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Noon-ish Must-Reads

by Joseph Lawler

August 19, 2010, 12:00 AM

Austin Frakt, in a rare intellectually honest criticism of the Ryan Roadmap, says politics is the problem (Kaiser Health News)
Eugene Volokh has a very detailed look at the high school football team in Michigan that practices after dark for Ramadan (Volokh Conspiracy
Bob Costa reports on Darrell Issa gleefully counting his chickens…before they’re hatched, I note (National Review)
I wondered why Michigan had a punter named Zoltan, and after this story I’m looking forward to rooting for him with the Patriots (Wall Street Journal)

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