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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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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
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's Niall Ferguson Blamed Keynes' Economic Philosophy On His Being Childless And Gay
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American Power, Brad DeLong, The Impolitic and The Monkey Cage
Boston Herald:
Jihadi told Russians about Tamerlan — Links to militants explored — By: — A slain Canadian jihadi gave Russian counter-terrorism agents the tip that put alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev on their radar two years ago, Bay State U.S. Rep. William R. Keating confirmed yesterday …
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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.
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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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
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 …
James Dao / New York Times:
N.R.A. Officials Issue Rallying Cry for Midterm Elections — HOUSTON — In speech after speech at the National Rifle Association's annual convention here this weekend, its top leaders and political allies blasted President Obama and other gun control advocates, warned against “all-out …
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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
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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Laura Leslie / @NCCapitol:
Dem party chair apologizes for ‘rape’ comment
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
NRA ‘Home Defense’ Course Instructs Audience To Store Guns In Kids' Room — Gun owners should store a gun in their kids' room, according to a ‘Home Defense Concepts’ seminar offered at the National Rifle Association's Annual Meeting, comments that came just days after the fatal shooting …
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The Raw Story
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