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The ballad of Buckley’s blowhard
Holy Joe Lieberman has died, writes Erik Loomis.
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Jiang Zemin, who opened China to markets and corruption, is dead
Most believed he’d be, at best, a transitional figure.
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Ken Starr, janus-faced moral hack, is finally dead
In short, Starr’s feelings about sexual crime depended entirely on whether he liked the person who committed it.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, is dead
The former Soviet premier became a sort of hero in the west. But he became that hero precisely because he was a massive failure.
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He’s finally gone, but Mexico is still a mess
Each Mexican president since World War II deserves some level of blame. Few deserve more than Luis Echeverría Alvarez.
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Orrin Hatch, champion of revanchist values and father of judicial extremism, is dead
For all his work in making the nation worse, Donald Trump presented Hatch with the Presidential Medal of Freedom that year.
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The mean old man of the GOP is dead
Bob Dole 1923-2021.
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His life made the world worse
Colin Powell, 1937-2021.
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At his best and most useful
Richard Trumka (1949-2021)
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Finally, the beast is dead
Erik Loomis writes Donald Rumsfeld's obituary.