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McCain and Feingold thought they had a good idea who their enemies were. McConnell never pretended to see the smallest merit in anything they proposed. To him the debate is a basic free-speech issue: if people want to spend their money supporting candidates or making TV ads about a candidate's environmental record, that is their prerogative. But as the week began, it was not McConnell who posed the greatest threat. It was, of all people, Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone, the most earnest, make-the-world-a-better-place Senator...
Happily, Blow (based on Bruce Porter’s book of the same name) has enough merit to avoid easy aphorisms. The title refers to cocaine, but Blow isn’t intended to be a drug movie in the sense that Traffic or Trainspotting are drug movies. It assumes its viewers already know the history of coke and how the drug took Studio 54 and Wall Street by storm, and thus steers away from dealing with the well-documented social effects of cocaine. Instead, the film is a biography of an extraordinary life, that of George Jung, the baby...
...Horowitz, reparations supporters ought to applaud him. The fuss he started is just the kind of highly visible wrangling they need to prove that reparations is an issue worth fighting about, not a pipe dream. If an archconservative like Horowitz is so down on the idea, it must have merit...
...McCain and Feingold thought they had a good idea who their enemies were. McConnell never pretended to see the smallest merit in anything they proposed. To him the debate is a basic free-speech issue: if people want to spend their money supporting candidates or making TV ads about a candidate's environmental record, that is their prerogative. But as the week began, it was not McConnell who posed the greatest threat. It was, of all people, Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone, the most earnest, make-the-world-a-better-place senator...
...preclude a meaningful response, at least silence an appropriate one. To some individuals, the lexicography of Paul is not a moral concern that demands reply, just as to some individuals religious prescriptions against wearing polyester-cotton blend clothing or revealing one's face in public do not merit a moral defense...