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 There arent nearly enough counterterrorism experts to instruct all of Americas police. So we got these guys instead.
 Last year there wasn�t a single fatal airline accident in the developed world. So why is the U.S. health care system still accidently killing hundreds of thousands? The answer is a lack of transparency.
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May 6, 2008
By: ATTENTION FELLOW ORANGE COUNTIANS....Friend o' the blog Matt Yglesias will be at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda on Wednesday evening to give a talk about his new book, Heads in the Sand. It's at 7:30 pm, but if you come early you'll probably have a chance to ask some annoying questions and make him nervous beforehand. Details here. Directions to the library here. I'll be there too, but I plan to sit in the back and be my usual unobtrusive self. —Kevin Drum 3:20 PM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (13)
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This has to be the slowest comments day ever, Kevin. Mott, The Nixon library is a good spot for an Iraq war hawk and economic royalist like Matthew to speak. Posted by: Petey on May 6, 2008 at 4:39 PM | PERMALINKThe Nixon Library? Is that some kind of joke? No self-respecting liberal would get within 5 miles of the place! Geez, I had to go to a dermatologist not too far from there and I got the willies (that's not why I had to go to a dermatologist) just going thru Yorba Linda... Posted by: gab on May 6, 2008 at 4:53 PM | PERMALINKMott's observation was quite prescient. I guess folks on this blog are all at home today baking their pies for tomorrow's fight.
The Nixon Library? Is that some kind of joke? No self-respecting liberal would get within 5 miles of the place!Actually, that's not quite true. When I was in southern California about five years ago, I made a special trip to see The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, as it was called then. I kind of had to see it, the way you slow down to look at a car accident. All the tour guides were classic Orange County Republican types. One of them saw me looking at a particular exhibit and came over to say helpfully, "This is a replica of the Lincoln Sitting Room in the White House when the Nixons lived there." I wanted to say, "So, is this where he erased the tapes?" but I chickened out. Posted by: navamske on May 6, 2008 at 6:20 PM | PERMALINK Per the ad on the right-hand rail, isn't it a lie for the Nixon Library to claim to be a nonpartisan federal institution? IIRC, it was built entirely with private money precisely so it could be partisan. I visited it a couple of months after Mark Felt self-outed as Deep Throat. Not one word about it in the Nixon Library. While I would gladly revisit the Truman, Eisenhower and Bush I libraries, or the LBJ, I would never go to the Nixon Library a second time. Posted by: SocraticGadfly on May 6, 2008 at 6:35 PM | PERMALINKI would go to the Nixon library, but only with a very full bladder and a couple liters of Pepsi. Posted by: Fuck Dick Nixon on May 6, 2008 at 7:52 PM | PERMALINKMatthew Yglesias is essentially a little boy. He's been coddled all his life, and has never had a real job. What the hell does he know about anything? Thus continues the ridiculous tradition of punditry in this country.' Since it's a tribute to the Dickster, I assume there's a wet bar? Posted by: Fnord on May 6, 2008 at 10:31 PM | PERMALINKIs Nixon buried near there? If so, would you drop a wolfsbane wreath on his gravesite for me? I imagine driving a wooden stake through his heart would be difficult. Posted by: CJColucci on May 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM | PERMALINKHi guys. There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own. Help me! I can not find sites on the: Getting an online degree. I found only this - online public health degree. You can study a based sure on-campus from an seen international career without having to acquire, online degree. Online degree, they can currently make their reality within their developmental period. Thank you very much :rolleyes:. Ameerah from Malta. Posted by: Ameerah on March 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM | PERMALINKPost a comment
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