Kevin Drum
Kevin Drum
Kevin Drumis a liberal American political blogger and columnist. He was born in Long Beach, California and now lives in Irvine, California...
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I feel very good about the future. My concern is this month and next month. Everything is positive about the future.
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Let me say this flatly: Leaks are good. They are the way we hold paranoid and secretive governments accountable. Historically, leaks have virtually never harmed national security in even a minor way, despite plenty of shrill commentary to the contrary. Reporters should be allowed to print them without fear of being tossed in jail.
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Obviously, the first big step was to get the courses open. We've got nearly 90 percent open. I have a big no vacancy sign on the second subject. Obviously, our big issue is rooms.
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I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.
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Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.
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We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.
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On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.
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Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.
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Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.
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Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.
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If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: "If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against." That's certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.
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We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.
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The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn't rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.
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Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.