successful turns of phrase

The phrase “Iron Curtain” was coined by Churchill in a speech in Missouri, if memory serves. Is there a known source for “Cold War”?

Update: Dan Kohn did the legwork and got the goods:

Cold War
This term for a conflict between nations that falls short of all-out war was coined, appropriately enough, by George Orwell in October 1945. Many, including Safire, credit Bayard Swope, a speech writer for Bernard Baruch[,] for coining the term in a draft speech in 1946. Baruch didn’t use the phrase, though, until 1947. But Orwell beat him to the punch in an article in the Tribune.

Dan adds, “BTW, Churchill’s speech is here“.

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yes, I’m bigger than you; so?

Lately the panhandlers (and nobody else) keep addressing me as “big guy”. They did not always, or so it seems.

I suppose I could reply, “What do you want, little guy?”

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to keep and bear lightning

David Kopel: Does God Believe in Gun Control?

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a penny here, a penny there

How to make money off blogs according to Eve Kayden. If any advertising moguls are reading this, I’m willing to have a go. Six hundred pairs of eyeballs a month, baby!

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zero tolerance

Darth Vader’s War on Terror.

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no nukes here, really!

Since logging began in November, I’ve had 13 referrals from www.iaea.org, which appears to be dead; whois says it’s the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna. Ha? Is someone spoofing?

Update 6/01: That site is up now.

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victory is around the corner

Freezerbox: This Is American History On Drugs

California now imprisons more people than do France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the Netherlands combined. It has more people in jail for drug offenses than were in jail in the entire United States in 1978.

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