Daily Archive: October 12, 2009

Mark of New Jersey

/// October 12, 2009

But What Are You For? The Death of Modern Movement Conservatism

I had the good fortune yesterday afternoon to attend a panel discussion on the future of conservatism featuring Ross Douthat, David Frum, Daniel Larison, and Virginia Postrel. It was a rather enlightening discussion, but...

Will

/// October 12, 2009

Bloodsport

Contra Bill Simmons, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest article isn’t 2009’s best piece of sports journalism. In fact, it’s not even the best article about football-related concussions. For that, you’ll have to go to GQ’s “Game...

Will

/// October 12, 2009

In Defense of Capitalism

Please read Jagdish Bhagwati’s excellent defense of free markets and free trade in the wake of the global financial panic.

Erik Kain

/// October 12, 2009

Open Thread

“If deflation really gets so out of hand that it plunges us into Depression-like circumstances, that’ll be bad for everyone. But if we have four or five years of near-zero inflation and 9-10 percent...

Erik Kain

/// October 12, 2009

Race and Politics

If you missed it, Scott, Jamelle, and Reihan Salam did a podcast together. You can listen to it here.

Erik Kain

/// October 12, 2009

Endless Divisions

Freddie’s piece on Ross Douthat is top-notch. But more interesting than the critique of Douthat-as-columnist, is Freddie’s analysis of conservatism divided, which after a second and third reading, I can agree with to a...

Chris Dierkes

/// October 12, 2009

Thank Canada

Writing from my mother-in-law’s beautiful home on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia… To all our Canadian Readers (and beloved true Canadian member of the League), Happy Thanksgiving Long Weekend (Canadian Observed).

Mark of New Jersey

/// October 12, 2009

Odds and Ends

I wanted to quickly highlight Publius’ response to my post the other day on net neutrality. It’s a useful response that reinforces a key point that I was trying to make: if “reduced government...

Erik Kain

/// October 12, 2009

Nobel Democracy-Promotion Prize

So Sullivan recommends that Mousavi gets the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Obama. I wonder, is the Peace Prize about promoting peace or is it about promoting democracy? Mousavi has helped egg on riots...

Freddie

/// October 12, 2009

the genuine shame of Ross Douthat’s New York Times column

When the New York Times ended (or Bill Kristol ended) the absurd farce of having among their columnists an utterly discredited, partisan neocon whose every assumption and prediction about Iraq had proven brutally and...

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Pardon Me, Sir

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The full list of pardons and commutations President Trump has issued on his last day in office, with a little help from Grey Poupon

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Ryan Adams Cleared by the FBI

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While Adams still has the pall of being an asshole hanging over his head, none of those come with possible felonies attached.

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From Rolling Stone: What Happened to Promises to Disband the Minneapolis Police?

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How vows to reform public safety in the wake of George Floyd’s killing devolved into modest cuts to the city’s 2021 police budget

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From CNN Business: Sheldon Adelson, Republican kingmaker and casino magnate, has died at 87

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From CNN Business:

New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.

Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.

(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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From Gizmodo: Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived

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From Gizmodo:

In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.

The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.

(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Amazon Turns Out the Lights, The Parler’s Over

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First Apple kicked the app off the iOS app store, and now Amazon is ending their web services agreement citing breech of terms of service.

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From Twitter Safety: Donald Trump’s Twitter Account has been Permanently Suspended

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From Twitter Safety:

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021