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Adrenaline-junkie behavior is rampant in the current occupant of the White House and his staff: “…Behind the scenes, it was even worse. The night before Obama announced the administration’s housing plan on Feb. 18 in Arizona, Sperling e-mailed the final documents at 3 a.m. and asked for comments. Five people responded immediately. Martin Moore-Ede, a former Harvard [...]

“Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object.”

“Experience by itself proves nothing. If a man doubts whether he is dreaming or waking, no experiment can solve his doubt, since every experiment may be itself part of the dream. Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it.”

Can’t say that I blame them.

“Everything that you are about to read might be wrong. Roll Call’s annual attempt to rank the riches of Members of Congress is hampered by one fundamental flaw: It is based on the lawmakers’ financial disclosure forms, which are extraordinarily unreliable sources of information…”

Of course this only makes sense given the history of the Civil War, but for some reason reading this took me aback. Some residual public school/media conditioning still held some slight sway, I guess. With this, there’s less now than there was yesterday.

“A Former Radical Muslim Reveals Secrets All Christians Must Know.”

Babs Boxer is harassing one of the precious few non-lawyers in our supposedly representative government [Last time I checked, though, our society was not made up of 97% lawyers, thank God]. How is discouraging a doctor from delivering babies of poor families at no cost not the behavior of a de facto eugenicist?