Here’s a pretty insightful piece from Atlantic’s house quasi-libertarian Megan McArdle on various attitudes that likely played into the result in NY 23. And a follow-up.
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Here’s a pretty insightful piece from Atlantic’s house quasi-libertarian Megan McArdle on various attitudes that likely played into the result in NY 23. And a follow-up.
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[...]Exit polls suggest that the Virginia and New Jersey elections were not considered referenda on Obama, who is still widely personally popular, but there were plenty of danger signs for Democrats. For the most part independents, who went Democrat in 2006 and moreso in 2008, went Republican this [...]
The Affordable Health Care for America Act, perhaps the most inappropriately named legislation since California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, should frighten anyone who ever expects to need a doctor, or a dollar.
An old buddy, Bob Knight, sums it up pretty well:
“The Democrats are going for broke, which means we’ll [...]
When we’re right we’re right. But when we’re wrong, we correct the record.
In this blog (see below) yesterday we repeated something from James Taranto’s Best of the Web blog about President Obama. It turns out Taranto got it wrong. So, consequently so did we.
We publish his correction here [...]
A judge in Italy has convicted 23 Americans, mostly CIA employees, in absentia for whisking a suspected jihadist leader, one Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, off the streets of Milan in 2003 and sending him to Egypt for questioning, where he claims he was tortured repeatedly. It may be that [...]
Miami Herald TV reviewer Glenn Garvin at least thinks it’s possible. Money quote:
Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better [...]
Today [Wednesday] is the 30th anniversary of the day some radical students invaded the U.S. embassy in Tehran, leading to the 444-day hostage crisis that contributed greatly to the defeat of Jimmy Carter by Ronald Reagan and changed the landscape in the middle East in ways that are still resonating. [...]
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