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pbs doc: inside the meltdown

Chris Dierkes March 3, 2009
Cheerful viewing.  This is the recent PBS Frontline Documentary on the financial implosion.  It’s got some heavy...
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quote of the day

Erik Kain March 2, 2009
“Conservatives seem to have spent the last year rapidly regressing from cheering on lame politicians who could...
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you can’t support the labor movement and illegal immigration

Freddie March 2, 2009
Erik’s post on protectionism has me thinking about another kind of protectionism, the one about illegal immigration...
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Protectionism and National Security

Erik Kain March 2, 2009
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that...
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Liberal First Principles

Chris Dierkes March 2, 2009
Freddie writes: Look, I think the important question remains whether or not Kaus’s work is to the...
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Hollow Men

Freddie March 1, 2009
This is how a movement ends… this is how a movement ends…. Not with a bang, but...
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Sunday Poem

Freddie March 1, 2009
P The Creation of Sound by Wallace Stevens If the poetry of X was music, So that...
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Focus, People, Focus!

Mark of New Jersey February 28, 2009
Cornell law professor Michael Dorf has a great take on the hilarious NYU student “takeover,” and its...
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The GOP’s Road to Relevance

Mark of New Jersey February 28, 2009
Kyle’s post yesterday the other day about the need for the GOP to stop focusing on “how”...
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mea culpa, and explanations

Freddie February 28, 2009
An emailer wrote me last night, in regards to the Bloggingheads clip, to say that I “owe...
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Blogging heads, Kaus, and the League

Erik Kain February 28, 2009
Thanks to Will for the heads up…
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Stress testing stressing me out…

Dave February 27, 2009
Via Barry Ritholtz, I think I need to read David Reilly more.  I love his column on...
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Finding Your Way Out Of The Wilderness: Republicans Are Doing It Wrong

Guest Authors February 26, 2009
by Kyle Moore This post is crossposted from Comments From Left Field.  As such, I apologize in...
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quote of the day

Erik Kain February 26, 2009
I’ve found that those who defend Bernanke as having inherited Greenspan’s mess are most likely to have...
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From the Dept. of Potentially Questionable Assumptions

Chris Dierkes February 26, 2009
From the NyTimes on Obama’s new budget proposal: “Having inherited a trillion-dollar deficit that will take a...
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away from Joe=towards success?

Freddie February 26, 2009
Reihan links approvingly to this piece  by Patrick Ruffini, as does James. It’s well-written, smart, as Ruffini’s...
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my blog post titles demonstrate my ironic detachment and caustic verve

Freddie February 26, 2009
You really do have to wonder, at this point, if there’s ever a time when the average...
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Thursday Art Walk

Erik Kain February 26, 2009
The Wheel of Fortune by Edward Burne-Jones
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Overlearning Lessons

Mark of New Jersey February 26, 2009
I’m a big fan of Scott’s post the other day on neo-conservatism, which I take to be...
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Bobby Jindal – as terrible as everybody else

Erik Kain February 25, 2009
So, meandering around the web today one comes across almost universal consensus that Bobby Jindal’s speech was...
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