Count me 100% with Big Tent Democrat on the proper role of politicians (Mayor Bloomberg obviously notwithstanding)...
Month: August 2010
The fiscal obstinacy of Tom Coburn, you might be surprised to know, is saving American lives. Due...
By Rick Ungar In the 1995 film “The American President”, Andrew Shepherd, the fictional president of the...
An Alternet article profiles “Ten Young Right-Wingers Being Prepped to Take Over the Conservative Movement“- #6 is...
Other than raw vindictiveness, there is no reason to view this as anything other than an unqualified good,...
Unqualified Offerings’ Thoreau reminds me of a bit I wrote in 2004. The Wayback Machine didn’t have...
Low-hanging fruit, I know, but given the role of Jihad Watch in pushing the Cordoba Community Center...
Bemoaning the “nanny state”, Andrew Sullivan highlights a recent story about posters for a Will Ferrel comedy being...
The claim of this post is simple but facetious. Cookbooks lie to you.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has a lovely post about isolation that’s well worth your while. You should read it....
This be an open thread y’all. Rather than give some sort of sentimental, pretentious review, I’m just...
Why did Star Wars go off the rails? The Los Angeles Times takes a look at the...
How much unemployment can we blame on the Obama administration? Economist Rob Shapiro dug into some Bureau...
…and proceed to argue about population isolates, like the Tasmanians, over at Brad DeLong’s place. Seriously, I’ll...
Fantastic article on the modern Senate by George Packer – it’s a long one, but well worth...
[updated] So, just to clarify a position I hold: My belief in free markets is based in...
The latest in managed ignorance: Voters think TARP passed under Obama, not Bush. So many corrections, so...
This comes 12 years too late, but I still think it’s worth correcting the record. In his...
As one would expect, the GOP’s new official budget proposal to “stop the reckless spending binge” doesn’t...
The third in my paperback reprint series at lulu.com is Kevin Carson’s Studies in Mutualist Political Economy.
