Another day, another lesson in etiquette
It seems like I learn something new and useful every day. Today I learned that people don't like it when you post their personal emails ...
A different way to look at the horse race
Polls continue to shift in Obama's favor . However, if you take a look at CNN's Electoral College Map , a slightly more worrying pic...
Bob Barr is right
What George Bush has done is, in fact, to tear at the very fabric of our Constitutional government .
Peggage
Commenter Junkfarm asks: Noah: Knowing next to nothing about economics, let me ask you: what is the economic rationale in having a foreign c...
The creative "minimum"?
For those who, like me, are both concerned and angry over our government's Soviet-esque policy of turning away qualified foreign workers...
Idle speculation
Every man a king
Ezra Klein has a great post about the downsides of homeownership , and how our government's policies have pushed too many people to igno...
Money money money makes the world go 'round
Matt Yglesias and Kathy G. link to an old Krugman article that they claim tells you "everything you need to know about macroeconomic...
Morons, your bus is leaving!
Matt Yglesias marvels at the perfidy of the Bush administration's push for drilling in ANWR. He very rightly points out that ANWR drill...
Gloomy Gussage
Matt Yglesias identifies a new "neo-contrarian" position on global warming - it's happening, but there's no real possibil...
Obama in person
I was at Obama's speech in Detroit last night, and I was absolutely blown away. As a speaker, he's even better than Bill Clinton, wh...
I love America
I'm sitting up watching Fox News again, something I've done since 2002 when I've felt out of sorts. There's something very c...
No more Mr.
"Mr. Noah" is what my physics teacher called me in high school. When I first put that up on my blog, it sounded kind of cute as a ...
Obamanomics: What's the Big Idea?
David Ignatius wants to know Obama's Big Economic Idea: [W]ill Obama's domestic economic agenda also be exciting and visionary? Wil...
Yay for high oil prices
Nick Welsh at the Santa Barbara Independent wonders : In this whole oil price scandal , I find myself sadly bereft of a team to root for. Do...
Hackonomists
A lot of liberal bloggers (e.g. Steve Clemons and Ezra Klein ) are annoyed at Obama for choosing Jason Furman, a centrist business-school p...
Obamanomics is fine by me
Steve Clemons at TPMCafe worries that Obama's team of economic advisors is too "neoliberal" (i.e., believes too much in marke...
We want communism!
Last night I was flipping through channels, and I noticed Lou Dobbs AND Glenn Beck's stand-in both complaining about high gas prices, an...
Wanted: Obamanomics
Newsweek has a decent article about the recession . To make a long story short, this one's probably going to last a while: maybe as long...
Gas prices vs. American aggression, cont.
So that's why Indian business is so strong
The new chairman of the Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management in northern India is...well... see for yourself . Good thin...
The flat world ain't so flat no more
When Thomas Friedman coined the horribly dumb-sounding metaphor of the "flat world," he just meant that transport costs were comi...
The Needham Question
The Economist reviews a biography of Joseph Needham, the quirky British scientist and historian who obsessed over the question of why Chine...
Unity ticket my arse!
After refusing to gracefully spare the Democratic party two months of pain, Hillary " The Deranged Narcissist " Clinton was finall...
Growth is Good: Obama edition
Ezra Klein may not think much of WaPo columnist Sebastian Mallaby, but I've gotta say, the man occasionally comes out with a truly exce...
Also, no hurricane has ever been policed away
Jollygreen alerts me to an article in which Britain's Hugh Orde, police chief in Northern Ireland, says Britain should talk to al-Qaeda ...
Or we could be smart...
The WaPo reports that pro-American sentiment is on the upswing in Iran again, as people realize that Ahmadinejad and his gang of Revolution...
