Fri, January 27, 2012

Ben Laden is Alive — And Playing Klezmer

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Bin Laden is dead, but Ben Laden lives on. I caught up with one, Benjamin “Ben” Laden, Pennsylvanian, bandleader, and all around good guy, to talk about the ten years he spent sharing a name with the world’s most reviled terrorist. In our first email correspondence, Ben Laden said it’s been, “an…

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Answering the Sunday Question… Where do the Obama Cabinet Members Rank?

Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Jonathan Bernstein asks a weekly question of liberals and conservatives. I’m going to try and answer him as best as I can most weeks. Here is his question for today,

Obama’s cabinet: who are the winners so far? Losers? Who do you hope will move up to a bigger job? Who do you hope will…

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Scott Walker: How One Corporate Crony Governor Will Destroy His State

Posted 11 months, 1 week ago

While Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s plan to destroy the public employee unions in his state has garnered much national attention in the last week, his assault on unions is really just one part of his three-point plan to radically alter Wisconsin. Tim Fernholz of the National Journal looks

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