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Fresh Dispatches From The Culture Wars
What We Talk About When We Talk About Drones
May 24th, 2013
So on Thursday, May 23rd 2013, President Obama made this speech. It's a good speech. I agree with quite a lot of it (by no means all of it.[...]
Ken White Knows Who The Real Bullies Are
May 22nd, 2013
Los Angeles Deputy DA John Patrick Frey aka @Patterico posted unredacted documents (.PDF) at his blog revealing Nadia Naffe’s personal and[...]
Not Your Personal Army: How Unite Blue Ignited A War With Anonymous And Then Tried To Blame Their Critics
May 15th, 2013
The Anonymous hacktivist collective likes to say they are Not Your Personal Army (NYPA), meaning they do not care about your petty dramas [...]
Moments Brought To You By #StopRush: Limbaugh's New Contract
May 6th, 2013
Even after admitting that #StopRush has ruined his advertiser base, Rush Limbaugh is deflecting blame for the resulting losses at Cumulus [...]
Cancer Truthers Become Kiddie Porn Defenders
May 1st, 2013
After a period of relative silence in the wake of the Cancer Truthers post, several proud participants in the @Shoq Twitter brigade have f[...]
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Category Archives: deficit spending
Morning Awful: Sluggish Private Hiring
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Share the post “Morning Awful: Sluggish Private Hiring”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailRemember how cutting corporate and high-end personal income taxes to their lowest level in fifty years was going to create bazillions of jobs through the magic power of Laffer curves? Like so much … Continue reading
Budget Blowhards
Share the post “Budget Blowhards”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSo the House GOP is already breaking that campaign pledge to cut $100 billion in “waste”: On Tuesday, aides to Mr. Ryan and Mr. Boehner blamed Democrats’ failure to pass the regular appropriations bills for fiscal … Continue reading
Another 1937
Share the post “Another 1937″FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Recovery from Depression was going just fine until 1937, when conservatives convinced FDR to cut spending and raise interest rates — not because markets needed the actions, but because they assumed markets would eventually want … Continue reading
Debt Fearmongery
Share the post “Debt Fearmongery”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Financial Times takes a look at sovereign debt and concludes: The US does look vulnerable, but given that it has a reserve currency, it can use this to manage its funding problems. Its external debt … Continue reading
Wheat-From-Chaff: Deficit Reduction
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Share the post “Wheat-From-Chaff: Deficit Reduction”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The chaff is settling. If the Democrats cannot muster a 60-vote majority in the Senate then they must pursue majority rule; Evan Bayh has chosen not to take part in that. Meanwhile, the GOP’s … Continue reading
Bipartisanship and Budget Hawking
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Share the post “Bipartisanship and Budget Hawking”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail More 11-Dimensional Chess to drive the left batty: The bipartisan 18-member panel backed by Obama would study the issue for much of the year and, if 14 members agree, report a deficit reduction … Continue reading
Exploiting Economic Ignorance
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Share the post “Exploiting Economic Ignorance”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailaTimothy Egan of the New York Times describes the rhetoric of a tea party pundit: Who is Williams? A garden variety demagogue who calls Obama “an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug” and the Democratic party … Continue reading
Which Party Is Fiscally Responsible?
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Share the post “Which Party Is Fiscally Responsible?”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Public debt under Reagan was about $200 billion. Under Bush I, it was about $300 billion. Under Bush 2, it skyrocketed to $482 billion — after starting with the $200 billion surplus … Continue reading
Of Patriots and Taxes
Share the post “Of Patriots and Taxes”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailPatriotism then: Patriotism now:
Selling Iran, Part 3
Share the post “Selling Iran, Part 3″FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail ‘Iran is a crazy country, run by a new Hitler, who is building nuclear weapons to destroy the United States and Israel.’ That is the essence of the White House marketing campaign to … Continue reading





