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Campaign Finance Reform’s Unending Quest to Limit Our Rights. Bradley Smith explains how campaign finance "reform" has continued to erode basic constitutional protections: "every time we close off one avenue of political participation, politically active Americans will turn to the next most effective legal means of carrying on their activity. That next most effective means will then become the loophole that must be closed."

Gmail Users Are More Active on Social Media.

The GOP Shouldn’t Count It’s Chickens Just Yet. Ramesh Ponnuru: "Republicans shouldn't get carried away. There are 10 months to go before the midterm elections, and the political climate can change a lot in that time."

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A Rare Defense of the Vietnam War. "Despite the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vietnam was not a "futile" conflict. The U.S. effort bought time for Thailand and other nations in East and Southeast Asia to develop in relative peace. Their prosperity, in turn, showed the world the difference between the fruits of capitalism and the poverty of socialism. Like the Korean War, Vietnam needs to be understood as an honorable battle fought to a draw in America's longer and victorious Cold War."

Brightcove’s Facebook Chat.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy propose that governments "no longer stand idle" and intervene in markets to keep oil prices at some ideal level.

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Does More Prevention Mean Lower Cost? Not necessarily, argues Mark Steyn.

How Facebook is Gunning for Google (And Killing SEO)

Echoes of Herbert Croly’s Promise of American Life. "For nearly a century, California offered ordinary people better lives than they could lead perhaps anywhere else in the world. Today, reflecting our intensely stratified, increasingly mobile society, California affords the Good Life only to the most gifted and ambitious, regardless of their background. That’s a deeply undemocratic betrayal of California’s dream—and of the promise of American life."

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Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?

Chuck DeVore’s Quixotic Attempt to Twitter and Parody-Video His Way Into the U.S. Senate "'They say the Internet is forever and things I write could be used against me in the future. If Alexander Hamilton and Lincoln lived today, would they be using their technology to get their message across? Yes,' DeVore declares. 'What are the Federalist Papers but the technological equivalent in the 1700s of the blogs?'"

In Defense of Distraction. Sam Anderson asks if it's possible to retain our focus in a distraction-filled modern world–and does it matter? For what it's worth, this took three sittings to get through.

Not Helping. This Facebook group makes out Republicans or conservatives as sore losers.

The Healthcare-Competitiveness Fallacy

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