Daily Archive: October 2, 2012

/// October 2, 2012

The Failures of Neoliberalism

When confronted with failure, there’s a familiar retort that emanates from both extremes of the political spectrum: their prescriptions simply “haven’t been tried.” There were some complicating factors which scuttled the whole thing, or...

Guest Authors

/// October 2, 2012

Mitt Romney for President

by Koz Reading some of the recent posts, some of Tod’s and one of Burt’s in particular, the disconnect between the League and the Romney campaign is frustrating. I wasn’t happy about the 47%...

Elias Isquith

/// October 2, 2012

While David Brooks Is Not Mitt Romney, He Very Much Remains David Brooks

Have you seen today’s David Brooks op-ed yet? It’s a little weird; but, then again, he’s been a little weird ever since the campaign began in earnest (and, not incidentally, Romney began losing). In...

Mike Dwyer

/// October 2, 2012

The Future of Gun Ownership

Field & Stream’s Gun Nuts blog has been covering (here and here) the recent story of Defense Distributed, a group seeking to create the first 3-D printable gun. Defense Distributed has coined this project...

Tod Kelly

/// October 2, 2012

On why tomorrow night’s debate won’t affect the election

Over the next 72 hours, much of the news media and political blogosphere is going to be devoted to tomorrow night’s Big Debate, as Romney and Obama finally go mano y mano. The coverage...

Ethan Gach

/// October 2, 2012

Actually, Re-Writing History Is a Bit More Complicated

So what can the 2000 election, and subsequent events, tell us about how we cast our votes for President in 2012? That’s the rhetorical question Kevin Drum asks as a way to set up...

Burt Likko

/// October 2, 2012

Week Four Roundup

The regular refs are back. They’re making bad calls just like the scabs did, but at least they aren’t deciding whole games. This, however, has not helped out my fantasy team one little bit....