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When the Big Red skates onto the ice at the Bright Hockey Center this Friday at 7 p.m., it will mark the 132nd clash between the programs, a rivalry with no shortage of bad blood...
...it’s not Russia, it’s the United States!’” Franks said, pointing to child pornography and violence and degradation of women featured in what he called “hardcore pornography.” “This is bad. It’s criminal. It’s evil...
These are all valid criticisms, but they fail to capture the real source of Americans’ frustration. Whatever the bad rap on Obama and the Democrats, were it not for the filibuster and lock-step Republican opposition, the President would have emerged from his first year in office with three—if not more—major legislative victories. The major disability of American democracy is not Democratic fecklessness so much as the pervasive and intensifying feeling that our legislative process is broken. Yet, in spite of the swelling public exasperation with a plainly dysfunctional system, there...
...sure, the filibuster is not, in principle, a bad idea. In an era of hyper-partisanship and 24-hour news cycles, even a legislative body as inherently deliberative as the Senate is in need of some sort of braking mechanism, for when those built into a system of checks and balances don’t suffice...
...just wanted more house than they could afford, and it's not clear whether an agency devoted to helping consumers would have pushed for stricter scrutiny of their credit histories, higher requirements for their down payments and other borrowing restrictions that might have helped save them from their own bad instincts. In any case, it's hard to imagine how the subprime crisis would have metastasized into a financial collapse if banks hadn't been so big, interconnected, complex and overleveraged - problems that had little to do with consumer protection. (See 25 people who mattered...