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Republicans Have a Gambling Problem by Tina Dupuy We like risk and reward. The gold rush was as much a motivation to be a pioneer as was the more noted religious freedom. Poker is actually considered a sport. Yes, poker players are athletes according to the U.S. government. It’s the one sport you can train for while chain smoking in a tracksuit. But like every wine connoisseur will think they have nothing in common with a wino; we celebrate gamblers but not degenerates. We don’t like...

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Why We Need Better BS by Tom Purcell Here’s something we can do with less of in 2012: BS. It’s all over television, in magazines and in newspapers — and even in our serious papers, such as The New York Times. It is spouted by politicians and pitched by product spokesmen. Modern life is manufacturing an unprecedented amount of it. BS “is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about,” writes Harry Frankfurt, philosopher...

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Brian Fairrington, Cagle Cartoons WILL DUR$T’$ 2011 XMA$ GIFT WI$H LI$T Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Bah humbug, everybody. And I imagine that sentiment is being echoed by more than a few of you overly familiar with the soft, dark underbelly of this “happiest time of the year.” Those of us who have been washed prone by the gushing holiday faucet of red and green greed and are dreading the repurposed solstice celebration as it drips down the gutter of melancholy, revealing the...

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David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star A Predator Drone in the USA Could be Spying On You by Floyd and Mary Beth Brown Americans are familiar with unmanned spy drones providing surveillance of Iranian nuclear complexes and Taliban armed militants combating American troops along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now the Obama administration has quietly authorized Predator Drone use by law enforcement officials in the United States to spy on American Citizens. According to reporting by the...

Has the Right Gone Mad? by Michael Reagan They say they are all Reaganites and that they want my father to return — my father, who lived by his so-called 11th Commandment that no Republican should speak ill of another Republican. What makes them think he would want to return to any party whose members use hatchets on their fellow Republicans? And do it in public? Ronald Reagan didn’t pick up his toys and go home like a spoiled brat when things didn’t go his way, even after a hard-fought...

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