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Henninger: A Tale of Two Commencements
Wed, 16 May 2012 20:32:13 EDT For Obama, politics is life. For Romney, politics does not define us. |
Rich Karlgaard: The Future Is More Than Facebook
Wed, 16 May 2012 21:17:37 EDT Social media is already passé in Silicon Valley. America's innovation engine is now focused on transportation, energy and manufacturing. |
Rove: Obama's Campaign Is Off to a Rocky Start
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:57:27 EDT The record in May has been one mistake or disappointment after another. |
Pledge Week at the Fed
Wed, 16 May 2012 20:07:07 EDT Regulators get ready to expand the too-big-to-fail club. |
Union Disclosure Rout
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:52:04 EDT Shareholders reject the proxy ruse to kill business speech. |
Tea Party Terror Flakeout
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:52:43 EDT House Republicans give political cover to the ACLU left. |
Dagan, Hanning, Woolsey, Guthrie, Silverberg and Wallace: Total Sanctions Might Stop Iran
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:50:02 EDT The regime is hurting. Fully cutting off its access to international business, especially banking and shipping, could be the solution to its bomb program. |
Allan Meltzer: Banks Need More Capital, Not More Rules
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:55:06 EDT The U.S. economy can't grow unless investors are free to finance risky assets. |
Notable & Quotable
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:48:36 EDT Actor Will Smith on new French President Francois Hollande's proposal to tax high-earners at 75%. |
The Civilians' Finest Hour
Wed, 16 May 2012 18:20:48 EDT "Freedom's Forge" tells the story of how U.S. business leaders were mobilized to build ships, tanks and weapons faster and better than the enemy, to win World War II. |
Best of the Web Today: The False 'Monty'
Wed, 16 May 2012 22:25:40 EDT TSA agents did "nothing untoward" to Henry Kissinger. |

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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick \MAF-ik\ verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.
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