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Even If We Could Afford To Build A Death Star It Would Still Be A Bad Idea

February 24, 2012Erik Kain

Students at have put together a fun experiment. They’ve calculated just how much it would cost to build a Death Star from Star Wars. The steel alone, they estimate, would cost at “2012 prices, about $852,000,000,000,000,000. Or roughly 13,000 times the world’s GDP.” Kevin Drum says this is a bargain – for the Galactic Empire: […]

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Herman Cain Reassesses Campaign as Newt Surges in the Polls

November 29, 2011Erik Kain

Republican candidate Hermain Cain told reporters Tuesday he was reassessing his campaign. Could the race come down to Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney? Herman Cain’s days as front runner in this oh-so-hectic of primary seasons are over, and it appears his candidacy may be in its last throes as well. I think it’s funny or […]

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What the Bank of America Debit Card Fees Can Teach Us About Healthcare Reform

October 4, 2011Erik Kain

When Bank of America announced recently that it would begin charging its customers five dollars a month for using  their debit cards, the public outrage was palpable. The internet ignited with angry customers decrying the greed of the big banks and the stupidity of this latest attempt to “squeeze” them for every last penny. I […]

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Why the New Bank of America Debit Card Fees are a Good Thing

October 1, 2011Erik Kain

When Bank of America decided to start charging its customers a $5/month fee for using debit cards, people all across the internet were up in arms. This struck me as wrong-headed off the bat. Five dollars is hardly price-gouging, and paying for a service like debit or checking strikes me as a reasonable idea. Kevin […]

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The US Assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki and the Blurring of Bright Lines

September 30, 2011Erik Kain

Adam Serwer has some good background on the case of Al-Qaeda-linked radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki who has reportedly been killed by US special ops in Yemen. As Kevin Drum notes, this is the first US citizen assassinated abroad by the US government, and the second killed in the war on terror. The Bush administration killed […]

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