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from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  October's most popular posts - and a first appearance on Technorati 100
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?
-Doris Lessing, in Martha Quest (1952)

What of October, indeed. Well, around here October was the month Jon Stewart took on Crossfire and Colby Cosh lost his regular gig at the Post. (He's still ...   more »
View Article  Perhaps I was all wrong on this Internet thing ...
For a long time, I was a firm believer in what University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein argued in his 2001 book Republic.com : That the Internet is a great example of narrow-casting and that that's bad for democracy. Sunstein's book was, I thought, a good start for the ...   more »
View Article  U.S. troop deployment -- now and then
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., says it has put a database online that lets users examine where and how many U.S. troops were deployed around the world since 1950.
The Foundation found the following:
-On average, more than a fifth of all U.S. ...   more »
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