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Niall Ferguson:
An Unqualified Apology — During a recent question-and-answer session at a conference in California, I made comments about John Maynard Keynes that were as stupid as they were insensitive. — I had been asked to comment on Keynes's famous observation “In the long run we are all dead.”
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economistadentata, Wonkblog, Telegraph, Business Insider, Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos
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Tom Kostigen / fa-mag.com:
Harvard Professor Trashes Keynes For Homosexuality — Harvard Professor and author Niall Ferguson says John Maynard Keynes' economic philosophy was flawed and he didn't care about future generations because he was gay and didn't have children. — Speaking at the Tenth Annual Altegris Conference …
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Harvard's Niall Ferguson Blamed Keynes' Economic Philosophy On His Being Childless And Gay — Harvard professor and famous historian Niall Ferguson reportedly made some bizarre and offensive remarks about economist John Maynard Keynes at an investment conference yesterday.
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American Power, The Impolitic, Brad DeLong and The Monkey Cage
The Atlantic Wire:
Niall Ferguson's History with John Maynard Keynes' Gayness — Harvard professor and prominent Daily Beast columnist Niall Ferguson is now apologizing for saying economist John Maynard Keynes' theories about surplus and deficit spending were somehow shaped by that fact that he was gay and childless.
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Crooked Timber and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Fox News:
BENGHAZI: Names of ‘whistleblower’ witnesses revealed — Their identities have been a well-guarded secret, known only to their high-powered lawyers and a handful of House lawmakers and staff. But now Fox News has learned the names of the self-described Benghazi “whistleblowers” …
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The Jawa Report, Fox News Insider, BizPac Review, neo-neocon, The PJ Tatler and The Gateway Pundit
Boston Herald:
No one wants to bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev — By: — A Worcester funeral home director was scrambling last night to find a cemetery that would bury the marathon bombings mastermind, as protesters jeered outside his door demanding that the bomber's body be shipped out of the United States.
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? | Glenn Greenwald — A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case — The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because …
Washington Post:
Israel launches second airstrike in Syria, targeting weapons shipment — JERUSALEM — Israeli forces have carried out an airstrike against a shipment of sophisticated missiles bound for the Lebanese political and military organization Hezbollah, officials in Washington, Lebanon and Israel told reporters Saturday.
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Taylor Marsh, National Review and World News
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News-Record.com:
Voller: GOP is raping N.C. — N.C. Democratic Party Chairman Randy Voller told a room full of people at the Democratic Women of Guilford County's spring banquet Thursday that the GOP is raping North Carolina with its legislative decisions. — Voller said this afternoon that he meant …
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BuzzFeed, @NCCapitol and Riehl World News
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
A march on Washington with loaded rifles — A gun activist is planning a massive march on D.C., with participants' rifles illegally slung over their shoulders — Libertarian activist and radio host Adam Kokesh is hoping to get 1,000 people to march on Washington on July 4 — armed with loaded rifles.
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This ain't Hell …, americanthinker.com, Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog and Balloon Juice
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Prude or prudent? The debate over access to Plan B — They lost me at the word “women.” — As so often happens in contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of allowing teenagers as young as 15 (and possibly younger) to buy the “morning-after pill” without adult supervision are false on their premise.
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Booman Tribune, Althouse and RH Reality Check
Sarah Elizabeth Richards / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Froze My Eggs (And You Should, Too) — Amid all the talk of ‘leaning in’ and ‘having it all,’ we've ignored the most powerful gender-equalizer. — Between the ages of 36 and 38, I spent nearly $50,000 to freeze 70 eggs in the hope that they would help me have a family in my mid-40s, when my natural fertility is gone.
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Althouse
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
NRA prez: ‘We have turned the tide’ on gun control — The National Rifle Association (NRA) has “turned the tide” on gun control efforts in Washington since the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, but the “war” is not over, the gun lobby's outgoing president said Saturday.
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