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Politics

The Party of Ideas

By Matthew Yglesias
October 31, 2006
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New GOP initiatives of the day -- no sex for twentysomething single people and a mass hate of John Kerry (who, one notes, is not actually up for election this year) for having made . . . a sloppily-worded joke about how stupid people such as George W. Bush wind up blundering their countries into horribly misguided military adventures.