"Republicans soak the rich (and you)" update
"Conservative" columnist: Republicans f***ed up and are f***ed up
David Brooks of the New York Times is a "conservative" columnist, so his job is to write good things about Republicans (otherwise ...
Soak the rich
Today, House Republicans scuttled the financial bailout bill . In response, the Dow plunged by 777 points, its biggest one-day loss in histo...
Electoral reality
A plan for America: more Macacas, please!
Two years ago, up-and-coming Republican George Allen threw away his political career when he called an Indian-American member of his audienc...
Obama wins debate
John McCain: The man is mad.
Good point
Via Brad DeLong, a good point about the proposed bailout: Assume the govt. borrows money at 4% interest to finance the bailout. Now suppose...
A new idea for a bailout
Matt Yglesias may be onto something here . The financial crisis is based on the housing crisis. All, or nearly all, of the "toxic waste...
George Will is full of it
George Will: "This is one reason conservatives regret the growth of government: It entails supplanting the rule of law -- laws written ...
This has GOT to be a joke
John McCain "suspended" his campaign for the presidency today, in order to "work on the financial crisis" in Washington...
You can have your 5 back, now give me back my two 10s
Investment banks (also called "broker-dealers") were at the center of the current financial crisis. They were the lynchpin of the ...
My Republican hero
College Station, Texas - my hometown - is a famously conservative town. George Bush Drive runs right through the center of town, right down ...
Articles to read
Some people have complained that the finance industry has been sucking in far too many of America's best and brightest, moving them from...
Trantor
In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, Trantor is the capital of the Galactic Empire, a planet-sized megacity of a hundred billion. But,...
Party politics
At a party last night, I asked a guy (white, late 20s, public school history teacher) if he was a Democrat or a Republican. He said that alt...
The lipstick is coming off the turkey...er, pig
Culture be danged
Education policy post of the day , courtesy of Paul Tough: [A major question about education policy] is one that [historian Diane] Ravitch r...
Where the hell is Obama? (financial meltdown edition)
How on Earth is it that John McCain is the first to come out with a bold proposal to reform the financial system? Forget about the fact tha...
Not so fascist
In the Washington Times, Bruce Fein draws an implict parallel between the U.S. and Rome. Our country, he claims, is transitioning from a de...
Nation of whiners, redux
I don't like Ike
Our next Vice President
Yesterday, Sarah Palin said she's ready to fight a war with Russia , claimed Iraq carried out the 9/11 attacks , and, when asked, had no...
Today's #1 threat: BEARS!!!
More news from the eternal war between man and bear: The bears attacked on water , launching a deep-water ambush of a human naval vessel. Fo...
Yuan a debate?
The only thing saving the U.S. from falling into a steep recession right now is the export boom . The falling dollar has made American goods...
Just couldn't wait
A teenage girl in India killed herself today over fears that the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland will destroy the world. Talk about im...
My dad was right
I've always been a hypochondriac. When I was a kid, you name it, I was scared of it - ebola, cholera, tetanus, electrocution, serial kil...
Revenge of the Tards
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The ownership society
The long-term growth rate of U.S. stock prices (S&P 500) is historically about 10% per year. On average, if your money was invested in t...
The "O" in GOP
David Frum, a conservative writer, has written maybe the best column I've seen on America's changing partisan demographics . On ineq...
the speech
The Youtes
Maslow and the Culture Wars
Back, y'all! Here's a post from Matt Yglesias : [Many liberals subscribe to an image] of low-income people hoodwinked into backing t...
