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In January, President Obama gave a speech at the Justice Department that was basically an acknowledgement that the shady ex-girlfriend stuff that the NSA has been doing to Americans, like going through our phone records and mining our internet activity, was indeed pretty damn shady. He promised, in that vague way that politicians do, to […]

In 2014 we are used to stories that have neatly-defined, if contradicting narratives, and which resolve themselves relatively quickly, fading into the ether. Which is what makes the story of the Malaysia Airlines flight that has been missing for a week such an engrossing one. The narratives are muddled, the experts all seem to be […]

Washington runs on many things-power, bureaucracy, and the frenzied exchange of business cards, to name a few-but if there’s one resource we have more of than any other city in America, it’s outrage. True, most of Washington’s outrage is utterly insincere, offered up in an attempt to get people angry at one’s political opponents over […]

You might think, given the country’s general secular drift, that Bible epics would not be Hollywood’s latest cash cow. And you would, of course, be wrong. This year, no less than four movies (loosely) based on Biblical stories will appear in theaters near you. The deluge began last month with Son of God, a feature-length […]

President Obama’s plot to turn the United States into a paradise for the proletariate is going precisely as planned. According to a survey conducted by the Gallup organization last month, the percentage of Americans without insurance has dropped to 15.9 percent-the lowest rate since 2008. Left-leaning analysts like The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent are cautioning […]