HOW GOLDMAN SACHS helped Greece mask its true debt. This is interesting in itself, but it makes me wonder how much similar chicanery is out there undiscovered . . . .

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SOME NEW LENSES from Nikon.

HEH: Bush was right, says Obama.

PJTV: I talk with RedState’s Erick Erickson.

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RAND SIMBERG responds to astronaut Tom Jones. “While my admiration and gratitude to Tom Jones for his service to our nation, both on the planet and off, is unbounded, I believe he is wrong in his description of the new space policy as a ‘path to nowhere.’ In so characterizing it, ...

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