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• On the Bright SideMike Rappaport

  Alvin Rabushka argues:

  It would be good for the U.S. dollar to lose its reserve currency status. The U.S. is able to issue debt in its own currency. If it could not, because others did not accept the dollar as their official foreign exchange reserves, it would be harder and more costly [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:58pm EST
  by Mike Rappaport

• Where's the little guy on the tricycle? Tom Smith

  (A law professor joke.) [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:56pm EST
  by Tom Smith

• Damning by WinningMike Rappaport

  If the Democrat's Health Care Restructuring -- there is no reason to call it "reform" -- can only pass the House by a small number, isn't that an enormous indictment of the bill.  It does not even have the full support of the Democratic party, and it has no support [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:21pm EST
  by Mike Rappaport

• Dems say HCR bill will pass House Tom Smith

  What a mess this will be.  If I were betting, I would bet it would pass.  It would be surprising if Cat Lady couldn't wring out 218 votes from her majority. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:08pm EST
  by Tom Smith

• Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design – secret report | Tom Smith

  The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of the design. The development [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:24pm EST
  by Tom Smith

• Presumably there would be an exception for Madame Speaker Tom Smith

  Meow. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:01pm EST
  by Tom Smith

• Geeze, give the guy a break Tom Smith

  If you were having sex with Barney Frank, you want to be stoned too. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:14am EST
  by Tom Smith

• Latest on health care in House Tom Smith

  Seems like good minute-by-minute here.  218 seems like a real stretch to me, but it could happen.  It tells you something about this bill. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:04am EST
  by Tom Smith