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Overlearning Lessons IFRL-Plague-Exercise5

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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Obama and The (Quasi?)Imperial Presidency IFRL-Mindiv-jack-sharp-1219921-unsplash

Obama and The (Quasi?)Imperial Presidency

Chris Dierkes February 25, 2009
The always worth reading Charlie Savage had a really important piece in the NyTimes four days ago...
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Sad news

Erik Kain February 25, 2009
Very sad news out of the UK today: Ivan Cameron, the son of U.K. Conservative Party leader...
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Around the Web on Ash Wednesday IFRL-NaPP-Asia-Hirosage-TempleGrounds

Around the Web on Ash Wednesday

Erik Kain February 25, 2009
Rod Dreher: Warm wishes to you all, and prayers for a blessed Lent. I don’t know about...
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Brooks on Jindal

Chris Dierkes February 25, 2009
D. Brooks for me is hot/cold–when he’s on he’s on, when he’s off he’s off.  Here he...
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Derbyshire and the Happy Meal Conservatives IFRL-NaPP-Asia-rawpixel-id-461110

Derbyshire and the Happy Meal Conservatives

Erik Kain February 25, 2009
Much as their blind loyalty discredited the Right, perhaps the worst effect of Limbaugh et al. has...
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Jindal: debt is bad when we say it is IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-vangogh.seascape-near-les-saintes-maries-de-la-mer-46

Jindal: debt is bad when we say it is

Freddie February 25, 2009
I’m open to hearing a defense of Bobby Jindal from Matt Yglesias’s allegations. But I am having...
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quote of the day

Erik Kain February 24, 2009
The only thing that is not settled, as far as I can tell, is how much damage...
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Grow your own? IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-35509225640_966a10002a_o

Grow your own?

Erik Kain February 24, 2009
Regarding the “grow your own policy” Mark Kleiman proposes, I have to say this is a very...
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Balance Sheet Recession IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-nationalgallery.landscape-with-a-footbridge-16

Balance Sheet Recession

Erik Kain February 24, 2009
So I was listening to NPR this morning and a Japanese economist was talking about their “lost...
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Quick Hit Financial Blogging… IFRL-TLC-War-bart-christiaanse-1246912-unsplash

Quick Hit Financial Blogging…

Dave February 23, 2009
If anyone hasn’t noticed this about using the Fed as part of a bad bank strategy: John Ryding,...
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Happy Lundi Gras! IFRL-TLC-War-marija-zaric-1135157-unsplash

Happy Lundi Gras!

Erik Kain February 23, 2009
So today is Lundi Gras, better known as the day before Mardi Gras and the second to...
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blogging

Erik Kain February 23, 2009
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The Final Word on Liber-al-tarianism IFRL-Plague-DoctorConductor

The Final Word on Liber-al-tarianism

Mark of New Jersey February 23, 2009
I honestly thought I was done on this topic, and for the most part I am.  But...
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the moderating influence of the technocratic Republican IFRL-NaPP-Space-rawpixel-id-418597

the moderating influence of the technocratic Republican

Freddie February 23, 2009
Predictions are a mugs game, and mine are worse than most, so take this with a grain...
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can I just say… IFRL-TLC-Scenery-brandon-nelson-675921-unsplash

can I just say…

Freddie February 23, 2009
I understand that there are arguments to be made against the practice of talking politics at award...
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reflections

Erik Kain February 23, 2009
Sometimes I’m overwhelmed with this sense that all of this is an exercise in futility – that...
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Jonah Sermon IFRL-NaPP-Space-rawpixel-id-441476

Jonah Sermon

Chris Dierkes February 22, 2009
In my alter ego, I’m studying to be a priest in the Anglican Church.  With The League’s...
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Sunday Poem

Freddie February 22, 2009
Lament by Rainer Maria Rilke Everything is far and long gone by. I think that the star...
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