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Thomas Franks Explains the K Street Project
Yesterday I had a post on how K Street is no longer shunning Democrats. Thomas Frank explains the signficance of the K Street Project in the New York Times: K Street is not neutral. From all its...
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The Growth of Left-Leaning Libertarianism
There have been a number of recent posts on conservatives and libertarians supporting Obama due to the authoritarian shift of the American conservative movement and their abandonment of their previous...
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Libertarian Support for Barack Obama
(This post for The Carpetbagger Report reviews recent posts here on libertarian support for Obama and on left-libertarianism). When I was guest blogging at The Carpetbagger Report in January I wrote a...
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John McCain Invented The BlackBerry and Other Silly Stories
The silly stories continue. While we are not hearing as much about pigs or lipstick, one of the top stories today is the report that John McCain invented the BlackBerry. AP reports: Move over, Al Gore....
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John McCain and Deregulation of Health Insurance
They say timing is everything. For John McCain, this was the worst possible time to have this article (pdf) come out in which McCain writes: Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous...
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Comparison of Obama and McCain’s Health Care Plans
The Commmonwealth Fund has compared the health care plans of Barack Obama and John McCain and found that Obama’s plan would do far more to provide health care coverage to the uninsured. They made...
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Obama To Use Keating 5 In Response to McCain’s Smears About Obama’s Past
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsI_0bV2CZo] John McCain plans to launch a new series of smears against Barack Obama this week based upon distorted accounts of association with others. This is...
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Reasons For Optimism For Libertarianism
Libertarian views of Barack Obama have varied widely, largely because the wide variety of people who use this label. I noted during the election that many libertarians were backing Obama, while other...
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The Economist Interviews Richard Posner
The Economist has interviewed Richard Posner. Posner has attracted my attention (and the attention of many others) for being economically conservative out of the Chicago School but acknowledging that...
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Republican Comeback?
Politico is talking about the possibility of a Republican comeback, starting out with reasons why it sounds far-fetched: For the first time since their 2006 election drubbing, top Republicans see signs...
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In Their Usual Corners
I’ve expressed reservations about Michael Moore’s upcoming movie on capitalism. My bet is that Moore will have come correct points about failures of capitalism as practiced which led to the financial...
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The Right Way To Play The Blame Game
James Carville argues that Democrats are making a mistake in not playing the blame game and placing the blame where it belongs: Democrats would not be playing the blame game with one another for the...
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Quote of the Day
Tyler Cowen on the spending freeze: There’s not much to say in terms of the economic issues, the real lesson is that politics is more constrained than many people think. Berating Obama for his lack of...
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Rove Blaming Obama For Failing To Repair All Bush Administration Problems
After the major failures of the Bush administration it has been common place for Bush apologists to try to claim that Obama has committed acts of incompetence comparable to those which were commonplace...
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Peggy Noonan’s New Criteria For Presidential Competence
I’m never sure what to think of Peggy Noonan. Sometimes she sounds more rational than the typical conservative columnist writing for The Wall Street Journal. Other times she comes up with nonsense like...
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