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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 Other McCain, economistadentata, The Dish, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, Balloon Juice, Telegraph, Wonkblog, Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos
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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
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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Brad DeLong, The Impolitic, American Power and The Monkey Cage
Nycsouthpaw / BuzzFeed:
Harvard History Professor Reportedly Trashes John Maynard Keynes Because He Was Gay And Childless
Harvard History Professor Reportedly Trashes John Maynard Keynes Because He Was Gay And Childless
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Hullabaloo and Streettalk Daily X-Change
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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BBC:
Damascus hit ‘by Israeli strikes’ — Syrian state TV says Israeli rockets have hit a research centre on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. — Huge explosions have been heard near the Jamraya facility, which Western officials have in the past suggested is involved in chemical weapons research.
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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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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The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler and Jihad Watch
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Democratic South Carolina chair defends Nikki Haley barb — COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian, imploring party activists Friday night to defeat this state's Indian-American governor, predicted next year's Democratic standard-bearer would “send Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from.”
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Mediaite, Power Line and BuzzFeed
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Eric Berger / SciGuy:
Tornado spike in 2011 attributed to climate change. So what to make of this year's tornado drought? — As informed citizens, we need to be careful about conflating weather, climate change and natural disasters. — Weather (i.e. the extreme cold we're having in Texas this spring) is weather.
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The Gateway Pundit and UrbanGrounds
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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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
NRA prez: ‘We have turned the tide’ on gun control
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 Reaction and The Raw Story
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 …
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
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 and Riehl World News
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Laura Leslie / @NCCapitol:
Dem party chair apologizes for ‘rape’ comment