Category Archives: us.politics

You can't change the plan when it's made

Krugman laid a big egg a couple weeks ago, to such an extent that I cannot fail to respond. The analysis is wrong and the policy prescriptions are just horrendous. But enough of my bald assertions, let’s go straight to … Continue reading

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Where Will It All End?

Recently I have been thinking about outcomes. You know, behavioral outcomes and the reinforcement that naturally follows, and future behavior by other actor(s) that is influenced by the fate of earlier actors. When we see someone get spanked (literally or … Continue reading

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The Mirrored Hall of Empty Values

Rick Warren, so-called ‘Man of God’, tries to wash the blood off his hands in an interview with USA Today: I never get involved in policy. Never. … Most people don’t realize, I really have no faith in politics. I’m … Continue reading

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Protecting what we've come to know as ours

Let me just be the last one to say to Thomas Friedman, you are a complete and utter idiot, and do not have the first clue about the topics on which you ‘pontificate’, as I am sure you would characterize … Continue reading

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Thick Muddy Mystery

Delving into the Duh! file, I am just going to say what everyone knows: This type of public disrespect would not be happening if we didn’t have a half-black President: The nastiness of August reached from the nation’s town halls … Continue reading

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Change has got to come

A thousand points of light, indeed: The United States accounted for more than two-thirds of foreign weapons sales in 2008, a year in which global sales were at a three-year low, The New York Times reported on Sunday. Citing a … Continue reading

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In the Company of Wolves

I gotta hand it to FOARP, even when he is on the road, he still is on the job. I just am not able to spend much time fact-checking (or even reading) Megan McArdle. The nonsense is just too deep … Continue reading

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With Simple Honest Words

The health care debate in the US should be pretty simple. But some parties want to muddy the waters. I wonder why? I can’t actually see the video, but the transcript seems to say it all, from a townhall meeting … Continue reading

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Their Dying Veins

MarketWatch — If you want to feel even more depressed about Friday’s unemployment report, get a load of this: the private sector didn’t just lose jobs over the last month or the last year — it’s lost jobs over the … Continue reading

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Dog's Out

Its going to be good to have The Dog back.

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