Barry and Frankie, American president and Roman Catholic pontiff, had a nice long meeting! It was at the Vatican! They talked about poverty! (They both like to talk about that) Maybe they talked about birth control! (Barry would rather not talk much about that.) It doesn’t really matter! This might matter. Maybe. The president has […]
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So there’s a chance satellites might have found Flight 370? There’s something in the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia, anyway. Even if the 122 objects officials say are bobbing in the sea are from the missing plane, though, finding the actual crash site will be a punishing endeavor. So much for progressive taxation. A new […]
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It’s not going to help if you’re foreign statesman, but President Obama is set to propose legislation that would end the bulk collection of domestic phone records and force the National Security Agency to get judicial approval on a number-by-number basis (though a judicially approved number can be judo’d into much more information). So Edward […]
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Flight 370 went down in the southern Indian Ocean. After more than two weeks, the Malaysian government today offered that certainty about the missing airliner, relying on analyses they said have never been used on this type of search. But even if debris search crews have spotted is indeed the Boeing 777, it remains unclear […]
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In Michigan, land of my birth, a federal judge does what federal judges do these days (they outlaw gay marriage bans). And how does the Great Lakes State—where the Rainbow trout spring, muscled and lustrous, from the streams; where the wild cherries drop ripe, like succulent blood orbs, on the heads of unsuspecting children (that’s […]
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It’s the best, working as a cop in Hawaii. First it was the glamour treatment of an iconic 1968-1980 detective show. Now it’s the very vigorous defense of a little-known state law that lets police officers have legal sex with prostitutes. Turkey’s prime minister, whose 11-year grip on power is imperiled by a corruption scandal […]
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The surrender is on. Ukraine’s talking about “quickly and efficiently” pulling its troops from the Crimean Peninsula, coincidentally while Russian forces—under the guise of an annexation vote and new treaty—have been “quickly and efficiently” seizing all of Ukraine’s military bases in the region. The President of America, meanwhile, announced another round of economic sanctions against […]
