselves up in an Israeli disc
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Proportionality And Terror
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Noah Pollak asked me to provide some framework for a discussion of proportionality and just war theory with respect to the Israeli attack on Gaza. In re-reading my Catechism and brushing up on just war theory, I am struck first of all by how alien the context seems for the current war. The asymmetric nature
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Resist The Executive!
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
On cue as a Democrat becomes president, John Bolton and war criminal John Yoo rediscover their conservatism.
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Another Suicide Bombing
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Today's atrocity claimed at least 40 lives, mainly Shiite pilgrims. Over 24 tribal leaders were massacred by one of their own in a suicide bomb attack Friday. On December 27, a car bomb killed 24. So in the last
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Words To Live By
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
"You can go back to your, what do you call it, your Google, and you figure out all that," - president George H.W. Bush on the catastrophe of his son's presidency.
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Children, Sickness And Parents
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
The possibility - and we do not know for sure - that John Travolta refused his son anti-seizure medication raises broader questions of what responsibilities parents have to the bodies of their children. We rightly understand sexual abuse to be horrifying and a legitimate reason to intervene. But with
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Conservatism And Gay Couples
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
In the US, one of the striking aspects of the Republican rump is its insistence that one of only a handful of defining policies is its opposition to marriage rights for gays. Joe Carter recently argued that it was inconceivable that conservatives could support such a thing, or that a conservative case can be made for it. If that is true, then the British Tories are
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Aliens
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
I think Glenn Greenwald - who has less fear than any journalist I know in Washington - is onto something important here:Those who giddily support not just civilian deaths in Gaza
but every actual and proposed attack on Arab/Muslim countries -- from
the war in Iraq to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon to
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To Put It Mildly
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
I have to say the online discussions of whether the "conservative" movement has the right institutions, think-tanks or online skills to compete with Obamania seems misplaced to me. You can have the best set of think-tanks in the world and still be useless in the face of a Republican administration determined to combine the worst foreign policy utopianism of the left with the worst soc
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From Travolta's Biographer
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
An explanation:In private, [John] and Kelly were always very practical and
positive about Jett’s health. They put him on a detoxification
programme and encouraged his love of the outdoors, of sports, swimming,
cycling and hiki
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Life As Language
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
Patrick Tucker searches for the essence of morality:According to Hauser, the human brain learns right from wrong the same way it learns language. The vast majority of the world’s languages share at least one thing in common: a system of guidelines for usage. This is called grammar. Just as languages have rules ab
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The Missiles They Used
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
This may help explain some of what is going on:
The Israel Air Force used a new bunker-buster missile that it received recently from the United States in strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday [last week].
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Freedom In Massachusetts
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Sat, 03 Jan. 2009
After decriminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana, some police are refusing even to enforce the new civil law, because it's too much hassle for too little reward and, in their view, unenforceable. There's a certain whininess inv
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