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Andrew Sullivan thinks that President Obama used a “rope a dope” strategy on health care reform opponents, that for all the falderal at town hall meetings in August, essentially the opponents just punched themselves out. Mr.…

Over at The Atlantic’s website, the blogger Andrew Sullivan poses an interesting, even gruesome, philosophical argument: If you buy the Bush administration’s arguments that its “enhanced interrogation” techniques don’t constitute torture, why not rape? Sullivan writes:

Raping someone need not leave any long-term…

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(h/t Andrew Sullivan)

That’s how Andrew Sullivan describes it, as Princeton economists weigh in.

After asking that tonight’s “Debate the Debate” party on The Platform be postponed so he could attend a sick cat, Post-Dispatch commentary page editor Eric Mink now has agreed to take part.

Together with John McCain’s decision to un-postpone his campaign and…