Archive for December, 2014
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The Certain Benefits of Long-Term Tax Policy
Posted on December 11, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) When the president threatened to veto a congressional plan to permanently extend a tax credit for research and development, he did it...
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Torture
Posted on December 11, 2014
“Boys only love you when it’s torture. Don’t say that I didn’t warn you.” That piece of wisdom comes from Taylor Swift’s newest hit, (Just in time for the holidays...
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The Pun Under Attack in China
Posted on December 10, 2014
According to Wikipedia: The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words,...
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The Usual Suspects
Posted on December 9, 2014
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) It’s the easiest story to write for the mostly younger journalists on Capitol Hill: the conservative uprising against the Republican leadership. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz...
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Social Media in the Age of Ferguson
Posted on December 8, 2014
You can go on any Facebook page across America and find a pretty fulsome discussion about Ferguson. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Social media is driving...
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