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Whether One Agrees Or Disagrees With The Tactics Of The Occupy Wall Street Movement, It's Easy To Understand The Inspiration For Its Anger As Well As Its Impatience.

If Bloggers Are To Improve Our Public Discourse - Helping Busy And Usually Uninformed People Make Sense Of The World - It Is Necessary To Use Some Sort Of Standard With Which To Judge Their Reliability. Perhaps The Answer (strictly Advisory) Is A Body Of Their Peers. Perhaps Not.

The War On Terrorism Was A Bait And Switch Operation.

Much Of What Tea Party Candidates Claimed About The World And The Global Economy During The 2010 Elections Would Have Earned Their Adherents A Well-deserved F In Any Freshman Economics (or Earth Science) Class.

Ever Since Richard Nixon Walloped George Mcgovern In The Presidential Election Of 1972, Political Pundits Have Treated As A Truism The Proposition That Liberals Are Out Of Step With The Rest Of The Nation, And Therefore All But Unelectable Outside The Precincts Of The Northeast -- Give Or Take A College Town Here Or A Ski Resort There. During The Course Of Every Presidential Election For The Past Forty Years Now, Republicans Have Sought To Wield The Word Liberal As If It Were A Six-gauge Shotgun.