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You all know the story. A shepherd boy gets bored with his duties and craves something more exciting than watching a herd of sheep graze, so he cries “Wolf!” and the townspeople come running. That ruse worked so well that he tries it again and again and again, each time bringing the townspeople to his [...]

Decorum indeed! “You lie!”

Maybe Santyana looked into the past to predict the future. Maybe he read that
. . . in the twenty-nice years since the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, Americans had already risen in revolt three times, and on each occasion over taxation (A Darn Good History of the United States, 161).
Maybe Congress and the President should [...]

How do these guys manage to run a campaign, let alone the country, with their foot always planted firmly in their mouths? First, second, third, and fourth (etc.) it was Coakley, now it’s Van Hollen’s turn. Hollen, chairman of he Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, had this to say about how the Republicans shouldn’t be handed [...]