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Invitation to Tea

I'm on a lot of Repug mailing lists because when I was teaching at IU, my son got his first deployment to Iraq.  I was plenty hacked off and did a lot of lobbying about foreign policy.I was kind of...

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More Tea? No Thanks, I'm Sane

National Review on line is joining in the eulogizing of Nelson Mandela.This reminds me once more of the differences between mainstream conservatives and the Tea Party. The former are not impervious to...

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How Did I Miss That? Anti-Gay Catholics and Chinese Sex Toys

It's that time of the week again, when I beg my Kossack friends to click over to How Did I Miss That? and forward it to others.Reason being, I get to keep doing it as long as it brings in eyeballs and...

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Wrong Kind of Republican Catches On

I've been repeating myself since 2009, although only recently on this forum, with my Mr. Natural criticism of the Fed, "you got to use the proper tool for the job," tempered by the realization that you...

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For Texans Only

I don't make a practice of passing on stuff out of pols' newsletters, but I think this from Sen. Kirk Watson is kind of important (Watson does not represent me, more's the pity, I'm just on his...

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Indians and Issue Salience

While it's not as much fun as my weekly conversations with Cousin Ray Sixkiller, I do still get to write op-eds. This one is a bit Indian-centric and so not of interest to all Kossacks, but I always...

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Social Science as a Snipe Hunt: Marriage Equality

Sometimes social science is like a snipe hunt, just stumbling through the dark with a sack in your hand yelling "Here, snipe!"Is X a good idea?First, you must state a hypothesis why it is or is not a...

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How Did I Miss That? Bob Dylan's "Hate Crime"; Yoda Lives!

It's that time of the week again when I come here to Kos and beg for clicks and forwards and likes and all that good cyber-stuff so I can keep having the most fun I've had since I retired, at least the...

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Disenrollment is a Disaster

My Kossack friends know that I am not shy about begging for clicks if I really need them, and I want to report to those people who clicked on my humor column, "How Did I Miss That?", that it appears...

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I'm Gonna Be Sick

This just in from Liz Cheney:Friend -- outside groups have begun invading Wyoming. Just recently a shadowy, out-of-state Super PAC launched a dishonest smear campaign to distort my record. And the...

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How Did I Miss That? Beyonce' Evades the NSA; Batman Takes Austin!

It's that time again when I normally come here to beg for clicks and forewords and likes & etc. I must confess that it's become less urgent now.  I've been hired to continue this.  It remains my...

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Mr. Snowden's Conversation

My students did not value privacy as I did, but they also did not hold stuff against people that my generation would.Privacy is either a freestanding value or it is not. The concept cannot be linked to...

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How Did I Miss That? Bieber Mystery; Duck Flap; Credit Cards Targetted

It's that time of week again, when I ask people to click over to How Did I Miss That? and forward and like and all that good stuff that assures this retired guy gets to continue living out his Will...

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Lawsuit Abuse or March Toward Justice?

Bias out front: I'm a sports fan but not a fan of the NCAA.I consider so-called student athletes to be an exploited working class on one hand and a pampered elite not called upon for normal scholastic...

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Justice Sotomayor has a Preexisting Condition!

That is, she's female.Justice Sotomayor signed a temporary stay of the Obamacare mandate to cover birth control as applied to a community of nuns who claimed they don’t need or want birth control and...

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Thoughts on the Apple Harvest

This is, once more, an op-ed that will be of more interest to American Indian Kossacks than others.  Ray Sixkiller will be along tomorrow for a more general audience.I lack the HTML chops to insert the...

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Privacy Malfunctions

Confession: I clicked though a list of over 150 "celebrity wardrobe malfunctions." It took a little over 5 minutes, to give you some idea of the degree of attention.Conclusions:Well over 100 of the...

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How Did I Miss That? Jennifer Lawrence Wows Jack Nicholson; Pot Wows CO

It's Friday and so he's baaack.Please go visit my Cousin Ray Sixkiller and then, if you can do so in good conscience, like and forward.Thankyouverymuch.

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Legislating Blind is Customary

This op-ed appears at Indian Country Today Media Network, but it is not Indian-centric.It is part one of a two parter about ALEC, and I think it will interest lots of Kossacks.While I'm speaking...

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It's Still Christmas in Fallujah

It's been a couple of hours since I read in the Sunday New York Times that Al Qaeda is now in possession of Fallujah, and there's still a knot in my stomach that won't go away.  The tears have eased...

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