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• David Broder's formula for failure:From ...

  David Broder's formula for failure:
  
  From his op-ed:Corrupt and inefficient as [the people running Kabul] may be, they are less of a threat than the Taliban would be. And so we must prop them up.Especially since he also writes:[While American troops are in Afghanistan] the Taliban can continue [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:45am EST
  

• Obama's big joke:From his

  Obama's big joke:
  
  From his remarks at the jobs summit:... we heard from a broad cross-section of thinkers about the urgent need for more effective worker training. And Randall Stephenson from AT&T talked about a successful partnership with San Antonio community colleges to train workers for jobs that [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 9:45pm EST
  

• Fed chairman suggests dishonoring Social Security ...

  Fed chairman suggests dishonoring Social Security bonds:
  
  In the news:"Well, Senator, I was about to address entitlements," Bernanke replied [to Senator Bennett]. "I think you can't tackle the problem in the medium term without doing something about getting entitlements under control and reducing the costs, particularly of'" [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:24pm EST
  

• Give the rich 2010:The Washington ...

  Give the rich 2010:
  
  The Washington Post argues, unpersuasively: (emp add)Extend the estate tax
  
  Congress should vote to make the 2009 levels permanent.
  
  ... the estate tax, having gradually dwindled, is set to be eliminated entirely next year -- only to spring back to life, full-force, [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:26am EST
  

• Bernanke blues:From Naked Capitalism: ...

  Bernanke blues:
  
  From Naked Capitalism: (original emphasis)Progress on “No on Bernanke,” Including Sanders Putting Hold on Confirmation
  
  The efforts to block Bernanke’s confirmation are getting some traction.
  
  First, Bernie Sanders of Vermont said he is putting a hold on Bernanke’s confirmation. A hold (in lay terms) [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:53pm EST
  

• Tiger Woods:Man, that story is ...

  Tiger Woods:
  
  Man, that story is everywhere. National networks, local news, radio, Internet, etc.
  
  Not just the bare story, but extended segments about dealing with infidelity, post-divorce settlements, how it will affect golf, other athletes in similar situations. One news program showed - in its entirety - that [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 7:55pm EST
  

• Fascism defined:According to Umberto ...

  Fascism defined:
  
  According to Umberto Eco:Characteristics of fascism are as follows:The Cult of Tradition,The Rejection of Modernism, The Cult of Action for Action’s Sake, Disagreement as Treason, Fear of Difference, The Main Privilege is to Be Born in the Same Country, The Followers Must be Humiliated by the [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:20pm EST
  

• Do ya like a little Doom and ...

  Do ya like a little Doom and Gloom reading?
  
  Check out 14 reasons Obama's love of Wall Street will trigger the Great Depression 2 at Marketwatch.
  
  It's a little overdone, but the overall theme is that in the last 20 years or so, the U.S. economy became [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 2:10am EST
  

• What?In an editorial about ...

  What?
  
  In an editorial about Nassau County elections and budgets, the New York Times writes this:Mr. Corzine fell into a hole created by the reckless borrowing and tax-cutting of the state’s last Republican governor, Christine Todd Whitman.Christine Todd Whitman was in office from 1994 to 2001. After [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:13am EST
  

• An (80% bearish) view of the economic ...

  An (80% bearish) view of the economic future:
  
  Over at the Big Picture, a longish essay by John Hussman. Excerpts:I should have assumed that Wall Street’s tendency toward reckless myopia – ingrained over the past decade – would return at the first sign of even temporary stability. The [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:03pm EST
  

• James Fallows on Cheney:I am not ...

  James Fallows on Cheney:I am not aware of a case of a former president or vice president behaving as despicably as Cheney has done in the ten months since leaving power, most recently but not exclusively with his comments to Politico about Obama's decisions on Afghanistan. The "aid and" [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:56pm EST
  

• Very bad selection:There's been a ...

  Very bad selection:
  
  There's been a lot of talk lately about the "virtues" of stigma (in particular, relating to food stamps). A post at NRO celebrates stigma. It quoted Charles Murray, who had this to say:First, stigma leads people to socialize their children in ways that minimize the [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 7:47am EST
  

• Dick Cheney in "Fox News mode"

  Dick Cheney in "Fox News mode"
  
  These remarks are straight from the Hannity / Fox Nation / O'Reilly talking points:"Here's a guy without much experience, who campaigned against much of what we put in place ... and who now travels around the world apologizing," Cheney said. "I think'" [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 7:33am EST
  

• Cyber Monday revisited:From Wikipedia: ...

  Cyber Monday revisited:
  
  From Wikipedia: (emp add)In late November 2005, the New York Times reported that "The name Cyber Monday grew out of the observation that millions of otherwise productive working Americans, fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend of window shopping, were returning to high-speed Internet connections at work" [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:25pm EST
  

• Sarah Palin's X-factor:There's been a ...

  Sarah Palin's X-factor:
  
  There's been a lot of talk these days about Palin and, in the wake of her book and her followers, how she might possibly run for president in 2012.
  
  They all assume that, overall, the situation then will be pretty much like they are today. [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:29pm EST
  

• "we may need to ...

  "we may need to pursue scientific truth with a different set of scientists than the ones we have now"
  
  So says the Discovery Institute. Check out this critical analysis of their most recent missive (which was inspired by "climate-gate").
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:38pm EST
  

• Shorter George Will:We ...

  Shorter George Will:We shouldn't legalize marijuana because it will result in more identity theft.Or something like that.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:55am EST
  

• Site notice:Light blogging today as ...

  Site notice:
  
  Light blogging today as I plan to go out and max out all my credit cards* with purchases of whatever is on sale at every store I visit.
  
  You should too.
  
  
  * - And when the bills come, I'll do what Dubai World did:' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:08am EST
  

• Love:Think Progress reports:Palin fuels ...

  Love:
  
  Think Progress reports:Palin fuels presidential rumors: ‘I like’ the sound of ‘President Palin.’
  
  Yesterday, Sarah Palin was greeted by a throng of supporters in The Villages, Florida — a retirement community northwest of Orlando. (Glenn Beck visited the same town this past weekend.) There were shouts [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:09pm EST
  

• The most insane anti-health care missive yet:

  The most insane anti-health care missive yet:
  
  From the Gun Owners of America: (emp add)Of course, all this increased spending – and taxes – means that you will have less money to spend on pursuing your real passions: like providing for your family and purchasing guns and ammunition!
  [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:02am EST
  

• Palin logic:Recently Sarah Palin said ...

  Palin logic:
  
  Recently Sarah Palin said something along the lines of:We should support ____________ because more and more ____________ in the days and weeks and months ahead.The issue she was talking about was settlements in Israel, and Yglesias thinks it's an End Times kind of thinking. (The full [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:51pm EST
  

• Something to look forward to:At ...

  Something to look forward to:
  
  At TAPPED, Tim Fernholz writes:Why Not Withdraw Ben Bernanke's Nominantion?
  
  I was talking to a colleague the other day about the lack of Federal Reserve attention given to unemployment, and noted that now more than ever, President Barack Obama's decision to nominate [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  

• Ezra Klein calls out ...

  Ezra Klein calls out David "the Dean" Broder:
  
  On a failure to understand the CBO report.
  
  The interesting question is, will Broder defend himself on this point or ignore Klein completely?
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:19pm EST
  

• Microsoft moves forward:In the news:

  Microsoft moves forward:
  
  In the news:Microsoft Offers To Pay News Corp To "De-List" Itself From Google
  
  Microsoft wants to pay News Corp and other large publishers to de-list their Web sites from Google's search index, the Financial Times reports.
  
  The idea is to force Google to [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:34pm EST
  

• Here it is!The much awaited ...

  Here it is!
  
  The much awaited column by the "Dean" of the Washington press corp, David Broder, who trashes the health care bill.
  
  Broder is concerned about the impact on the budget.
  
  Nobody should be surprised that Broder cites the Concord Coalition (founded by Pete Peterson) [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:33pm EST
  

• You know your image is bad when ...

  You know your image is bad when ...
  
  Stories like this pop up:Goldman Sachs to take out garbage at Thanksgiving
  
  NEW YORK – The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across the city this Thanksgiving — meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:25pm EST
  

• Sarah Palliteration:From her book:It ...

  Sarah Palliteration:
  
  From her book:It took years for Alaska to achieve victory. As governor, I directed our attorney general to write an amicus brief in the case, and, thanks to Alaska's able attorneys arguing in front of the highest court in the land, in 2008 the U.S. Supreme [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:55am EST
  

• Hutchinson in 2012:Mark Kleiman has ...

  Hutchinson in 2012:
  
  Mark Kleiman has a post where he writes:Right now, there look to be four Republican Presidential candidates for 2012: Palin, Huckabee, Romney, and Pawlenty.And he analyzes it from there.
  
  But who else might be running in 2012? Consider Kay Bailey Hutchinson. She's running [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  

• Does it matter that Palin resigned from ...

  Does it matter that Palin resigned from office?
  
  Not according to David Gregory:It's extraordinary ...
  I mean, she's extraordinary ...
  I mean, all this year, it's as if [Palin's] like a senator or something.
  I mean, she issues statements and posts things on Facebook as if she's an' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:21am EST
  

• Microsoft, always looking out for your best ...

  Microsoft, always looking out for your best interests:
  
  From zdnet.com:Microsoft has issued a security advisory to acknowledge a crippling denial-of-service flaw affecting its newest operating systems — Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
  
  Exploit code for the vulnerability was released by researcher Laurent Gaffié after failed [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:32am EST
  

• Bill Mahr is a ...

  Bill Mahr is a horse's ass:
  
  He's insane on vaccines (and "Western medicine", where Bill Frist is the sensible one.).
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:22am EST
  

• The complete and utter decline in music:

  The complete and utter decline in music:
  
  Watched that hot new show, Glee. Guess what, the end had a chorus singing the song Lean on Me.
  
  Wow! Fresh, and only 37 years old.
  
  Kudos to the grunge and rap "artists" of the last two decades that [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:06pm EST
  

• What's the problem?

  What's the problem?
  
  Over at Calculated Risk, this post title:One million Workers to Exhaust Unemployment Benefits in JanuaryYeah. So?
  
  This country is way over-concerned with jobs. I mean, the big action, profits, and bonuses are taking place on Wall Street. So everything is okay.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

• Explain this:Michael Gerson, writing ...

  Explain this:
  
  Michael Gerson, writing about Eric Holder, says: (emp add)"In the end, Holder made a decision memorable for its incoherence. He declared American military tribunals constitutional and appropriate for some terrorists -- then awarded Sept. 11 mastermind [Khalid Sheik] Mohammed a presumption of innocence and the full" [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:36am EST
  

• You can change public opinion:

  You can change public opinion:
  
  This chart of poll results is striking:Is the movement in the last 18 months the result of Murdoch/McCaughey?
  
  Maybe not all of it, but a hefty portion.
  
  Messaging works. Also, Obama should be faulted for being so passive in the wake [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:40am EST
  

• Blog post title at the Big Picture:

  Blog post title at the Big Picture:
  
  Special Inspector General: NY Fed Screwed Up AIG Bailout
  
  Yes, the NY Fed would have done the right thing except they somehow "screwed up". I mean, how about that? Could have gone the other way, don't you know. But somehow' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:33am EST
  

• Palin surprises:There has been a ...

  Palin surprises:
  
  There has been a lot of talk about Palin's statement on evolution in her book:she “didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea” or from “monkeys who eventually swung' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:50pm EST
  

• This looks interesting: Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) ...

  This looks interesting: Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The decline of the dollar and decisions in the U.S. not to raise interest rates have caused “huge” speculation in foreign exchange trading and seriously affected global asset prices, said Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission.
  
  “The continuous [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:21am EST
  

• David Broder doesn't read his own paper:

  David Broder doesn't read his own paper:
  
  Broder writes on the health care bill: (h/t Balloon Juice)While House Democrats spent the week congratulating themselves for squeezing out the midnight passage of their version of health-care reform, neutral observers were reminding them: You've left the job half done.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:42pm EST
  

• No politics: 20 ...

  No politics: 20 of the Worst Men’s Hairstyles
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:21pm EST
  

• Reaction to Frederic Mishkin:I consider ...

  Reaction to Frederic Mishkin:
  
  I consider Mishkin's remarks that "pure irrational exuberance bubbles" are no big deal, to be one of the most significant statements ever made by a (former) Fed Governor (see this post). Mishkin is clearly sending a Bernanke-approved signal about how they judge these things.' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:29pm EST
  

• Hey Rupert Murdoch!

  Hey Rupert Murdoch!
  
  Put this little file (robots.txt) on all your websites:User-agent: *
  Disallow: /The world will be a much better place.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:47pm EST
  

• The Fed is comfortable blowing bubbles: ...

  The Fed is comfortable blowing bubbles: “The second category of bubble, what I call the “pure irrational exuberance bubble”, is far less dangerous …
  
  Because the second category of bubble does not present the same dangers … as a credit boom bubble, the case for tightening monetary policy [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:54pm EST
  

• DOW up 500 points ...

  DOW up 500 points in 5 days:
  
  Apparently a reaction, in part, to the Fed's suggestion it will hold rates down for a very long time.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 3:37pm EST
  

• Revoke Goldman Sachs' bank ...

  Revoke Goldman Sachs' bank status; take back the through-AIG-payments:
  
  Reason.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  

• Do ya like tariffs?I do. ...

  Do ya like tariffs?
  
  I do. I think, especially with imports from low-wage countries, they give labor the economic power to negotiate with business for a portion of productivity growth. Tariffs also help manufacturers (most notably in the 19th century from British competition).
  
  In any event, Paul Krugman [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:26am EST
  

• Snapshot of the economy:Bloomberg: ...

  Snapshot of the economy:
  
  Bloomberg: Nov. 9 -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set to pay record bonuses this year.
  
  The firms -- the three biggest banks to [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:10am EST
  

• Patrick at politicalbyline.com speaks out:[Joseph Cao] ...

  Patrick at politicalbyline.com speaks out:[Joseph Cao] is the RINO traitor that voted for the Bill, that flies in the face of liberty. (...)
  
  I will be totally honest with you. I am seriously starting to distrust those of eastern decent. I mean, first we had John Yoo, who [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 3:12pm EST
  

• Question:If we ...

  Question:
  
  If we are going to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions, why not also prevent anyone receiving federal unemployment benefits from from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions?
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 3:02pm EST
  

• Website:

  Website:
  
  [loathinglieberman.com]
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:57am EST