Tom Toles: October 3, 2010 - October 9, 2010

Free speech

*** Friday rant: rantless edition The fevers came over me early this week, and I thrashed about in total indignation yesterday. I liked what I had written better before an editor locked me into a straitjacket and deleted some...

By Tom Toles  | October 8, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (57)
Categories:  Supreme Court  
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The race for recovery

*** Thursday Rant: Friday rant one day early edition The voters did it, with the blunt instrument. The ballot box, never a finely honed scalpel for working on public policy, has been ground down to a bluntness suitable only...

By Tom Toles  | October 7, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (65)
Categories:  Economy and jobs  
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Virginiaish Inquistion

*** Simplicity itself If somebody loses his job and doesn't have enough money for a place to live and ends up sleeping outdoors and gets sick and has no health insurance and dies, is that the efficiency of the...

By Tom Toles  | October 6, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (29)
Categories:  Environment & global warming  
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Terror alert

The tie that doesn't bind I was in a hotel room over the weekend for a wedding. It was a beautiful wedding, by the way, although I am a big sucker for weddings. But I brought a tie to...

By Tom Toles  | October 5, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (24)
Categories:  International  
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Obama's roadblock

Teachable moment Further discussion about a movie I still haven't seen, Waiting for Superman. I don't like to put on a conservative hat often, because it's like joining the avalanche of crazy. And any groups organized for working people...

By Tom Toles  | October 4, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (21)
Categories:  GOP, Obama White House  
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A Capitol tour

By Tom Toles  | October 3, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (9)
Categories:  Congress, DC, Tea party  
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