Daily Archive: August 21, 2009

do nothing

Interesting column from Bruce Bartlett.  I honestly haven’t made up my mind where I stand on the stimulus.  There are many competing theories on how best to implement stimulus.  Monetary policy?  Fiscal policy?  Should...

Crickets

National Review’s response to former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s allegation that Bush pressured him to raise the terror alert status on the eve of the 2004 election is this stirring post from Kathryn...

None dare call it justice

Following Freddie’s lead, I confess I’m rather baffled by Alex Massie’s sympathetic take on the Lockerbie Bomber’s release. As I understand it, this is a man duly convicted of murdering hundreds of innocent airline...

DeLong Care

By way of this post, Matt Yglesias explains why he likes Brad DeLong’s “totally unrealistic health care plan.”  First, to boil down DeLong’s rather long post on the subject, let me lift this excellent...