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BIDEN AND PALIN DEBATE
Matt Yglesias observed earlier this week that Sarah Palin tends to do fine in situations where she can pivot from the question to her own talking points and a cobweb of faux-folksy generalities. She d… more →
Little Wild Bouquet
100 Best Last Lines from Novels
wiedemar wrote 1 day ago: Matt Yglesias, who first pointed me to this list of the 100 Best Last Lines of Novels [PDF], complai … more →
Weekend Reading/Viewing Laundry List (12/18/09)
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noompa wrote 2 days ago: I plan on finishing up Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail over the weekend; I’m trying to pair som … more →
Are You Willing To Cause The Death of Hundreds of Thousands of People?
Kyle wrote 4 days ago: Probably. According to Ezra Klein, Yglesias, et al. As you can probably tell, I take issue with the … more →
Sentence of the day
Ben wrote 3 weeks ago: “To the best of my understanding, nothing is stopping Rahm Emannuel from sauntering onto the f … more →
Letting the Sick Die on the Street
Tim Kowal wrote 1 month ago: Jeffrey Miron defends his view, as recapitulated by Matt Yglesias, that government health care is no … more →
Trading Democracy for Aristocracy
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Tim Kowal wrote 1 month ago: Bill Clinton said something today on the health care bill that made me shudder: “The point I w … more →
A Follow Up On Yglesias
Kyle wrote 2 months ago: I tagged him with Katrina Vanden Heuvel because of the implications made in his comment on airport s … more →
Progressive Framing on Afghanistan
Kyle wrote 2 months ago: What to do in or with Afghanistan is a tough, tough decision. There will be costs, high costs, body … more →
The ESPN Zone of Empires
wiedemar wrote 3 months ago: Meanderings appreciates metaphors from all corners of the writing world, including political punditr … more →
Why Are Politicians Amoral Pimps?
Dwight Furrow wrote 3 months ago: They aren’t, at least no more so than the rest of us. Matt Yglesias laments: …I’ve come to be increa … more →
'The Inheritance of Education'
Ariel Goldring wrote 3 months ago: From Marginal Revolution: Economix posted a graph showing a strong positive correlation between SAT … more →
Brad DeLong's Health Care Proposal
Tim Kowal wrote 3 months ago: I left this comment over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen regarding Brad DeLong’s health ca … more →
Never Bring A Knife to A Gunfight
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mpharris wrote 4 months ago: Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein, two of the unofficial leaders of the D.C. blogosphere and celebrities … more →
Why Government Rationing Matters
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Kevin Waterman wrote 4 months ago: Matt Yglesias recently posited the following question: Meanwhile, as with all anti-rationing talk yo … more →
A Little Logic Goes A Long Way
Kevin Waterman wrote 4 months ago: Matt Yglesias is taking issue with the complaints over the numerous czars in the Obama administratio … more →
Structural Activism vs. Policy Activism
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Will Chamberlain wrote 4 months ago: Jacob Lyles’ seminal post on the distinction between structural libertarianism and policy libe … more →
Exactly What We Predicted Would Happen
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Kevin Waterman wrote 4 months ago: Government is shutting down private health insurance. President Obama told us it wouldn’t happ … more →
Secretary Gates: Wasteful Defense Spending Hurts Troops
Phil wrote 5 months ago: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates makes an excellent point about the pork projects included in defen … more →
Jay Z's Geopolitical Brain
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Michael wrote 5 months ago: Matt Yglesias had a post yesterday quoting Mark Lynch’s amusing discussion of the feud between … more →
