Day: February 11, 2011

The State of the Unions IFRL-Mindiv-rawpixel-id-323098

The State of the Unions

Erik Kain February 11, 2011

Last week Conor linked to this Reason piece on California’s pension crisis and that state’s looming budget...

Egypt is free? IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-rijks.landscape-with-waterfall-40

Egypt is free?

Erik Kain February 11, 2011

Surprising news after yesterday’s speech from Hosni Mubarak: President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt turned over all power...

Searching for Oskar Schindler IFRL-Plague-Microscope

Searching for Oskar Schindler

Guest Authors February 11, 2011

by Christopher Carr I considered titling this post a more academic “Rejoinders to a Utilitarian Framework for...

How Not to Read with Charity IFRL-NaPP-Retro-France_in_XXI_Century._Race_in_Pacific

How Not to Read with Charity

Jason Kuznicki February 11, 2011

Brad DeLong is a seemingly limitless source of uncharitable readings. He doesn’t disappoint in his latest:

Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Residence Attacked, Suspect ArrestedFor what it's worth, I think that the guy is a nutcase who has mental health problems and has, for s…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Residence Attacked, Suspect ArrestedAnd there you go. As fun as it was to think he was a stawman villain we want to oppose and proving w…
Jaybird in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025You know, the first thing I thought of? The "don't tase me bro" incident. Anyway, the heckler's veto…
Jaybird in reply to pillsy on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaOH THIS ONE! Yeah, you're right. I didn't say "Trump is not even lying, he's going to disappoint you…
Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Any of our free speech absolutists want to weigh in on MTG having her constituents removed and tased…
pillsy in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaI think the sports metaphor is a very bad one To the extent that it holds, it would, I think, matter…
Slade the Leveller in reply to Dark Matter on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaIf you're referring to the one that existed back in the early Obama years, it lasted all of 2 months…
InMD in reply to pillsy on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaI can't speak for Jaybird or any other commenters but my goal is to defeat them. In sports losing to…
pillsy in reply to Jaybird on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaFor some reason the link I included to a piece he wrote in November endorsing Trump didn't come thro…
Jaybird in reply to pillsy on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaHas he shown up recently? I admit, I kinda wrote Koz off back during Obama's first term when he was…